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In other words: "tax anyone who doesn't follow my fad diet" Whole grains, fruits, vegetables (and sure meat too) are time and time again show to be healthy com
by elindbe2 6y ago
In other words: "tax anyone who doesn't follow my fad diet"
Whole grains, fruits, vegetables (and sure meat too) are time and time again show to be healthy components of the human diet. Just cutting out the sugar, white flour, and trans fats will take you a long ways.
- jononomo 6y agoWhole grains and white grains both just turn to glucose in your system -- so you're kidding yourself if you think whole grains area healthy in any respect, but especially if you think they are healthy in comparison to white grains. And I'm not sure why you think whole grains have "time and time again" been shown to be healthy components of the human diet. In fact, we have known for hundreds of years that grain-based human societies have suffered shorter stature, more disease, and more dental cavities than hunter-gatherer societies. The ancient Egyptians, for instance, had lots of heart disease, as we can detect from their mummies, and they had an agricultural civilization based on grains grown in the Nile delta.
- elindbe2 6y agoThe same is true for the ancient pre-contact inuit which is probably the closest example we have to a carnivorous population. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/surprise-ancient-inuit-mummy-scans-reveal-possible-heart-disease https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/surprise-ancient-inu... And the Masai, another population eating an animal-heavy diet. https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/95/1/26/167903 https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/95/1/26/167903 All the examples of exceptionally long-lived populations we have (the so-called blue zones) have a plant heavy (but not vegan/vegetarian) diet.