Are there any weight loss benefits for splitting meals into smaller meals, other than getting less hungry because of more frequent consumption? Apparently metabolism increases, but this is deemed a myth.
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I wonder if there any difference in how many times I eat per day?  Let's say I eat one big meal in the morning at 2000 kcal (at 9am). Is that any different than having 4 meals at 500 kcal throughout the day (at 9am, 1pm, 5pm, 9pm)?  I think I will be hungry by the end of the day if I eat just once in the morning. But I won't be hungry if I eat 4 times a day at smaller portions? How is that possible?  Which way is it better to eat? Maybe twice a day at 1000 kcal? (9am and like 4pm?)
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Now I feel sick. I wish I [didn't eat/hadn't eaten] pork with cheese for dinner.   I would use "hadn't eaten" as it was my dinner but "now I feel sick" confuses me.
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Just read this which basically says you can freeze and thaw food in the fridge any number of times.    I'm still unclear on one point. If I had food which would be good in the fridge for 4 days and i put it in the freezer after 3 days, when I put it back in the fridge is my food good after its thawed for another 4 days or 1 more day?
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One of my advisor's students asked me how frequently I have meetings with him. And since at that time we had very few meetings I replied:      "We have a very few meetings and the advisor does not allocate time to me."    The advisor heard it and has started retaliating by reducing those few meetings to zero and complaining about me to other faculty, etc. Do you have suggestions about what I should do now?
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A colleague asked me this question, and I couldn't come up with an answer that satisfied him, so I'm wondering if anyone can help:  Why does a man with a short temper become a short-tempered man? In other words, why do you need the -ed at the end?  Are there any special rules for this?
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Mouseover text: And yet I never stop thinking, 'sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal, but think how many meals I'll get out of them! Especially since each one will have leftovers!'    Randall Munroe really hit the nail on the head with this comic and especially the mouseover text. There's this sort of cycle that I seem to follow when I try cooking, and I need to get my way out of it. It goes like this:   Decide I should cook something. Thumb through my recipe books, find one or two recipes I like. Write down the ingredients for the recipes in a list. Go to the grocery store, stumble around for a while and eventually find exactly those ingredients. Go back home; at some point in time soon after, cook each recipe. Whew, that was a lot of work! Spend the next week or two eating junk again, until I decide I should cook something. (repeat)   Very similar to the comic; sometimes I too let the leftovers go bad (usually not). And every time I rack up a huge bill at the supermarket and think to myself it's justified because of the leftovers or the amount of food. Not to mention, that's a lot of work for just a couple of meals, and a long list of ingredients.  I love cooking fresh meals but that's just so much overhead and so time consuming! So I always resort back to Easy Mac, Ramen, frozen dinners and frozen pizza. Yuck.  How can I escape this cycle and cut down on the overhead? How can I focus on more than 2 recipes at a time without buying giant lists of ingredients and spending tons of money? Is it really worth the trouble or should I just chock it up to being a college student and wonder about the years ahead of me where I'll have much more time to spend cooking one meal at a time?
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I switched to a vegetarian diet a while back, and I am now taking a few supplements consisting of common minerals, vitamins and omega-3's as a compliment to my regular diet.  When should I take the supplements to ensure that they are absorbed most effectively?  Does it matter what time of day it is, and does it matter what else I have in my stomach at the time?  I have read that some vitamins are fat soluble – does that mean that they should be taken with a meal? If taken with a meal – does eating a lot of food reduce "digestion efficiency" of the supplements?    What I have done, which is based entirely on my own thoughts, which are not based on any particular research:  I have been taking my supplements during the afternoon a few hours before dinner. At around 5 pm, body metabolism is at a high, and I usually don't have a lot of food in my stomach. My thinking has therefore been that the body will be efficient at absorbing the contents of the supplements.  I have avoided taking supplements in the morning because I am a morning coffee-drinker, and caffeine is laxative.
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I don't understand why darker skin is advantageous in hotter climates. Wouldn't it absorb more of the heat? I have heard that it reduces the incidence of cancer, but I would think absorbing more radiation would increase the risk?
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Following from this question: :  Is there any evidence that human bodies have systemic self-destruction built into their developmental program? I'm not talking about the cell death response, which I know is an important part of growth, development and cancer prevention.  I've read some things about telomere-shortening but don't know if this is a cause or an effect.
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Is there any difference between     I am not having a lunch tomorrow.   and     I am not having lunch tomorrow.   This is a follow up question of : .
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I've now learned (from this site) that broth and stock are not the same product (see ).   So, in any given scenario, why should one use stock rather than broth, or vice versa? i.e. What's the practical difference?   EDIT: I'm mostly looking for when to use one vs the other.
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This is a maxim that I hear frequently, especially as a defense of cooking methods that don't produce a lot of aroma: if the aroma is in the air, it means it's left the food.  As an example, some people complain about the lack of aroma produced in sous vide cooking, to which the sous vide advocates retort that this is evidence that more flavor is in the food.  Likewise, I recently saw , where he went for a low-and-slow approach that produces little aroma: here, too, he claimed the flavor-retention defense to its lack of appeal. "Don't be disappointed, but my roasting technique doesn't flood your kitchen with good Sunday roast smells. This is a good thing, because smells are lost flavor" he said, while "SMELL = LOST FLAVOR" popped up on the screen.    I suppose it stands to reason, and that's the appeal of this explanation, but is it the truth? Does smelling a food necessarily imply that the final product will be less flavorful, and is it strictly because the aroma is escaping?
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I've recently started using a slow cooker and I was thinking about recipes that could be cooked for days.  My main concern is if there are any side effects for leaving food cooking for days that would make this plan unfeasible (dangerous to try).  Since it is at cooking temperature, there wouldn't be any reason to worry about bacteria growing on the food.  Liquid would be lost over time, which could result in burning if left unchecked, but if I add more every morning/night as needed, that too wouldn't be a problem.  All I can see is that most recipes wouldn't end up tasting as well, but undesirable isn't equal to dangerous.  There just seems to be something absurd with the notion of leaving food cooking for 5 days or even 2 weeks without there being any dangers, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what they would be.
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Does the Hulk actually need to consume food, or is Bruce Banner's normal dietary intake enough? I'm asking because it seems transforming from the Hulk back to Bruce Banner with a half a cow in his stomach could be rough on the poor Doctor.
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Recently, I heard some talks about Optimization. And I am beginning to love that field.  I want to study beginning optimization, what book can you recommend for me? Also what tips can you give to a beginner in studying this field?  Thanks a lot.
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Like many young children, my 4.5 year old daughter will often stop eating her supper (6 PMish - she has breakfast and lunch at daycare) and say she's not hungry.  My instinctive initial response is to insist in some fashion because that's what my parents always did.  The assumption seems to be along the lines that they're just being picky or distracted, and will get hungry later, and that they need to learn to eat on a schedule.  But regardless of whether she'll be hungry 3 hours later, what if she really isn't hungry now - aren't I doing her a disservice in her development by ingraining the idea that she should keep eating when she's not hungry?  What should I do, just a gentle reminder that this will be her last meal of the night?
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Is there a possibility to improve the deteriorating eyesight naturally? If yes, how is it possible? If the eye sight continues to get worse, is there a chance of losing eyesight completely?