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High Potassium Low Alk Phos

Pleaser help with any adviceI'm very scared after reading my resultsI have a high potassium level of 6.1 and low all Phos of 38. I keep reading about its connection to kidney failure. I do eat a lot of bananas but lately I haven't so I'm scared even

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Boated tummy :(

Hey all, my tummy has been horribly bloated and gassy lately.I have been eating more starches, but I have before in the past and I haven't had such a problem till now. I've gained a bit of water weight I think, but my tummy is bloated n always sticks

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Help For Science Project

Greetings fellow Veg-heads,

 My daughter just wandered in telling me she wants to get her science project started for this year......not sure when it's due, I'm guessing months. Anyway, she want's to do it about milk. Her school, here in Bangkok, dish

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YOUR RDA OR MINE?

I have noticed an awful lot of talk about meeting RDAs on this website (and others), so thought it would be useful for those interested, to read a brief article on how and why RDAs were first set. You might be surprised (and pleased) to find that you

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White or Brown Rice?

What rice is best to buy? I eat rice on a near daily basis but I'm not sure which I should get: I've been told brown has a higher fat content although it has more nutrients and isn't refined, but I'm not sure whether that makes it the better choice?

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I Have Latex Fruit Syndrome

I am allergic to latex, latex proteins are also found in lactiferous plants or trees.

Latex is a plant defense mechanism & with me being allergic to natural rubber latex from trees this also means I run the risk of having cross-allergic reactions to o

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A rant on calories

Re-posted from an old thread...

It's actually a pretty big (though kinda silly) problem, imho, that 99% of the people who go around talking about (and counting and recommending) calories actually have no idea what the word means. So, inspired by a v

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Watch out for Carrageenan

I just posted this on my tumblr blog. I searched the forum to see if anyone else made a post about carrageenan and I didn't find anything except about seaweed in general. This is something I just read about today and wanted to warn the rest of you to

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A rant on calories - repost

I just wanted to post a link to this topic in someone elses topic and found out the page doesn't exist anymore, so possibly the user has removed his account and posts? it's still findable with the search option but the page doesn't exist, anyway i po

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Movies

Currently watching Food Inc, its so far a great movie. Enjoying it, for the most part...

I've obviously watched earthlings. I was wondering, what other movies are there in this group?

(Just trying to get more information on this subject)

Also non-vegan

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