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Re:Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated by csshelton on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @06:45PM (#2787714)
Why do you suggest forgoing legumes?
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Re:Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated by robchez on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:24PM (#2787837)
this has got to do more with health rather than weight loss i guess.

legumes have 3 things that suck - lectins, protease inhibitors and phytates

lectins - known to cause inflammation and have been show to cause gut permeability which is followed by auto-immune type diseases.

protease inhibitors intefere with the breakdown of proteins into amino acids

phytates have been shown to inhibit mineral absorption

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Re:Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated by dgrant on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:40PM (#2787888)
I call bull shit. This sounds like some Paleo-diet nonsense rather than the result of rigorous scientific study.
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Re:Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated by robchez on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:51PM (#2787923)
call it what you like but that some basic biomedical info there. just wikipedia/google it.

:)

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Re:Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated by subsection1h on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:32PM (#2787862)
Why did he make any of those suggestions? I don't know because he didn't provide any citations to research papers.
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