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Agreed. I think it's a societal problem. We've evolved so our body can signal when it wants nutrients, even to the extent of the occasional odd food craving a pregnant woman may feel. Then we're surrounded by adverts for brightly packaged foods containing empty carbs to eat and still feel...

Scurvy knave! Or navel? :) It's suprising that a first-world problem is still manutrition/vitamin deficiency that's easily avoided, ie vitamin D, C, B1 etc..

Stuff happens. May have been the dreaded norovirus that can strike this time of year, and is not fun. Also, being a virus, cleaning with antibacterial lotions and potions won't help. Bleach will though. But congratulations on your journey, and your willpower!

Knowledge is power! And a way to avoid nasty consequences like hypokalemia, hyponatremia, anemia, and of course hypoglycemia. They're bad. Especially in combination, as in slipping quietly into a coma. Luckily in the developed world, we're generally surrounded by nutrients. So a calorie...

Bah humbug. Fasting is an absolutely certain method to lose weight, up until emaciation and starving to death. Which I guess is extreme autophagy.. :p Trick is to find the happy medium where there's safe weight loss, minimal hunger pangs or cravings for awesome Czech beer & food and enough...

So a bit more flippancy. People taking heroin develop a tolerance, so take higher doses. It's a hard habit to break and there may be many temptations to relapse. Or once someone's kicked the habit, they stay quit and have a healthier life. For me, it's easy to replace heroin with...

So high blood pressure, due to the possibility of Marmite being banned for being too salty means I can sue the Grauniad?

That's still a sustainability challenge. So if fossil fuels are taxed out of usage, something needs to replace the energy. Some may be wind or solar, but those cost a lot of money and take up space, especially large scale solar PV. Then countries are decarbonising to greater or lesser extents...

Congrats on the progress! Could your results be activity related, ie from the walk on the beach? I was out earlier and it's been pretty windy, so wind chill would have been high. (Oh, and as for understanding.. The more I learn, the more I admire our walking chemical refineries. And looking...

Maybe try all the options and see which feels better & keeps the meter happy? I started by skipping breakfast, then lunch and now only eat early evening. I'm curious if that fits with circadian rythms and whether people are morning types, or night owls.

Start slow, don't expect miracles! Although if youve trained up to 5K runs in the past, you should have an idea for a goal. Like do that again, then 8Km, then improve your time or go mad and go further. Walks would be a start, and you'd be properly fat burning. No need for expensive gym...

On the plus side, now we have the Internet, it's never been easier to find essential survival skills:- Now, for the UK, I'd also need to occupy a few large greenhouses I think.

I think that's where the politics get interesting. So Russia used to rely on US wheat, now it's modernised it's agriculture and doesn't. So Russia's now exporting and competing with the US. The US had lobbying by environmentalists (and agribusiness) to produce ethanol from corn. It's more...

That could be the start of a fun series of 'Big Brother'. Two teams, one vegan, one omnivore. Give them same area of land to work and see which develops nutritional deficiencies first. Urban vegans would probably just starve though. Some of the vegan dreams seem a bit like WW2 'Dig for Victory'...

Relative risk is one of the biggest malpractice areas spanning many fields. It's just a very deceptive practice that gets used to exagerate the desired result. So take a study of say, 2000 people. 1,000 are on statins, the other 1,000 on a placebo. One person dies in the statin cohort, two in...

Yup. But it sounds like you've already got a handle on that. So when you don't feel hungry and you feel that you've got enough energy. Congratulate yourself on a contented metabolic system! I really do think a lot of it is about breaking the habit. I used to grab a BLT baguette to eat on the...

I think there's also a risk of generalisation, oversimplification, and possibly sales projections for ND shakes. As I understand it, Dr Taylor's ND trials have had a narrow focus and a specific aim, ie rapid (and safe) weight/fat loss that avoids bariatric surgery and all it's risks. Once ND's...

Oh. Mad! Acronyms, acronyms everywhere.. :) But congratulations! I've been doing the OMAD thing for over 5yrs.. Caveat being I was diagnosed with T2D during that time. But that was probably more due to activity levels and carb intake during that one meal. That would have been typically heavy...

Wot I learned:- Don't meat and drive. I suppose eating a burger, smoking and driving at the same time would result in an adverse outcome. More seriously, an excellent presentation. I'm also curious how 'relative risk' became a thing because as shown in this presentation, it's statistically...

Well done Polypsodd!