Pinguinsan

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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
The group of people you're referencing (Inuit people btw, Eskimo is a slur) have some of the highest obesity rates in the world! The Nunavuts have an obesity rate of 48%! The ethiopians have a diet of mostly carbohydrates (>70%), an
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
You're saying that eating excess calories in the form of fat won't be stored as fat? That's the most efficient pathway and was critical to our survival. What you're referring to (excess carbohydrates converted to fat) is
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
The first law of thermodynamics takes issue with this. A calorie is a unit of measure for energy.
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
I never said they didn't. I said that a diet, when controlled for calorie levels, will yield identical fat gain/loss.
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
Well the person I responded to is claiming equicaloric diets lead to different levels of fat gain.
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
Are you saying that a diet from higher carbs will produce more fat gain than an equicaloric low carb diet?
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
What is the cutoff for elite athletes vs non-elites? A 5 minute mile? 6 minute mile? Why would there be a discontinuous jump between what a lay person should do versus a profesionally athlete? Sure, volume and intensity would be scaled back
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
Effective for what? Body composition? Fitness? If the latter, please explain why all elite endurance athletes do the overwhelming majority (>95%) of their training at low intensities. If the former, well, elite endurance athletes sure ar
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by Pinguinsan 5y ago
Eating low carb and switching to high carb will cause significant water weight increase due to increased muscle glycogen. On the order of 5-10lbs. It's not fat.
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
That's a fair point. It's all qualitative right now.
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
Roughly the past year or two.
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Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
95 points by Pinguinsan 6y ago|87 comments
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
This isn't meant to be snarky, but why would we need a cross-platform UI toolkit for a (by definition) Linux only installer?
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
Does the vaccine prevent transmission?
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
Has the vaccine been shown to prevent transmission?
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
Indiana has had a mask mandate since May. Our compliance has been great >95%, yet our cases are skyrocketing.
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
Nice source you have there.
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
I dislike your use of the word "literally" immediately preceding something that did not, in fact, literally happen.
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
How many kids have long term effects?
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
Because I am selfish and, by and large, don't care about others. Selfish? Yes. Just being honest.
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by Pinguinsan 6y ago
You are part of the problem. Stop while you're behind.