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Thanks for the thoughtful response >If you were getting that much egg and beef from McDonald’s you would likely be buried in the ground by now. This is my hun

Thanks for the thoughtful response >If you were getting that much egg and beef from McDonald’s you would likely be buried in the ground by now. This is my hunch too, when i really got serious about my diet and health I was worried eating all these eggs and meat was going to cause issues so made sure to get blood tests etc. This sort of started me down the rabbit hole of realizing that almost every single thing I had ever been told about nutrition was either misleading or just flat out wrong. The gut biome stuff is fascinating to me and it feels like it's so underexplored. Can't wait to see what kinds of things we learn about it. One reason I don't think i'm as optimistic as you is that it feels like society doesn't want us to understand this stuff. Between the billion dollar companies influencing regulations, massive marketing budgets of these food-poison companies, and then even the populace doesn't want to know the truth. Everyone just wants to cope and complain and do stupid fad diets instead of learn or change anything.

steve_adams_86 4y ago
Yeah, I absolutely share your concern. There are so many internal and external forces pushing us to take the immediately gratifying path of least resistance. We already know (and have known for decades) that a diet including mostly whole foods based around mostly plants seems to yield populations with far less disease and longer lifespans. It may not fit everyone, but it would certainly work for most people currently suffering. We don’t need to know more about gut flora and protective enzymes to help them; we need to stop hurting them with an overly permissive health industry and sabotaging food processing industry. We’ve had generations of normalizing this stuff. We have intelligent people talking about how statins are game changers and various weight loss drugs are revolutionary. It’s a sort of tragedy to me that we aren’t focused on making these things redundant and eliminating the root problem. It’s like we’ve simply accepted excess and the innate self-abuse of our lifestyles.
- snapcaster 4y ago
  couldn't agree more, I hope we can move to a situation where at least these processed food companies are viewed the same way tobacco companies are (they've even become one and the same in the case of Kraft haha). I had a period in my life where I lost 50 pounds over the course of a year or so and the disappointment people felt when they asked how and I just said "I ate less and exercised more" instead of "1 weird trick" really discouraged me

steve_adams_86 4y ago

Yeah, I absolutely share your concern. There are so many internal and external forces pushing us to take the immediately gratifying path of least resistance. We already know (and have known for decades) that a diet including mostly whole foods based around mostly plants seems to yield populations with far less disease and longer lifespans. It may not fit everyone, but it would certainly work for most people currently suffering. We don’t need to know more about gut flora and protective enzymes to help them; we need to stop hurting them with an overly permissive health industry and sabotaging food processing industry. We’ve had generations of normalizing this stuff. We have intelligent people talking about how statins are game changers and various weight loss drugs are revolutionary. It’s a sort of tragedy to me that we aren’t focused on making these things redundant and eliminating the root problem. It’s like we’ve simply accepted excess and the innate self-abuse of our lifestyles.

snapcaster 4y ago
couldn't agree more, I hope we can move to a situation where at least these processed food companies are viewed the same way tobacco companies are (they've even become one and the same in the case of Kraft haha). I had a period in my life where I lost 50 pounds over the course of a year or so and the disappointment people felt when they asked how and I just said "I ate less and exercised more" instead of "1 weird trick" really discouraged me