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more diet silliness. look, this is the ultimate diet: - Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Mostly unprocessed. Nutrition science has come up with so many
by endisneigh 4y ago
more diet silliness.
look, this is the ultimate diet:
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Mostly unprocessed.
Nutrition science has come up with so many contradictory conclusions in the past decades.
- Silverback_VII 4y agoWhy not start eating humans ? this would solve many issues at the same time. More nutritious and ecological than eating plants I suppose.
- jefftk 4y agoThe world death rate is about 8 per 1000 people per year. If there are 50 pounds of edible meat on a body, then human deaths could supply 0.001 pounds per living person. This is also low-quality gamy meat because the average age of death among people is incredibly high for meat animals. Enacting worldwide cannibalism for humans would provide as much additional meat as spending one tenth of a cent per person annually on conventional low-end meat. Not worth the social debate or the medical risk.
- Oarch 4y agoI enjoyed reading this way too much.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoJust watched S4E1 of Always Sunny, "Mac & Dennis: Manhunters", which was a lot of fun. Thank you for supplying this supplementary information.
- swarnie 4y agoSince the median age of death is 82 (78 if free), riddled with an entire pharmacy of modern medicine i suspect that's a very, very unhealthy proposition. May as well eat roadkill.
- Shorel 4y agoA modest proposal
- spacephysics 4y agoI’d even debate mostly plants part. I’m heavily biased due to abiding many plants and focusing on meats resolving much of my auto immune issues, but even something as simple as the above isn’t fully accurate. In my non-scientific, subjective take, I think we’d find more evidence looking into genetic/ancestral links to diets. I know it’s not a new thought, but it may give insights into why some people just handle meat or plants far better than others.
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- chasebank 4y agoI tend to agree, however, it does strike me as odd that when I went on carnivore diet for a couple months, it was the best I had ever felt in my life. First week was awesome, every week after that was a chore. It’s just really boring.
- eska 4y agoI also went carnivore for a few months. Second week sucked because my gut bacteria offed themselves and new ones took a week to develop. Then I could digest food properly again. Eating high quality meet and using different spices made it exciting enough for me. I’ve since added some salad and nuts back into the diet
- throwaway2037 4y agoThis is a good post, and worthy of more study. My point: Your experience is both physical and mental. Both should be measured! In some cultures, this diet is called "keto", which is basically a combo of low carb and high protein. How long did you last and what was the result?
- chasebank 4y agoI was trying to fix gut dysbiosis / SIBO, from a bad case of food poisoning. I was willing to try anything. I slept deeper than ever, it temporarily fixed my stomach problems and I just felt great. I did it for 8 weeks, then transitioned back to regular foods. Now that I’m typing this, makes me want to try it again.
- kcplate 4y ago> this diet is called "keto", which is basically a combo of low carb and high protein Sorry, but this is inaccurate. A Keto diet is basically low carbohydrate and high fat. Protein is generally consumed in relatively moderate amounts on a successful Keto diet. The goal of the keto diet is basically to replace the bodies preferred energy source from using glucose to using fat. Excess protein can be used by the liver to create glycogen and inhibit the bodies ability to burn fat for energy. Excess protein will mean you never reach ketosis, which is the measurement used to determine if your body is burning fat for energy instead of carbs. It’s a common mistake though, because everybody assumes it’s high protein.
- dvh 4y agoAre eggs healthy this year? I lost track...
- goethes_kind 4y agoDo not forget variety as an important heuristic. The more variety the better.
- pessimizer 4y agoIt's partially tautological. "Not too much" communicates no information, it might as well be "eat correctly."
- perrygeo 4y agoBut taken together (I believe the statement should be written with commas instead of periods) that sentence fully answers your question - what is eating correctly? mostly plants, minimally processed. If you do that, you'll have no trouble managing proportions.
- watwut 4y agoIt would be super easy to create malnutrition of some sort with this advice (anemia for instance). You might not even end up managing proportions - it is fairly easy to end up hungry and then binge on bread, nuts, dried fruits or whatever else if the diet don't contain what you need. The right composition of plants does matter great deal.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoWhy would you get anemia by following that advice?
- watwut 4y agoCause you need to eat specific plants to NOT get anemia over time. If your choice of plants is pepper, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, salad, potatoes, you get no iron. You can eat plants and get enough iron (eat beans, also easy with meat), but it happens to be one condition I know about that most random dietary advice easily leads to.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoMeat has iron. They don't say to be vegan, they say to eat mostly plants.