Sweet.
CELERY HERE WE COME.

Eating fatty food appears to take an almost immediate toll on both short-term memory and exercise performance

SO if you are fat you cant exercise.. ok
um

but I ont believe it affects the memory.. I mean um... crap what was I talking about ?

Exercising won't make you lose weight.

it won't get you in shape either :P

It's good for you. It just won't burn off your overall weight.

That's not true, unless you eat eat more than you work out. The body uses glucides as a primary energy source, and lipids/fat when there are none available. Of course everything you do requires a certain amount of energy, even reading does, which is why dieting helps you lose weight as well, and is essential to people who have relatively bad eating habits. Working out speeds up the process.

I can sit on my ass, eat, and not gain weight. I knew a gal that barely ate anything, worked out daily, and could not lose weight. She seemed to live by photosynthesis, I think.

Metabolism is the biggest factor in weight loss. and A LOT of people don't know that, and also don't understand it as it is very dependent on daily living and genetics. Depending on ones metabolism gaining and losing weight can be easy or difficult.
You are lucky in that your metabolism is stabilized such that you can sit on your ass and not gain weight. Your friend did not lose weight because regardless of how much she worked out her metabolism was at a point where it would not allow her to. Eating nothing and working out daily does not work. By not eating anything your body goes into "starvation" mode where it sucks up all the fat and calories it can and does its best to not expend them regardless of work done. If her daily diet was a good 5 small meals a day at around 1800-2400 calories per day, with a workout regiment that burned approximately 600-1200 calories every day for a 3 day workout regiment I guarantee she would lose weight.

I am a college Decathlete at 5'7 and 165 lbs with 5% body fat. According to the BMI I am over weight but with 5% body fat im technically skinnier than 85% of Americans.
In may I was 175lbs and around 6 or 7% body fat. My diet was not sufficient for the workouts I was doing (a normal workout for me burns around 1000 to 1500 calories) but since my diet was shit I would not lose weight. I changed my diet and workout schedule to match the one seen above. I lost the 10 lbs in 1 month.

Saying that working out will not help you lose weight is complete udder bullshit that Diet buffs want you to believe so they can make money. either that or its just a huge ploy being thrown into the public to push people to eat better regardless of what they do for a workout as many think that just because they workout they can eat whatever shit they want. The same is true for the exercise buffs.

The truth is that 90% of all diets fail without proper exercise and 90% of the effort put into exercise goes to waste without proper diet. Health experts have been saying this for decades. PROPER DIET AND EXERCISE. Never one without the other. Your metabolism is regulated a LOT by the two and that is why they are so important. The next biggest factor as said before is genetics but with proper diet and exercise your metabolism can and will change to promote weight loss or weight gain depending on your goal. The biggest proof I can point out for this is the show "the biggest loser" As these are normal people who undergo a HUGE overhaul towards daily exercise and diet and end up losing huge amounts of weight.

For almost everyone, the amount of energy taken in by eating far outweighs the amount of energy expended during exercising. Your diet and caloric intake will have a much greater affect on your weight than exercising for an hour or two a few times a week.

It would really take a dumbass to think you can sit on your ass and eat all day while keeping a slim and healthy body. That certainly doesn't nullify the benefits of exercising on the body and mind.
As I said, every action you make requires a certain amount of energy, and most people underestimate the amount of calories you can burn by simply being less lazy and adopting better habits.
Unless you cut your calorie intake to the point of unhealthiness, there shouldn't a big difference between the effects of dieting and exercising in this context.
But I don't know, I don't go to McDonalds so the difference might be bigger for some of you.

now wait. Exercise 1) helps you sleep better 2) Helps you deal with streess better
3) will help you lose weight provided you (1) eat quality food and (2) work off and uSE more than you take in aka eat a diet of 1900 and use 2000

It does if you burn more calories than you consume.

You gain weight from foods full of fat?! No wai!!

Wont going cold-turkey actually screw with your body? I know it screwed with my g/f's psychology when she stopped eating carbs. Started to effect me too when I tried to do it. :c

~N~

not fat. Carbs probably would though :P

Ahh, okie ^_^

~N~

eating is for fat ppl

I've been interested in this ketosis thing for a while, but I wasn't sure how safe it was. Isn't it pretty much what the atkins diet is? I've known people who have cut out carbs from their diet, and they end up bruising very easily, although that might be to do with something else. Either way, if I was to get my body into ketosis-mode, would I be able to eat things with carbs in them ever again? or would that end up causing my body to leave ketosis-mode? XD

the trick is to alternate each week. 1 week no fat, 1 week no carb. That lets your liver deal with things easily. It also helps to go to bed between 11:00pm and 11:30pm. That's when your liver regenerates.

