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Interesting how important an animal's diet can be, something I didn't fully appreciate. Also it's nice to see accounts of how science semi-functioned historica
by alexandercrohde 7y ago
Interesting how important an animal's diet can be, something I didn't fully appreciate.
Also it's nice to see accounts of how science semi-functioned historically. I'm fascinated by the role of human-factors in our attempts at objective-science.
- cainxinth 7y agoYou are what you eat eats.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoThat's cute, but partially false, and is the main reason animals eating other animals exists. Obligate carnivores, as an example, eat other animals not as a shortcut to the diets of the other animals, but because the other animals' livers manufacture amino acids that the obligate carnivores' livers do not.
- pierrec 7y agoShould be "You are what what you eat eats." Chaining more also works nicely: "You are what what what you eat eats eats," or, "You are what what what what what what you eat eats eats eats eats eats," and so on. All of which are true in some small proportion, of course.
- taneq 7y agoYou find this out pretty quickly when you have kids. The mother's diet has a huge affect on her milk (and thence, on the infant).
- jacobolus 7y agoDo you have an example of these huge effects you observed?
- taneq 7y agoYep, a couple. First one, if the mum eats anything spicy, it gets passed on through the milk and the kid gets colicky. Secondly, one of ours has a milk protein allergy. If the mum drinks cow's milk, the baby gets nasty nappy rash. Both completely repeatable, and tried enough times to go beyond anecdata (imnsho).
- beagle3 7y agoOne example: Mom drinks coffee close to breastfeeding makes babies hyper and unable to sleep