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| Foods | Excessive protein? | Dec 16 2006 02:14 (UTC) |
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| Yes. It's correct. Here are 3 sources that confirm. There are more but this should suffice.
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/tutorial_gram. html http://www.nutristrategy.com/nutrition/calori es.htm http://www.umass.edu/diningservices/nutrition /alcohol.html |
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| Foods | salmon | Dec 15 2006 18:14 (UTC) |
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| This is why I use a purified fish oil | |||
| Foods | IBS and Reflux | Dec 15 2006 16:52 (UTC) |
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| I know of a lot of people who swear by probiotics (acidophilus/bifidus). Be sure to get one that guarantees DELIVERY of live bacteria. | |||
| Foods | salmon | Dec 15 2006 16:46 (UTC) |
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| It's the Atlantic Farm Raised Salmon that you want to AVOID!
Because of the growing conditions, the toxins are compounded. It is recommended that adults only consume 1/2 portion of Altlantic Salmon per month. Children are advised to not eat it AT ALL. The best is the wild salmon, sockeye included. "Atlantic salmon are farmed in large-scale, densely stocked netpen facilities. Fish often escape, and can compete for resources, breed with, or spread parasites to wild fish. Salmon farms allow feces, excess feed, and any chemicals used to flow freely into surrounding waters. " "Consumption advisory due to PCBs, dioxins and pesticides" "Limit to less than one meal per month. These advisories are for women ages 18-75, based on a body weight of 144 pounds (65.4 kilograms) and a meal size of 6 ounces (a little more than 1/3 pound) of fish before cooking. For advisories due to mercury, this advice is intended to protect women of childbearing age and errs on the side of safety for older women." http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=fis hpage&fish=85 Best and Worst Seafood Choices: http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=bes tandworst |
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| Foods | Is 94% fat free microwave popcorn a bad food decision? | Dec 15 2006 16:35 (UTC) |
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| I don't do popcorn (except on special occasions) because it's high glycemic (along with pretzles and rice cakes). It zaps my energy and makes me crave other foods. | |||
| Foods | Best snack bars..? | Dec 15 2006 16:33 (UTC) |
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I vote for Cinch bars
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| Foods | Excessive protein? | Dec 15 2006 16:30 (UTC) |
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To be specific...
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| Foods | Help! I'm always hungry! Need suggestions. | Dec 15 2006 16:26 (UTC) |
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| More protein helps to shut off the hunger mechanism.
Another tip is to avoid artificial sweeteners. It gets your body revved up for sweets and then they aren't there, and then you need something to fix the prob. Another tip is to avoid MSG. It's unfortunately in nearly everything and is an appetite enhancer. Stay away from prepared foods and buy meats that are "natural". The other meats are injected with all kinds of stuff. Remember, the food business wants you to eat MORE because they sell more. Buy organic. Beleive it or not, certain pesticides are also appetite enhancers. Try it for a week and see what happens. If you eat less then it really won't cost you more to eat that way. |
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| Foods | Cheese = Calorie offender?? | Dec 15 2006 16:21 (UTC) |
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| I don't worry about whether it's reduced fat cheese or not. The Swiss eat all kinds of cheese and they are SKINNY! So I don't buy into that.
What I really like though, is a strong, flavorful cheese and then it is much more satisfying with just a little bit and you don't need as much when you cook with it because of the flavor intensity. |
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| Health & Support | Supplements | Dec 15 2006 16:11 (UTC) |
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| p001: I take vitamins because the food supply in the USA is horrible. After spending 3 1/2 years in Switzerland and coming back here, I could hardly enter a grocery store because the stench is so bad. You get used to it, but the produce has no flavor, it's force ripened and radiated. Your body can feel the difference.
Also, if a computer cannot design a diet that has 100% DV of all nutrients for a 1200 cal diet, I certainly can't. It's nutritional insurance. I have more energy, I think more clearly, I handle stress better, my skin, hair and nails are better. And besides, studies show that Americans are deficient or depleted in one or more nutrients. How about this: Vitamin D deficiency statistics:
Here is another on vitamin C: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerende r.fcgi?artid=1448351 This is why I use vitamins. |
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| Health & Support | Supplements | Dec 15 2006 15:55 (UTC) |
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| I take a multi with a glucose regulator and thermogenic, green tea, calcium with magnesium, iron with c, b-complex, vitamin-c, vitamin-e.