I have no idea on the back and forth thing, but the later is pure head-scratching WTF material...

there's a lot of weird stuff about the human body.

For example the fingers of your hands are the main regulators for the temperature of your organs. The membranes that contain the organs are flush with blood vessels that are also connected to the fingers. Cooling your hands will actually cool your entire body very efficiently. The US army has developed such cooling gloves and now similar devices are appearing on the consumer market, targeting athletes.

WTF-inducing meaning I'm pretty sure its false. Cells don't have clocks.

The hands aren't the normal cooling route BUT they have a lot of blood vessels, which are used for cooling in other mammals, so you can use them for it with some trickery. (the gloves you mention use a vacuum to pool blood in the hands, which doesn't happen naturally). Shivering and sweating are the main tempature regulators, blood flow changes usually only get involved when things get extreme (hypothermia).

there are gloves that just pump cool water across your hands as opposed to pooling blood. Just a little Fyi note :]
Also cells do have clocks, well maybe not a specific cell but a LOT of the scientific industry involved with other animals and even humans are pretty sure we have a "natural" clock within our systems that works through specific chemical flows in our bodies.
However to say the liver goes on and off at a certain time of day is a tad far fetched as it is very dependent on a persons natural clock. What is 11-11:30 to one may be 12-12:30 to another.
as an example of the bodies "natural" clock this is a little news post about how scientists are studying how daylight savings time screws with the bodies natural clock http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal.....k_1002532.html

Right, but circadian rhythms are not a "every day at 11:30" kind of thing.

I didn't mean it like that, but yes you are definitely right.

Cells may not have clocks but we do have a circadian rhythm. One that affects all of our organs and is timed to both the sun and our eating schedule.

I think the vacuum was used to accelerate the effect or to make the product more unique. After all if the vacuum effect wasn't involved in the device then there would be no reason to buy it since you could just use ice water :P

I was just reading about that on Slash Dot. :o
Makes sense for some reason. :/

More pressing question. How does it affect the libido?

Chicken and fish. o.o

And I dun mean KFC D:

Iiiinteresting. I've actually been curious about that very thing :P

I don't diet. If someone came to me and insured me that I could eat junk food and live for 10 years or eat healthy and live for 40, I would take the junk food. Life is too short not to be enjoying every aspect of it. I'm going to keep eating my Pizza and Triple Whoppers, I'll save the rabbit food for everyone else.

I've always felt this to be a really stupid justification. Is life so horrible that the only happiness can be derived from the momentary tastes of food? Or does the joy of experiencing life to its fullest extent somehow fail to compare to the taste of salt and sugar?

No one sits around eating junk food all day, well some do, but that's not how I meant it. You go through the struggles of finding something to eat, I pretty much just walk into stores and buy whatever looks good. I don't need to check trans fats, or anything. That makes life a lot simpler and eating stuff that tastes good (as most junk food does) just makes life that little bit happier.

I don't like the taste of store-bought meals, most of the time with the low-quality ones it tastes too salty or too sweet, I can taste all the shit they put in it. Healthier meals are also much, much less tasty than homemade ones. Have people forgotten how to make their food themselves?

I pretty much just walk into the store and know EXACTLY what I need to get every time. After taking the time to see whats healthy or not the first time around every time after that is just as short if not shorter than a normal walk through the food store.

Life is too short, but you need to stop and smell the roses. It's a principle too many people are forgetting. It's not only about the amount of time, its also about the quality of it and by working towards both you ultimately will end up in a better position than a person who only works towards one of those principles.

Precisely. I hate the idea of my life being limited by the state of my body. I want to feel happy and healthy until the day I die, no matter how near or far that time may be.

As long as your diet is 100% sugar-free, it shouldn't be too bad to eat some grease from time to time... as long as it's not, y'know, the manufactured kind that you get in processed foods and instant meals.

