Questions tagged [food]
Food is what we eat to give us energy and nutrition.
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Do I need to track macronutrients? [duplicate]
Do I need to track my cutting macronutrients, or can I just eat a good amount of protein and eat fewer carbs and fats? I'm doing this for fat loss and for maintaining muscle mass during cutting
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Is there an upper limit to the maximum amount of natural sugar I'm allowed to eat a day to stay physically fit?
As far as I can tell, there are two types of sugar, natural and added.
With added sugars, the answer seems obvious:
Zero added sugar is best, but maximum is 25 grams for women, and 37.5 grams for men.
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Protein is 4 kilocalories per gram. Does this value account for the thermic effect of food? [closed]
I have read that protein is actually 5 kcal/gram, and with the thermic effect of food, it becomes 4 kcal/gram.
But I have also read that protein is 4 kcal/gram, and with the thermic effect of food, it ...
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Drugs or foods that make physical exercise attractive, that facilitates the start of exercise?
I exercise every day, but it is hard thing to start doing it - I should do some 10-20 minute meditation before it, I am procrastinating things to delay the start of exercise, all thoughts about the ...
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Bulking on a high fibre diet?
I'm trying to bulk up at a target of 3000 kcals per day.
I'm using huel powder to meet 1600kcals (so about 4 shakes per day); the rest comes from real food.
I've noticed that I'm having to poop about ...
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Does steaming a vegetable change its amount of macronutrient absorption? [closed]
Anecdotally, over the years I've noticed that eating nuts vs eating peanut-butter has different effects on my weight-loss progress. While whole nuts seem to be minimally processed by my digestion and ...
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How do you interpret the provided calories over food packages?
I have started to track the calories which I receive in each meal. I have chicken filet which you can find an image of it below. It claims in each 100g of it, there is only 22g protein and 3g salt, 5g ...
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inflammatory and anti-inflammatory food table
To avoid sports injuries anyone knows if exists (book, ebook, internet..) a nutritional table (detected by recent scientific studies) that lists the inflammatory and anti-inflammatory power of each ...
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Do nutritional facts take into account the inedible parts of certain foods? [closed]
I was wondering if the caloric values of leftovers of certain foods (may the best example be bones, when eating chicken) that are never eaten, taken into account when calculating nutrition values of ...
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Macro ratios accuracy
I've gained 30lbs this year by eating a lot and training a lot. Now I want to put on another 20lbs by the end of the year. To be sure that I'm not increasing my body fat percentage, I'm trying to plan ...
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Can substituting beets with other nitrate rich vegetables to improve athletic performance?
Beet roots have been known to improve endurance and reduce oxygen consumption during exercise.
Can other nitrate rich vegetables produce similar effects?
Studies seem to focus mainly on beets for ...
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Cheap Alternatives to Meal Prep [closed]
A well known fact in the fitness world is that a big portion of results come from dieting. Now, I know what foods are healthy and which ones aren't. That's not an issue for me; however, I seem to have ...
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How do I know whether my diet is good or whether it's total crap?
I'm trying to gain muscle and become fit without getting too pumped up. I've made this diet and my question is, how do I check if my diet is any good?
edit 1: My warm meal isn't included but that ...
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Can't progress any further with my trainings!
I have been doing this program for quite some time now. There is a bit of progress in terms of technique but my body seems to be unchanged for the past 3 months.
In other terms I do progress a ...
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how can i combine fitness and diabets together ? how can i be a professioal athlete? [closed]
Doctor's said that you cant exercise anymore , now i see nacho ( REAL MADRID F.C midfielder ) can play football as well as anyoe else , in high rate and grade , although he has diabets since he was 12 ...