I also use meal replacements that have about 24 grams of protein each and are packed with Leucine. |
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| Weight Loss | why is my friend skinny and they do nothing? | Dec 15 2006 15:52 (UTC) |
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| Believe me, it will catch up with her. And weight isn't everything. Focus on size. The little gymnasts on TV are REALLY heavy because they are solid muscle, but they look great. I'll bet you have more muscle and stronger bones. Don't get over obsessed with the scale. | |||
| Weight Loss | Protein bar recommendation? | Dec 15 2006 15:49 (UTC) |
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| I like Shaklee's Cinch bars. They're crunchy, 10 gms of protein, low glycemic (which would be excellent for the diabetes issue) and only 1 gm of saturated fat. And no artificial sweeteners, if that is important to you.
The lemon cranberry is really popular. They give you your money back if you're not happy, too. I'd check them out. Here's where I get mine: http://www.shaklee.net/planb/product/20379 |
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| Foods | Splenda, 100 scientific, none biased studies show.. | Nov 28 2006 23:20 (UTC) |
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| I can't put the links in just now. just go to pubmed org and do a search for sucralose and they should come right up. | |||
| Foods | Splenda, 100 scientific, none biased studies show.. | Nov 28 2006 04:43 (UTC) |
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| These are interesting. I did a search for sucralose on pubmed.
Headache. 2006 Sep;46(8):1303-4. Popular sweetner sucralose as a migraine trigger. Department of Internal Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA, USA. Sucralose (trichlorogalactosucrose, or better known as Splenda) is an artificial sweetener from native sucrose that was approved by the FDA on April 1, 1998 (April Fool's Day). This observation of a potential causal relationship between sucralose and migraines may be important for physicians to remember this can be a possible trigger during dietary history taking. Identifying further triggers for migraine headaches, in this case sucralose, may help alleviate some of the cost burden (through expensive medical therapy or missed work opportunity) as well as provide relief to migraineurs. ***** Headache. 2006 Mar;46(3):515-7. Migraine triggered by sucralose--a case report. Department of Neurology, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Sucralose is the active compound of the most commonly sold sweetener in the United States. Different than aspartame, sucralose is not considered to be a migraine trigger. Herein we report a patient with attacks of migraine consistently triggered by sucralose. She also suffers from menstrually related migraine that had been well-controlled for several months since she switched her contraceptive from fixed estrogen to triphasic contraceptive pills. Some attacks triggered by sucralose were preceded by aura, and she had never experienced migraine with aura before. Withdrawal of the compound was associated with complete resolution of the attacks. Single-blind exposure (vs. sugar) triggered the attacks, after an attack-free period. ***** |
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| Weight Loss | Did you gain? | Nov 27 2006 23:58 (UTC) |
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| Just weighed today and nope, didn't gain. Whew!! (Didn't lose either LOL) | |||
| Weight Loss | Chinese Tea | Nov 18 2006 05:06 (UTC) |
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| I use a combo of the green Matcha tea with red and white teas. It works really great for me. | |||
| Fitness | percentage of body fat. | Nov 17 2006 03:57 (UTC) |
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| Could be muscle loss | |||
| Weight Loss | Muscles and metabolism | Nov 17 2006 03:54 (UTC) |
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| Part of what happens when calories are restricted is that the body will burn protein, including muscle. It is common to lose 5 lbs of muscle when dieting.
When your calories are as low as you have them, your body will slow itself down in order to to stay alive. Keep in mind that your brain will consume 500-600 calories a day and that is in glucose. So it's possible that on a low carb diet, you're barely getting enough to feed your brain. The other problem is that if your calories are under 1200, it is impossible to get your minimum DV of nutrients without supplementation. The answer is no. Your body will cannibalize your muscles for fuel. |
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| Weight Loss | Metabolisim & Diet | Nov 17 2006 02:46 (UTC) |
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| Building muscle will increase your metabolism. A pound of muscle will burn 50 calories just by having it. Put on 5 lbs of muscle and you burn an extra 250 cal. :D | |||
| Weight Loss | Cheesecake Factory | Nov 17 2006 02:44 (UTC) |
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| Thai lettuce wraps for sure! Mmmmm mmm!!! | |||
| Health & Support | amenorrhea (females only please?) | Nov 17 2006 02:42 (UTC) |
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| If your fats are too low than your period can stop. Happened to a roommate of mine.