Also, I bet 20 bucks that Kesarra weights at least over 250 pounds. *snickers*

Sugar in important to be healthy, so are lipids, just in moderation. I think they're pretty much everywhere anyway, just in different amounts and forms.

sugar is important to be healthy as it is a Carbohydrate but having too much will simply add to fat so moderation is in fact key. Also it is better to have natural sugars than table sugar and high fructose.
So I guess im just adding to what you've already said ^^

Yeah, but I tend to consider carbohydrates and sugar as two different things, sugar being that white powder that takes two meters of cane for a single teaspoon. I don't mind the sugars found in fruits and vegetables as they're "natural", so to speak, but white sugar, as used in pastries and candy, should almost be banned.

Fructose has been said to be worse for health than glucose, though.
I use brown sugar myself so I don't know anything about it, I'll take your word for it.

Yep, there are lipids in any food that comes from any animal, plant, fungus, protozoan or bacterial source. And yes, the human body needs certain fatty acids in order to be healthy.

Well. There's my excuse. They're making excuses for everything and every body now. Why stop here? Why not just make an excuse that breathing air leads you to be stupid. That'll explain away everything.

until the 1970's when they introduced unleaded fuel breathing air did indeed make you stupid :P

Fuel was unleaded to begin with, they only began adding lead to "Reduce engine knocking" in older vehicles. But, as engine design has improved, it's no longer necessary.

That's a pretty major slap in the face for all those people that suffered brain damage as a result of exposure to the smog.

I read a little study that said a 30 minute jog in NY equals a pack of cigarettes... how messed up is that D:

Not at all, I didn't say anything to make it seem as though the people who suffered from this weren't important. I merely aimed to provide a little background and history to that particular situation.

But just the same... To anyone offended by my previous statement, past, present or future, stop reading into what I typed, there was no underlying message of "ha ha, you got sick/died/ect". Any offense taken from my previous post was almost guaranteed at your misinterpretation, this post however... well I might understand if this upsets someone, it's a big internet and people like to take things personally.

Oh i didn't mean to imply that you were being offensive. I was referring to the historical reason for introducing leaded fuel which you brought to light. Thanks for sharing.

Facts like that are the reason that I believe a truly free market system would be disastrous, no morals ever trump profits.

Aha! I see where your going with this now

I'm not fat or anything (yet), but I know I end up depressed if I don't have my daily dose of fat and sugar...

Is there anything I can do to stop that, Dr MifMaf ?
Is there a veggie that makes people happy ?

It's probably an insulin thing or withdrawal. Once your body becomes dependent on certain levels it becomes harder to change them.

High nutrient foods actually do make you happy :3

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroan.

:D

You'll have to give a journal with advice on what you've found to eat. Just trying to limit high fructose corn syrup is hard enough; but finding a 0 fat 0 oil diet? Now that's a challenge!

Hence why it's only for a week X3

well go for it XD

I know how hard it is to find such, even nutritious meals have them XD

As someone who regularly experiences the "shakes and lethargy" of having low blood sugar (I believe I may be hypoglycemic, but I have never made the effort to get it officially checked), I know how hard it is to monitor your food intake.

Personally, I've been working over the summer to decrease the portions of my meals, my rationale being that if one gets fuller quicker, then it is easier to manage the intake of fats, carbs, and sugars. So far it's worked pretty well, and I can visibly see myself slimming compared to how I looked before... However, it was probably not helped that I worked at a DQ this summer (I had a quesadilla consisting of a tortilla, cheese, tomato, onions, and half a breast of chicken almost every day though... So I didn't do the high-fat uber cheeseburger route...).

Once I get to college (read: next week) I plan on doing about 30 minutes of cycling in the morning 2-3 times a week and continuing to have small meals.

I'm hoping this will help. I'm tired of being a big guy.

How come the Akins works, then? :o

I don't know if heart attacks are an indication that it works >.>

I don't know if losing weight by going on a new diet is a sign it works-- OH NO, WAIT, IT IS. :o

The atkins diet will make you lose weight, but it also does quite a bit of damage to your cardiovascular system in the process. A tapeworm will also make you lose weight successfully, doesn't mean its a good idea :P

And of course we know no side-effects (save the good ones) of this no-fat diet, either.

I go by what my brother has figured out on the subject. There are no known negative effects to regulating your biological functions in a natural rhythm.

I wonder if a high sugar diet is good for your brain... Stupid 'Death Note' has made me wonder about that. -.-

lifes too short for calarie counting, eat hard and live hard!