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I'm with you on the milk, and I rarely eat meat, but I like it sometimes ;)

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Re the last two. Take a pint of milk. Beat an egg (raw) into it. Add a little sugar, grated nutmeg and a dash of sherry. Result: an egg nog. Excellent!

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It may be yummy Theodoric, but it wouldn't do me any good, I'm lactose intolerant :(

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EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!! :disturbd:

Milk
Raw egg
Sherry

Must be the three things I hate most!! :sick:

(BMI of 23.5 BTW)

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Love meat, eggs and milk. Try and cycle about 7m every couple of days to keep in shape.

The article seemed to be about obese people getting extra help from the NHS to tackle their weight problem. I reckon if folk are happy to be fat then let them be fat. There is enough literature available to us all showing the health risks and the ways in which you can lose weight safely.

The only obese folk I have a problem with and who I think need special care are those people who get so fat that they cannot care for themselves anymore. These cases should be picked up by GP's as early as possible and special care should be given to them to stop them getting to the stage where they cannot even go outside their house.

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just been reading about it to learn a bit more, it said the degree of intolerance varies & matured cheeses may be ok for some - do you have to avoid all dairy products, dellwear?

This sounded a bit yuck though

This topic of how food/metabolism/activity level/genetics is related to obesity is fascinating, because every time we seem to find a pattern, we find other evidence that seems to contradict it - the recent "it isn't beer that causes beer bellies" results, are a case in point.

One concept I havn't seen in the thread is that of "brown fat" - apparently a different kind of fat that can convert stored energy into heat?

I should declare that I am 5'4" & weigh just under 9 stone (56Kg) :erm:

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I avoid milk, and cheese as much as possible and have soya milk, but I do love Mature cheese so I have some every now and again. I'm not that allergic, I don;t go into anaphylactic shock or anything but if I have too much I swell and get very red and itchy!

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Ah yeah for the sake of the survey I should also say I'm 5' 4" and about 8 stone 9.

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Where do you get your protein from, or your essential fatty acids, or omega 3?
Do you take suppliments?
And don't you miss not being able to eat jelly(jelo) at parties? :D

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careful with the soya milk - it may be oestrogenic;)

those symptoms sound more like an allergic response, than an intolerance? Inability to digest lactose mainly makes you fart & have diaorrhea? - not go blotchy?

Theoretically, fungus infected cheese like stilton would also contain less lactose - how do you react to them?

\realises the experiment could be dangerous:)

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:rolleyes:

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eat healthy - exercise, you are not wrong - but 1 out of 2 may have to do?:)

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:rofl:

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That explains the breasts then!:D
Or you could just have goats or sheeps cheese then, yum!

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feta accompli?:D