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Yep, and same thing today, as I noted above. Committee stacked with shills. No, there'd companies raking in profits, lots of researchers comfortable in their tenured positions and consulting, and an obesity epidemic, obviously.

What sources listed did you read? Well, none. ????

Exactly. And it was the US "research" and politicians that first created the consensus and put them in vogue. The food industry contributions to research, and to politicians, were self-"mandated" to increase their own profits, as I've indicated earlier and you ignored. And they certainly did, with the resulting obesity epidemic. Would I pay for good health based on alternative research? And that research could simply be a reinterpretation of original shoddy research and false conclusions by the food industry studies. Gary Taubes, a journalist, did exactly that. Now there are a lot of new studies that you're unaware of. I prefer to be aware, thank you. It's paid off nicely.

None at all. 'Course, I'm a year younger than you. ????

Well, go find your study debunked here: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/10/flaw-found-in-no-safe-level-of-drinking-claim/ It was rather silly, actually, if you think about it. Careers are built on such. They found that out of 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would develop an alcohol-related health problem such as cancer or suffer an injury. Even if they're non-drinkers. Then But an extra four people would be affected if they drank one alcoholic drink a day. For people who had two alcoholic drinks a day, 63 more developed a condition within a year . . . . An extra four people if having one.???? I'll take those odds and consider the other studies showing benefits--that haven't been refuted. Then your article goes into a rant about how people often drink into excess. DANGER WILL ROBINSON. I like the response: "There is no safe level of driving, but the government does not recommend that people avoid driving. "Come to think of it, there is no safe level of living, but nobody would recommend abstention." Meanwhile, you still have quite recent summaries (and check the sources VERY carefully, while you're having your fruits, bread and pasta), they're listed) such as Surprising Ways Alcohol May Be Good for You

Tell us the list of meds you're taking again?

Funny after what COVID medical advice did to Oz and NZ. Rest of the Western world follows the US as the interests are quite similar. You may compare the recommended food pyramids in OZ and the UK that came out when the USA food pyramid came out. ???? In short, you don't know much about the topic in depth, so you'll have to roll with what they tell you.

I'll go with https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109707020074 and Alcohol intake is causally related to lower risk of coronary heart disease through changes in lipids and haemostatic factors. --https://www.bmj.com/content/319/7224/1523.short among others. Dig, man.

Makes them more credible in some ways. Not being paid off by the usual sources. But, go read all the testimonials to their success.

Always have been. The founder of Harvard Nutrition, Fredrick Stare obtained $1,026,000 from General Foods. Kellogg's funded $2 million to set up Harvard's Nutrition Foundation. A shill for the Sugar Industry, Stare promoted the notion that Coca-Cola was "a healthy between-meals snack." Big threat to the profits of the food, medical, and fitness "wellness" industries. It continues: A spokesman for Corporate Accountability says the new study finds the federal scientific advisors to the dietary process “are even more conflicted than previously through.” Some of the key findings: - 95 percent of the last Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) has at least one tie to an industry actor. - Researchers were able to document more than 700 instances of Conflict of Interest (COI) for the committee in total. - One advisor alone accounted for 152 of these instances. - Multiple advisors were connected to more than 30 industry actors. - Among corporations, Kellogg, Abbott, Kraft, Mead Johnson, General Mills, and Dannon had the most frequent and durable connections to advisors. - Among trade or front groups, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) had the most extensive engagement with advisors, with the California Walnut Commission, Almond Board of California, and Beef Checkoff also looming large. --A second study finds Dietary Guidelines panel rife with conflicts of interest There are currently >800 papers on low-carb/ketogenic diet trials (high-quality evidence). A draft list of Qs by for the next Dietary Guidelines did not include a single Q on this literature. Now, the list is being finalized. --Nina Teicholz You may convince yourself of this by reading Denise Minger's Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health. Or, just believe what you wish. Food, pharma, medical, political, and fitness industries are with ya, man.

It's not as overwhelming as it appears from all the noise. Here ya go; talk to different Australian doctors. ???? Low Carb Down Under

True, but the carb content is pretty low, maybe 10% of beer. Probably the least of the worries for most members here eating their pies and pastries. The polyphenols make wine well worth drinking in moderation, besides some studies that show a moderate intake of alcohol good for you. I have a glass of red daily.

Lot of bias against meat by the food industry, which finances most of the studies in their own favor, and the politicians, and now the climate change industry (ironically). You'll find most of the studies against meat questionable for one reason or another. Common problem is that the obese meat eaters also eat a lot of carbs and other excess calories with their meat. Can't concieve of eating meat without bread, for example.

Certainly an improvement over the SAD. Jack LaLanne, one of my heroes, followed a diet somewhat similar, but it notably had much less starch, notably bread, rice, and pasta. This doesn't discriminate between fruits, either, meaning high glycemic OK to spike your glucose. And it gives lip service to Omega-3 while permitting processed seed oils high in Omega-6, so working against a low Omega-6/3 ratio the diet should promote. Importance of maintaining a low omega-6/omega-3 ratio for reducing platelet aggregation, coagulation and thrombosis I try to have fish a few times a week, notably salmon, canned tuna & mackerel.

