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Is eating a meal with 2000 Calories at once any different from eating 4 times at 500 Calories?
There have been quite a few studies on the influence of meal frequency, but usually they focus on weight loss.
I could find one pilot study comparing people receiving either one or three meals a day, ...
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What foods can increase penis length and girth?
After full sexual development is complete (usually the teens for most males), penis enlargement is impossible. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar and is probably trying to sell you something.
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Is eating spicy hot (pungent) food (hot chilli & peppers etc.) healthy or harmful?
Red chilies contain large amounts of vitamin C and small amounts of carotene (provitamin A). Yellow and especially green chilies (which are essentially unripe fruit) contain a considerably lower ...
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Can a one year old safely follow a ketogenic diet?
In general, no.
A ketogenic diet is one where carbohydrates are eliminated and protein is restricted, to force the body to obtain its energy from the metabolism of fatty acids and ketone bodies, ...
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What are the best ways to increase fertility?
I will try to answer your question by using another perspective (risk factors for infertility).
MALE
Among the main causes of male infertility, "idiopathic" causes (ie not du to endocrine problems, ...
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Can a calorie be neither protein, carbohydrate, nor fat?
Ethanol is caloric and is neither a carbohydrate, protein, or fat.
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Why is natural sugar healthier than refined sugar?
To directly answer your question: it is not. "Natural" sugar is no healthier than "refined" sugar, and sugar in fruits is no healthier than sugar in juice. Sugar molecules are ...
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What is the difference between cal and Kcal?
Answer: 1 Kilocalorie equals 1 Calorie. Note the capital "C". 1 kilocalorie equals 1000 calories. Note the lowercase "c". So Calories and kilocalories are pretty much the same thing.
Kilocalories
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Can you measure insulin resistance?
InsulinNation gives a good overview:
Pre-diabetes can exist for a long time in your body without triggering the most common outward signs of diabetes (continual thirst, frequent urination, blurred ...
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What is the difference between free sugars and non-free sugars, both chemically and medically?
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Free sugars are all instances were sugar can be avoided and is not essential. It is encouraged to cut down the free sugars intake because sugar has many negative health effects:
Sugar
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Is having 3 whole eggs at breakfast harmful?
The American Heart Association no longer condemns eggs in its guidelines. But it does recommend that people limit themselves to 300 milligrams of cholesterol daily (a single egg has about 200 ...
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Can a one year old safely follow a ketogenic diet?
Your have three questions in one now:
Is a ketogenic diet appropriate for a one year old?
Is a carbohydrate reduced diet appropriate for a one year old?
Is milk really necessary for a one year old, ...
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Can eating chalk cause very low level haemoglobin level?
Eating chalk is a type of Pica. It is characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as paper, clay, drywall or paint, metal, chalk, soil, glass, or sand which is ...
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Do you need to consume iodised salt?
Iodine is absolutely an essential mineral, and is required for proper functioning of your body. It is a component of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (also known as T3) and its precursor form T4 (...
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Do protein bars/shakes provide nutrients that your body can use?
What you are asking about is called bioavailability, which is the term for how much of a consumed substance is actually taken up by the body, and bioequivalence, which is about whether two products ...
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How often should you drink water? Not how much
Referring to published research, there is no known quota on drinking frequency since fluid intake from beverages and food in time period takes care of the total hydration status of an individual in a ...
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How to gain weight naturally or by food around the house
Unless you are very short, your weight indicates that you are severely underweight, see here for details. If you are indeed underweight, then you should follow the advice given there:
If you are ...
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Is Glue on Chocolate and other Wrappers Safe/ Edible?
It can be trusted as safe as much as the regulations that it comes under can be trusted to make it safe and producers following said regulations.
Materials and articles that come into contact ...
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What is the difference between cal and Kcal?
Generally speaking, 1 kilocalorie = 1000 calories (definition here).
But the confusing part is explained here:
The energy used in physical activity and the energy stored in foods is actually given ...
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Is it dangerous to eat bananas and eggs together?
Utter nonsense. Many common recipes combine bananas and eggs. People eat bananas with eggs all the time without harm. I've had some of these myself and they're tasty.
Banana pancakes
Banana bread
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Are nutrition values always additive?
I would add to the existing answer that this really boils down to which factors of nutrient uptake you want to ignore.
You mention already that you don't want to be concerned with variation of the ...
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Does increased consumption of fructose cause increased insulin resistance in humans?
TL;DR;
Fructose's biochemistry indicates it may lead to increased triglyceride levels in the blood, which can lead to insulin resistance. Data on humans has not yet shown fructose, as a replacement ...
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What evidence is there for and against Alternate Day Fasting?
There is one systematic review on this topic. This study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which is the most respected journal in their discipline. As so, I consider this ...
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How much sucralose does Powerade Zero contain? Why does that information not appear to be provided?
Sucralose is considered to be a non nutritive sweetener, since the body does not break down the majority of the sucralose molecule. Because of that, it's considered to be non caloric, so it won't be ...
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Does fried food cause gastritis and other gastrointestinal tract illnesses?
There are many reasons why fried food can be harmful. The chief reason is related to the oil content in these foodstuffs.
It has high oil content which may not be good if consumed in large amounts. ...
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Can a one year old safely follow a ketogenic diet?
I highly advise against such a restrictive and one-sided diet for a child! For children a balanced diet is important both for their physical and mental development. This means that malnutrition can ...
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Why do some foods with high calories not fill you up?
Satiety is not, and never was, a measure of the calories you have eaten. You feel sated when a certain type of neurons fire in your brain. These neurons are triggered by 1) impulses incoming from the ...
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Why are carbs said to be fattening?
Note: This explanation does not concern itself with body health, wellbeing, the ability to follow/sustain the diet short/long term, impact to nervous system or the psychological impact of satiety that ...
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Is it possible to regain lost lactose tolerance?
First, here is a small background on lactose intolerance:
Lactose is a disaccharide present in high quantity in mammalian milk. Once in the intestine, it is hydrolysed into glucose and galactose, ...
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Am I overweight? Bad self image...?
No, you are not overweight at all, and whoever told you it was a good idea to even consider a "diet" was very mistaken. Don't listen to them.
At 120 pounds and 5'5", your Body Mass Index is 20.0, ...
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