You should probably focus more on sleep if you can. Sleep is perhaps more important than diet even.

The reason you have a rapid heartbeat is likely due to sleep and not the food that you ate.

The rapid heart beat sounds to me like when I haven’t had food in a long time and the body is doing all it can to distribute the energy as fast as possible. Could be other reasons too of course.

Yep, I 100% agree with that! It’s very hard when I’ve go a million things going on with grad school. :( Working on HW until 1am, falling asleep around 2-3am, waking up at 6:30. I’m working on getting this resolved. I’ve resorted to caffeine to keep me alive throughout the day lol, which is really not great.

I’ve gotta disagree with you there: (i) My body always reacts to added sugar in this exact way. My parents told me they wouldn’t even let me eat sugar until I was in kindergarten, I would always become extremely hyper. (ii) I ate my dinner only 7hr prior, and had actually had my standard kale cottage cheese thing with the parfait not too long prior to the waffle. I don’t eat anything between breakfast and dinner (i.e. typically 8am through 12am).

I traveled a lot for work. Without restaurants I would have been in deep trouble.

Yeah, a few weeks ago we were on vacation in London, and in our favorite pub, every item of the menu had information about the "kilo calories" (kcal):

This should be mandatory for all restaurants! 

Nutritional information should be required to be clearly shown. But other than that no.

Food is meant to be enjoyed, in moderation. It's good to eat for health benefits, but to always treat it like medicine and never for gratification is like living in a world without colour. Sounds awful.

Seems like you are living in the "wrong" country then:

Yes this was brought in as a law in the last few years. Only applies to companies of a certain size, so independent places don't have to, but bigger chains are required to list calories for everything.

Regulation for sure. Banning no.

That's one thing yep, my wife has to avoid salt for a heart condition. Sodium and sugar content are important for medical conditions, as well as cholesterol. 

I do know that some icecream in the supermarket like Ben & Jerries, have warning labels on them, extra high in saturated fats and sugars, next to it being on the nutrition info already.

We never go out to eat anymore, my wife is also sensitive to butter and restaurants douse everything in it. Not much fun when you're rushing to a toilet every time you go out for dinner. I'm now also used to a low sodium, low fat 'diet', pizza doesn't taste good anymore :/



Soft drinks are funny too. Like Dr Pepper, 42 grams of sugar / 375 ml. Mountain Dew 49 grams per 375ml, 49% of daily needs. One glass and you're over the daily needs lol. (They use 375ml on the 2L bottles here, 355ml (12oz) in cans)

That's what it says here in Canada btw, actually 50 grams (of free sugars) is all you need daily on a 2,000 calorie 'diet'.
Seems it's based on 100 grams daily in Canada.




In the US



310 grams sugar daily?!