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I don't know that there are medical studies showing positive results for any single factor. I've seen videos making the case for vitamin K2 and D3, as well as metformin. You will need to do your homework on this, ideally with a doctor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulemSPBA3DA

Let's not omit sugar and refined carbohydrates (high-GI foods) from the inflammation equation...

Not disagreeing, but want to add that heart attacks are usually a result of an inflammatory process within coronary artery walls (as opposed to plaque building up on the outside of the wall). Inflammation in the artery wall leads to plaque buildup (to repair it). If that plaque breaks through the artery wall (the intima) into the bloodstream, a clot forms leading to a heart attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwri-0rTweI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209544/

Here's a related theory: People who consume a significant amount of fat tend to become overweight/obese because they also overconsume carbohydrates (and protein), which spikes blood insulin and causes the dietary fat to be stored as adipose tissue. People with a lot of adipose tissue have higher levels of cholesterol, a hormone manufactured by the body to manage its fat stores (among many other things).

So in this scenario, is it eating saturated dietary fat which causes unhealthy levels of cholesterol in the blood?

Or is it because the person's diet has caused them to become overweight/obese and therefore the body's cholesterol levels have increased as a result?

In my own experience, I lost 20% of my body weight (57 lbs) by eating a high fat low-carb diet, supplemented by intermittent fasting. I was on statins (cholesterol medication) and an ARB (for hypertension), and was able to stop taking these meds 18 months after losing the weight.

There are lots of reasons to avoid saturated oils/fat. I think it's misleading and overly simplistic to say or imply that dietary fat leads to high cholesterol.

https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-pa...

Exercising for 3 hours each day isn't a sustainable habit for anyone except perhaps Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Mr. Cahill gained close to 60 lbs over a four year period. At that rate, it sounds like he was on his way to regaining the weight as soon as the program was over, rather than just when he returned to his surveyor job. When your resting metabolism is 400-600 calories too low, the fate of your weight loss goals is pretty much sealed.

I think the metabolism damage is the greater danger here. These are people who had some of the most intensive training available to learn how to eat healthy and exercise.

And yet having your resting metabolism driven downwards 400-600 calories virtually guarantees that you will yo-yo. Every calorie above your low limit will erode any gains you've made.

For those who believe that it's a simple as "move more, eat less", consider that the Biggest Loser contestants weren't able to keep their weight off long-term. This approach also damaged their metabolisms-- their resting metabolic rates were 400-600 calories lower than when they started their program, even 6 years after the fact.

https://idmprogram.com/biggest-loser-diet-explained/

Here's my $.02. IF is like stretching or yoga, where you start off unable to touch your toes but you gain flexibility quickly if you stay with it. With IF the first half-dozen fasting sessions you'll be hungry, especially around mealtimes. Your body is used to eating 3 meals a day plus snacks. But before long, you can go longer stretches without food and you'll hardly notice-- in fact, you'll feel mentally sharper.

Generally when you're new to fasting, and also when you're early in a fast, you will be hungry. The hunger usually disappears after a short period however. If you ever work your way up to a 48+ hour fast, you'll see that your body finally stops complaining at that point and days 3 to 5 tend to be hunger free.

I think by skipping only a single meal each day, you're likely getting most of the hunger without many of the benefits. With only breakfast skipped, your metabolic state may be closer to a calorie-restriction diet (which can reduce your resting metabolism) than a fasting one. Brain-fuzziness and sluggishness are usually a symptom of eating, not fasting.

A few tips:

- Skipping only breakfast might be a good start for you, but to maximize weight loss (or theraputic fasting) goals, you'll probably want to work your way up to one long fast per week (e.g., 23 hrs or more) and one or two 16 to 18 hour fasts. As you get better at fasting, you'll look forward to it.

- Depending on how much carbohydrate you have in your body you won't reach ketosis (fat burning, assuming that's your goal) until 18 to 24 hours into the fast. If you eat a typical Western/US diet, you may need a full 24 hours to break into ketosis. If you eat a high-fat/low-carb or keto diet, which I recommend, you will likely reach ketosis in half that time or less, which translates to more fat loss.

- A pound of body fat is 3,500 calories. Assuming a 2,500 calorie per day metabolism, you can lose around .5 lb each 24 hour fast, plus some water weight (the latter of which returns quickly after the fast, so don't get too excited).

- I've found it helpful to stay active during a fast. Go for a walk or hike. Get a workout in. It helps clear your mind particularly if you're hungry.

- If you become ravenous and your brain gets panicky from the hunger, listen to your body and either break the fast or have a cup of broth to see if that helps you get over the hump.

Some benefits of 18+ hour fasts-

- Autophagy / cell-repair, where your cells perform some Spring Cleaning and burn away the junk that has accumulated in the cell's attic and basement.

