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My favourite research is that quality nutrition is what you need, however, this means a whole food, plant based diet. What that means is no animal fats or refin
by Theodores 2y ago
My favourite research is that quality nutrition is what you need, however, this means a whole food, plant based diet. What that means is no animal fats or refined animal fats as these have been blocking arteries since the 1950s, or whenever it was that Ancel Keys did his landmark studies that made saturated fats bad.
I am okay with that.
The keto diet community believe that Ancel Keys was not right and that sugar is the enemy that causes all of the problems, probably including blocked brain arteries. The whole food, plant based diet does not include refined sugar, so, hedge your bets by staying off the animal fats and added sugar. By staying off the sugar, that eliminates processed foods that invariably have refined fats and oils such as palm oil and much else that gets saturated in processing.
- vhcr 2y agoThis is so out of touch, having a healthy diet is obviously going to help reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, but it is in no way the ultimate cure.
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- bitwize 2y agoYou must be new here. Hackernews has known for some time things that mainstream science has yet to fully understand: namely, that diet dominates as a cause of big-ticket diseases like cancer and dementia, and that Alzheimer's specifically is type 3 diabetes; accordingly, dietary changes, especially fasting and vegan diets, are absolutely 90% cures.
- km144 2y agoI'm sorry no one got the joke—this website basically just consists of people with high-functioning autism so you probably need a /s on that one
- Theodores 2y agoNot sure why the downvotes. Clearly nobody here wants to look after their arteries.
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- Tagbert 2y agoYou missed your sarcasm tag
- meindnoch 2y agoYou forgot to mention the gut! As in: dude, the gut is like a second brain.
- Theodores 2y agoI am just saying to keep off the HFSS, in line with government policy in the UK. Stay off the saturated fats, the salt and the sugar. The arteries should look after themselves with a modest amount of exercise. And yes, the saturated fats means animal products. There is no crank science there, just no junk food.
- iamacyborg 2y agoCitation needed
- vardhanw 2y agohttps://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/ https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/
- iamacyborg 2y agoPeople fall for this?
- SoftTalker 2y agoHumans have been eating animal fat for millenia. Cutting excess sugar is a good plan though. We would have gotten some from fruits and berries but nothing like the quantities that are included in many foods today.
- aziaziazi 2y agoHumans have been enslaving other humans for millennia, still individuals and organizations stands and fights for freedom equality. On the contrary, industrial farming because possible very recently thanks to antibiotics, international logistics (for food and alive livestock) and modern biocides/fertilizer to grow enough crop for feed.
- mlhpdx 2y agoDuring the summer humans would have gorged on fruit while it was available, as well as ultimately learning to preserve and store it for later. Today that urge does us injustice in the form of 1200 calorie Starbucks at every corner.
- ted_dunning 2y agoHumans have been getting polio, measles and smallpox for millenia as well. That doesn't make them cures for heart disease, except in the morbid sense. Just because people in the medieval times and before did it is no reason to presume that it was good for health.
- Amezarak 2y agoPolio is actually an interesting case. Polio did exist for millennia, but severe outbreaks did not occur until the industrial era. Constant exposure to the virus gave most people natural immunity, and then improved sanitation meant that first exposure often occurred in later childhood or teenage years, when the virus was much more dangerous. > Just because people in the medieval times and before did it is no reason to presume that it was good for health. It is reasonable to assume that if your ancestors for a sufficiently large number of generations ate some diet it means that natural selection has ensured that diet is reasonably optimized for your health.
- meindnoch 2y agoWhy are you vegans always so pushy?
- Theodores 2y agoNot vegan. I just stay off the animal fats, processed food, sugar and salt. That is just being sensible. I believe veganism is ethics first, save the animals. I just don't want to be a vegetable.