Dr.PulmRoch said:A sustained drop to 1,100 or 1,200 calories reliably under-delivers a predictable set: B12, vitamin D, iron, folate, zinc and magnesium.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.
Worth separating that from micronutrient cover, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
PedsEndoPhilly said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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View ResultsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
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