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Sure it could. You can't just isolate some portion of a highly complex system and claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial in any similar system. Jus

Sure it could. You can't just isolate some portion of a highly complex system and claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial in any similar system. Just for an extreme example to make the point - say some diet included a poisonous component as well as the antidote. Those eating the diet may well be just fine. However if somebody else simply looked at the poisonous part and copied only that, they would not do so well. I'm not saying sweet potatoes are bad. And I'm sure this was a somewhat flippant statement, but this is the kind of thinking we're very prone to and I think it's important to recognize when it actually tries to lead us down the wrong path.

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treeman79 5y ago
Yea. Never eat only one food for extended periods. This was a pure desperation move.
- nwienert 5y ago
  It’s actually common for immune/allergy issues, I did rice once on a doctors recommendation, worked fine.
nwienert 5y ago
It was a flippant statement, but it’s still more right than your righteous reply. I have experience here, literally with isolation diets for immune issues on starches, common for immunologists to run, see AIP which can start extreme down to one thing. I had a friend who had to do a super intense version, luckily, mine was quick. There’s no problem with flippant statements, just bad faith replies that try and pick fights over nothing. Also didn’t claim benefit. It’s potato. If there were some significant problem we’d have known by now.
- foerbert 5y ago
  I never said it was bad either. I was specifically taking umbrage with the reasoning provided - X does a lot of Y in their complex thing and gets good results, so lots of Y can't be bad - and tried to be clear about that.
  - nwienert 5y ago
    > claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial > gets good results You claim I said it’s “good”, but I said “can’t be bad” in relation to a short term allergy diet. Your super pedantic bone you picked is based on exaggerating what I said twice and generalizing it out of context, which is funny coming from a pedant.

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treeman79 5y ago

Yea. Never eat only one food for extended periods. This was a pure desperation move.

nwienert 5y ago
It’s actually common for immune/allergy issues, I did rice once on a doctors recommendation, worked fine.

nwienert 5y ago

It was a flippant statement, but it’s still more right than your righteous reply. I have experience here, literally with isolation diets for immune issues on starches, common for immunologists to run, see AIP which can start extreme down to one thing. I had a friend who had to do a super intense version, luckily, mine was quick. There’s no problem with flippant statements, just bad faith replies that try and pick fights over nothing. Also didn’t claim benefit. It’s potato. If there were some significant problem we’d have known by now.

foerbert 5y ago
I never said it was bad either. I was specifically taking umbrage with the reasoning provided - X does a lot of Y in their complex thing and gets good results, so lots of Y can't be bad - and tried to be clear about that.
- nwienert 5y ago
  > claim that the isolated portion will be beneficial > gets good results You claim I said it’s “good”, but I said “can’t be bad” in relation to a short term allergy diet. Your super pedantic bone you picked is based on exaggerating what I said twice and generalizing it out of context, which is funny coming from a pedant.