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That unfortunately only goes so far as to help you avoid (or recognize) food poisoning, and not much more.

• contravariant 9y ago
  Well, I think it also prevents sugar crashes, caffeine spikes and a whole lot of other minor or possibly severe problems. It doesn't automatically create a good diet, but it's better than nothing. And at least we can both agree that it's effective, which is more than you can say for some of the nutrition advice out there. Unless there is a case where feeling weird is actually a good thing, but I can only come up with fairly extreme examples where that would be the case, which comes closer to medicine than nutrition.
  • ovao 9y ago
    A good point about sugar. Sugar’s interesting, though, in that it produces a kind of euphoria before it results in the feeling of crashing (usually moderately long afterward). For that reason it can be difficult to correlate the feeling of crashing with the consumption of sugar, but relatively easy to correlate sugar with the good feeling. Off-hand I can’t think of any food that produces an immediate and significant bad feeling unless it’s rotten, spoiled or otherwise intolerable.