The other thing is that if calories are too low, your cycle can shut off too. I suspect it's the fats. Gotta have them, but too many people buy into this fat-free stuff and you can't make hormones and such if you don't have the right materials. Hope this helps. |
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| Weight Loss | chinese food and msg | Nov 12 2006 05:08 (UTC) |
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| I would log the approximate amount of veggies and oil.
MSG wouldn't have a significant number of calories. The problem with MSG is that it is an appetite enhancer and I know some people whose appestats just don't shut off when they eat food that contains it. One man told me that he literally hurts his stomach is so full, but he feels like he's starving. You really have to watch for it because it is in everything. If you have a problem with hunger or being able to easily stop eating, I highly recommend avoiding foods with MSG. |
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| Weight Loss | safflower oil and CLA | Nov 12 2006 05:04 (UTC) |
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| I've read that safflower oil is 75% linoleic acid - how much of that is conjugated I can't say. But using that number, to get 3 gms, you would probably need 4 gms of the safflower oil.
You can try it and see what happens. It sounds like you could use the extra fat, too. I also suggest that you use a cold-pressed, unrefined oil to preserve the natural goodness. Let us know how it works for you. |
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| Foods | Diet Coke? | Nov 02 2006 16:04 (UTC) |
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| True. But you have to deal with the cravings. You may be a really tough person, but for me... I'm a total wimp and I don't win out to cravings well.
If I know something is going to make me ravenous for that last chocolate chip in the cupboard... Heck I'm gonna avoid it!! Check this out. It's from: Sugar substitutes and the potential danger of Splenda Here is a quote, which may help explain the craving issue: "Basically, artificial sweeteners confuse your brain. The enzymes in your mouth begin a cascade that primes your cell receptors for an insulin surge, and when it doesn?t arrive your brain feels cheated. That?s why most diet sodas are loaded with caffeine ? so you?ll still feel a jolt. But even if your brain is distracted momentarily, soon enough it wants the energy boost you promised it ? and you find yourself craving carbohydrates. In one study, people who used artificial sweeteners ate up to three times the amount of calories as the control group. But again, this is individual. It all comes down to the brain?s perception of calories, which can get thrown off whenever artificial ingredients are substituted for whole food." What is working for me is to eat things that
One more thing... Here was a kicker for me... my mom was on an airplane and sat next to a man whose son was a brain surgeon. The man said that his son could tell who used artificial sweeteners and who didn't, simply by the appearance of the brain. Eeww. |
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| Foods | Diet Coke? | Nov 01 2006 22:41 (UTC) |
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| I stand corrected as I should have said, "is linked to" rather than "causes".
Either way, it's a habit worth kicking, especially when you read page one of the article you posted, Overweight Risk Soars 41% With Each Daily Can of Diet Soft Drink The last paragraph on page 3 is also interesting, "People think they can just fool the body. But maybe the body isn't fooled," she says. "If you are not giving your body those calories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite." [bolding added for emphasis] |
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| Weight Loss | Bad habit of weighing yourself every day! | Nov 01 2006 18:37 (UTC) |
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| I bought a tape measure and it's way more accurate for me. Weighing can make you crazy because there are so many factors other than fat that can influence your weight.
Scales are great for a general measure, but like the stock market it will go up and down and up and down, but headed in a general direction. It's not worth the emotional craziness. You can give it up! |
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| Foods | It's official.. | Nov 01 2006 18:31 (UTC) |
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| I suggest that if you give in, pay attention to the crummy feeling in your stomach, the sugar headache, the nasty aftertaste and so forth and ask yourself, "What on earth was I thining? Blech!" It will help to set yourself up so that next time you will be more likely to look at it and say EEEWWW! | |||
| Foods | Diet Coke? | Nov 01 2006 18:17 (UTC) |
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| Another problem with diet soda is that a study has shown that diet soda causes MORE weight gain than regular.
My understanding is that it still triggers an insulin response and you get cravings and end up pounding down a couple of candy bars to regulate your blood sugar. Soda is just bad stuff. I know of a lot of people who have lost weight just by cutting it out. |
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| Foods | Any low calorie but STOMACH FILLING food? | Nov 01 2006 18:14 (UTC) |
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| A handful of cashews does it for me right now. May seem like extra calories, but if it keeps you from devouring a heck of a lot more, that's what you want. | |||
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