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The author does not seem to go into details, so I am curious what actually surprising conclusions can be drawn from wearing one of these devices? Croissants an

The author does not seem to go into details, so I am curious what actually surprising conclusions can be drawn from wearing one of these devices? Croissants and muffins being unhealthy should be no surprise. I am more interested in findings like food that gets a bad rap being not that unhealthy and supposedly healthy food being bad.

Llamamoe 1y ago
Pizza is much more nutritionally complete than you'd think, especially if it has meat(or beans, for some reason), the only real problem is people eat SO MUCH at a time. People also refuse to understand that juice is basically sugar water with some extra flavor, vitamins, and antioxidants that don't change how unhealthy it is for you. White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients. Fastfood is heavily processed but often contains enough vegetables, meat, etc to not be that bad all things told.
- petesergeant 1y ago
  > White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients. I am reasonably sure carbohydrates are nutrients.
- hombre_fatal 1y ago
  > White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients. You should fact check your intuitions about nutrition on cronometer.com. 2 cups of cooked white rice have 17% of the days nutrients for 20% (400) of the calories (2000cal/day). 47% of the day's iron, 33% of the day's folate. 20-30% of almost every B-vitamin. 25% copper, 65% manganese, 43% selenium, 14% of the day's zinc. Also look at 500g of boiled potato. Someone in this thread called it pure carbs. Ok, pure carbs that give you 27% of the day's nutrients for just 18% of the day's calories? That's a great deal.
  - Llamamoe 1y ago
    Other than folate and B12, the B vitamins are the most common nutrients, they're not really a point in rice's favor. And other than manganese, the other figures you quote are MUCH higher than the sources I'm looking at. Are you sure you're not looking at enriched rice, or an unusually nutrient-rich strain? Because rice absolutely is the least nutritive staple crop of the ones commonly consumed in the first world.
jaggs 1y ago
One of the more interesting findings is the impact of combining different food intakes at the same time. It can have a significant effect in lowering spikes.

Llamamoe 1y ago

Pizza is much more nutritionally complete than you'd think, especially if it has meat(or beans, for some reason), the only real problem is people eat SO MUCH at a time. People also refuse to understand that juice is basically sugar water with some extra flavor, vitamins, and antioxidants that don't change how unhealthy it is for you. White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients. Fastfood is heavily processed but often contains enough vegetables, meat, etc to not be that bad all things told.

petesergeant 1y ago
> White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients. I am reasonably sure carbohydrates are nutrients.
hombre_fatal 1y ago
> White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients. You should fact check your intuitions about nutrition on cronometer.com. 2 cups of cooked white rice have 17% of the days nutrients for 20% (400) of the calories (2000cal/day). 47% of the day's iron, 33% of the day's folate. 20-30% of almost every B-vitamin. 25% copper, 65% manganese, 43% selenium, 14% of the day's zinc. Also look at 500g of boiled potato. Someone in this thread called it pure carbs. Ok, pure carbs that give you 27% of the day's nutrients for just 18% of the day's calories? That's a great deal.
- Llamamoe 1y ago
  Other than folate and B12, the B vitamins are the most common nutrients, they're not really a point in rice's favor. And other than manganese, the other figures you quote are MUCH higher than the sources I'm looking at. Are you sure you're not looking at enriched rice, or an unusually nutrient-rich strain? Because rice absolutely is the least nutritive staple crop of the ones commonly consumed in the first world.

jaggs 1y ago

One of the more interesting findings is the impact of combining different food intakes at the same time. It can have a significant effect in lowering spikes.