BTW, be sure to keep breathing when you're lifting slowly. Less stress on the heart. You'll see a lot of enthusiastic pumpers in the gym holding their breaths during the concentric phase to make it easier, but it's only for a second or so.

Probably snacking because of insulin drops after spikes. Dysregulation driving fat deposit.

Yes. Best starting point: cut out the processed foods. Some of our members claim that this was enough to get back to a normal weight. Unprocessed foods (though we've debated the definition) still may not be so great for the ol' metabolism, however, if they're starches. The best practice is just to avoid the filler, with probable insulin spikes, and instead spend your money on nutrient-rich foods: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.806566/full

Different sources of calories have different effects on the metabolism, quite true. Gary Taubes made this point exhaustively in Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health. But we tend to hate Gary Taubes here, though we haven't actually read what he says.???? Some of our warriors are now lifting their hands from their keyboards to make the sign of the cross. So with fruits. David Unwin's Infographics You can find a chart here: https://thegestationaldiabetic.com/glycemic-index-fruit/ Me, I have berries daily. Makro sells frozen 1 kg bags of them pretty cheaply.

Superseded by the TG/HDL ratio. Below 2, better under 1 is where you want to be. Great predictor of insulin resistance and all the rest associated with it. Most doctors don't interpret this test correctly

Could it have been gracku, with sildenafil and tadalafil????? Never underestimate the power of placebo.

A large backlog got cleared out when The Tunnel didn’t flood after the first big rains. The revelation that water doesn’t run uphill, the evidence of successful Thai construction, all the little jokes now silly and stupid, and the unbearable disillusionment at having cherished beliefs and infallible Doom Prophecies revealed as the usual nonsense—all utterly devastating. For days you could hardly walk around Soi Buakhao without hearing the thud of an ace ANF Construction Engineer hitting the pavement after jumping from a nearby building.

Not bad, doing a lot more than most people ???? Super slow and also static holds when the muscle is at max contraction. That way you can do fewer reps, easier on the joints. Hold 2 - 4 sec. Lighter weights, fewer reps = safety and efficiency. @ozimoronhas the advantage of a trainer; trainer sounds good so far. At my gym I sometimes wish I were a beginner, 'cause there's a really cute, very fit young lady trainer working there in her tight yoga pants, and she's good. Mostly. Form's very important. Gotta stop if you're too tired to do it correctly. Younger folks can get away with being sloppy, but we can't. Look on youtube for instruction. Athlean-X is knowledgeable. A lot of vids out there are targeted at seniors. Another trick is to keep things in balance. If you do a push set, like a dumbbell press, do a corresponding pull, like a dumbbell row. A lot of problems I see on the forum--knees, hips, back--probably arise from long-term muscle imbalances. Staying with lighter weights and going slowly, like 4 sec up, 4 down at minimum, helps. Get plenty of rest for the muscles worked, 3 - 4 days at least. So injuries should be minimal. May have to stop and deal with them sometimes. Happens to everyone. BTW, some exercises should be avoided, but you'll see them commonly in Thai gyms. Behind the neck pulldowns, upright rows, and situps, for example. (Google unsafe exercises.) The gym has the ab crunch machine, good. Otherwise, a substitute for situps for seniors are leg raises, much easier on the back. These can be held isometrically and get hard as h.e.ll. Slider pikes are also good, esp. when combined w/ the leg raises. Hits stomach and back. I did leg raises and TRX pikes during the COVID lockdowns, and they were good to me.

Very different. Both? Older people need strength training. It needn't be with heavy weights, and indeed the OP hasn't started with them. Could be bodyweight, isometrics, bands, or a TRX. Light weights can be lifted super slowly. One gradually works up to intensity according to capability.

Wrong. Unlike yourself, I consider them all in depth, including your fave quack. I followed Pritikin for a time in the early 80s, which should have your approval. Bought and read The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise. Didn't just google up snippets.???? It has its good points, and remained an influence, but turned out wrong about others; and is overall inferior to low carb. And what primary source--book--have you read in favor of a low carb diet? I follow a number of fitness and health experts on Twitter daily and take a look at the sources they quote. I mentioned one above. And they don't always agree. A. J. Cortes doesn't always agree with P. D. Mangan, for example. He appeals to a younger market. I've benefited from both. David Ludwig has some really high-powered critics. If you read them, you'd conclude he's wrong. But then you have to read Ludwig's replies, which may just be letters to the journal in question. (This trips up our most rabid anti-low carber here: not reading the primary sources but also not reading the replies to critics; too lazy, unable, or "don't want to know.") Same with news: I read both the CNN and the Fox News headlines daily. McDougall has been doubted by others far more knowledgeable than I. But any average person may google some of his "facts" to find them wrong--unless they're True Believers.???? So he's not worth taking seriously. In fact, he seems to be suffering from premature senility himself. Science constantly changes. Longevity in a field such as nutrition rife with fraud and fads may simply reflect a propensity to reflect entrenched interests, most notably one's one, but also merely political. You may convince yourself of this by reading Denise Minger's Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health. I mean, if you read books.????

I looked into that before and found it the usual nonsense. Try to read and listen critically. Do some real research and thinking for yourself.