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by alkank 2369 days ago
This looked really exciting at first and I signed-up immediately, hoping to stop thinking about "what I should cook tonight?". However after seeing an Oreo milkshake suggestion for lunch time I'm not sure how healthy the recipes are.

If the diet selection included a low-sugar option, then it may be much more useful for me.
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papa_bear 2369 days ago
One of our philosophies is that we don't enforce our own beliefs about what's healthy or not. What's healthy depends largely on the person (and everyone has different opinions), but we're there to help with portioning to make sure you're not eating too much or too little.

For a lifter trying to gain weight, a milkshake might be perfectly fine. For someone trying to lose, it's probably not the most satiating choice, but as long as it fits your targets, shouldn't throw you off your goals. For those people, you can hit the refresh button in the meal until you see something you're happy with.

Not to say there isn't room for improvement - we should probably remove things like milkshakes if your goal is to lose weight, or maybe limit them to marked cheat-days.

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riversflow 2368 days ago
>For a lifter trying to gain weight, a milkshake might be perfectly fine.

Y’all should look into insulin resistance. Huge loads of sugar being bad for you is fairly settled science, with foods that have a High Glycemic Index(GI) being linked to the development of Insulin Resistance. This is only the most tested link between high GI foods and higher all cause mortality[1]. The linked study is on a population of high Cardiovascular risk, however considering the website is for dieting that might make it more relevant. There’s a good reason the WHO guideline for sugar is a maximum of 10% of your caloric intake and a recommendation if 5%.[2]

I want to eat 1800 kcal in 2 vegetarian meals and a sample suggestion is 3 eggs and veggies(which is great) for the first meal, followed by 2 apples and almond butter and 2 bananas with yogurt for the second(labeled lunch). That’s terrible, and going to set my diet up for failure. That’s like 18% of your caloric intake as sugar, and in your last meal no less. You are going to burn through all that sugar and then feel hungry/hangry as hell when the insulin load in your body doesn’t match your blood sugar.

Seriously, the way your website treats sugar is completely negligent considering it’s proposition is that it’s an alternative to counting macros. I’d love to be able to suggest your website but my impression today is awful.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176720/

[2]https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-gui...

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