- Reduction in insulin levels. This can help with Type 2 diabetes, and it allows fat burning to take place (your body won't burn body fat while carbs are available in your system).

- Surge in growth hormones. During a long fast you can experience a 2000% increase in growth hormones. This is why the body-builders are into keto/IF -- they're focused on eliminating as much fat as possible and building muscle.

Some links:

What is Intermittent Fasting? Dr. Jason Fung Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIhhrYjVhOk

How to Maximize Fat Burning, Dr. Jason Fung Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwE4D8Xe8JA

The Sweet Spot for Intermittent Fasting https://medium.com/the-mission/the-sweet-spot-for-intermitte...

(The Failure of) 'The Biggest Loser' Diet – Explained https://idmprogram.com/biggest-loser-diet-explained/

If you have more questions, maybe might try this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/

SQL as a language is simple and easy. It's applying it properly for a relational algebra of a database which makes it far more complicated.

Very cool. I love all of rebol's descendent languages (red, ren-c), and this is a great article to introduce Red. Well done!

Congress is about to pass a tax cut which adds 1 Trillion + to the deficit. Anyone who thinks we'll be sending manned missions to the moon or anywhere else in the solar system is going to have to reconcile that with a 30 Trillion debt crisis looming on the horizon.

Sounds like you're talking about Red http://www.red-lang.org/2017/03/062-libred-and-macros.html

Worthy comparison of efficiency and energy loss, but zero mention of the negative externalities of either...

This. Sugar and simple or highly processed carbs cause your body to release insulin in order to regulate blood sugar. Insulin switches off any fat burning and tells the body to store fat.

Whenever your diet consists of carbs and fat nutrients, the fat is going to be immediately stored in your fatty tissues, and any excess carbs that you can't burn quickly will go there also.

Nice release. Good progress! Thank you Red team.

I'm a tech manager. Been on keto for over a year. It has improved my weight (lost 50 lbs) and my overall health, but other than that it has had little or no impact on my job.

Zero Republican support was baked-into it from the start. Repubs that did work with the democrats, and had their feedback incorporated (161 amendments) were threatened by House leadership (see: Chuck Grassley, Gang of Six).

Obamacare is largely a success. Even the current CBO report shows that it has been working well. The program is only a few years old and needs some tweaking. Its main shortcoming is that it is slightly underfunded, and needs more enrollments from younger people. Also pretty shitty that 19 states would rather see their constituents suffer than to allow the federal government to expand Medicaid for them.

That place you get your information from. It stinks.

Look up: Gang of Six affordable care act.

The HCR bill included 6 core planks of previous Republican health care bills, and the Democrats accepted and incorporated 161 amendments to the bill from Republicans.

http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/hcr_amendments/ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/five_com...

I work in marketing for a major corp. My teams manage 100+ ecommerce sites in 15 languages; we send out millions of marketing/promo emails each month; we manage product-search taxonomies, geographic hierarchies, keywords, etc. Even though large databases are our workhorses, we also transform tens of thousands of text content files (XML primarily) and validate data across plumbing junctions-- ETL jobs, SOA, web APIs and so-forth.

My teams are business users-- web-savvy marketers, designers and data analysts -- i.e., a semi-technical group. Some can write javascript and/or SQL, but they aren't programmers. We need very simple, short, readable scripts. Most languages require regular expressions, which are not a good fit for my teams unless the task is fairly basic. Rebol's Parse DSL is probably the best regular expression replacement I've found in my career. We basically have no need for RE's ever.

Rebol (and Red) have plenty of other uses -- and we've built some nice desktop GUI apps. But our main needs are around data-munging/wrangling -- scanning tens of thousands of files and/or webAPIs and parsing/extracting/transforming that data to make our many haystacks needle-free. For us, Rebol/Red have the simplest tools that work well for this job.

I imagine in the future, with greater emphasis on knowledge worker roles (such as data analysts), we may see the emergence of even simpler languages than available today-- My $.02 -- I just don't think R/Python/Ruby/Perl are quite simple enough for semi-technical staff and non-programmers.

More than a decade later, Rebol (and its newer offspring Red red-lang.org) are still in regular use on my team.

A cool thing about Rebol's (and Red's) PEGs are that they can easily parse and process the diverse datatypes of its parent source.

REBOL Parser in 10 Lines http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/recipes/0042.html

And:

http://blog.hostilefork.com/why-rebol-red-parse-cool/ "But even more impressively, it can work on the symbolic structure of code itself. While Rebol and Red are both like Lisp in being homoiconic, when you see something like PARSE applied on code itself... you know you're looking at something very cool."

Same for me. About a decade ago I started using Rebol for shell-scripts, file management and working with web API's. It's nice to work with a syntax where I can look at an older parse routine and figure out what I was trying to do just by reading it. Only time I use regex is within my code editor.