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Breathing

palata 1y ago
Not sure I would call that an addiction. Sugar is one: almost everybody consumes way too much sugar and would be incapable of reducing that to a healthy amount. I am including myself, pretty sure you're part of the club. I wouldn't say that we breath "too much".
- menzoic 1y ago
  Studies on rats have shown significant similarities between sugar consumption and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, dependence, and reward. Some researchers argue that sugar alters mood and induces pleasure in a way that mimics drug effects such as cocaine. In certain experiments, rats even preferred sugar over cocaine, reinforcing the idea that sugar can strongly activate the brain’s reward system
  - djtango 1y ago
    This is somewhat intuitive when you think that sugar is almost pure energy and in a food-scarce existence that we evolved for, energy is synonymous with survival. So alongside reproducing, consuming energy is probably one of the most basic of desires we are hardwired to seek out in more ways than one
- djtango 1y ago
  Sugar is very difficult to unplug from if you don't cook for yourself. Here in Singapore almost every restaurant and hawker is obsessed with jacking their food up with sugar. Worse though is that if they don't the local Singaporean "foodie" hitmen will annihilate the restaurant with poor reviews on Google Maps for being "bland". So eating out is a no go. Cooking again unless you're obsessed with reading packaging or make everything from scratch yourself you're instantly adding more sugar than you know. I have a suspicion that now fruits are also being engineered to be sweeter because apples are way way sweeter than I remember growing up and a lot of the oranges my mother in law buys for me also are blindingly sweet. And yet I feel there's a certain fragrance missing from these sweet fruits...
  - logicchains 1y ago
    Try the Japanese food there, it's less sweet. Singaporean local food is Southern-Chinese style food, which is always very sweet.
    - djtango 1y ago
      Almost every cuisine Singapore serves will be sweeter relative to the authentic recipe. For example Korean food here is so sweet my wife thought she doesn't like Korean cuisine until she went to Seoul. Japanese food is definitely healthier in many respects although there's still a lot of sugar hiding in sushi for example, and oyakodon, teriyaki and katsudon sauces are also often quite sweet. Shabu shabu is better but so are most hotpots in a clear soup
      - linhns 1y ago
        I lived in SG for 6 years of my life, have to resort to self cooking and western food because of exactly what you pointed out here.
      - tayo42 1y ago
        Sushi rice might as well be candy
  - porridgeraisin 1y ago
    > now fruits are also being engineered to be sweeter Yes. But it's not by injecting sugar into fruits like many people think. Farmers including the one next to my rural alt house: - Take consultancy of agritech and selectively breed variants that are sweeter [0] - Optimize min(fruits/tree-or-vine) to concentrate sugars in remaining fruits. [1] - Ethylene-based post-pluck ripening to convert some starch to sugars and make it sweeter. [2] - and more. Richer the farmer, the more sophisticated the techniques. If you want truly fresh natural fruits, buy from a poor farmer directly and pay for logistics yourself. They have to be poor because well, they have to sell at market rate. Tragedy of the commons and all that. And logistics chains depend on fruits being fairly resilient. The logistics loss for natural fruits is 30-50% depending on the fruit. So yeah you need to pay 3x as well. [1] this technique leads to lesser minerals, polyphenols, vit c etc in fruits. "Crowding out". [2] this technique leads to less fiber formation since there's no time for polysacs to form. Major reason for fiber deficiency today according to agtech person I know is that people are eating fruits the same way their grandparents did, but whoops, you don't get enough anymore. [0] They are bred to naturally do the above two things. Mostly, they are bred to autocatalyctically generate ethylene earlier. If your country is in the business of exporting fruits, then the farmer has to compete with the whole world, and the tragedy of the commons mentioned above goes global. So every effect mentioned above multiplies 2-3x. Because it has to be even more logistics friendly, supply has to be really uniform due to expensive GTM, etc,.
- noduerme 1y ago
  Smoking is much harder to quit.
- unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
  Restaurant food is optimized for everything but healthfulness. Portion size, saturated fat, excessive salt, sugar, sometimes alcohol, low fiber— the industry has defined itself as an extension of the junk food industry. Which is ironic! Because pretty much the only food I would be willing to pay a premium for would be healthy food, demonstrably healthy food.
- HKH2 1y ago
  Keto is not that hard. It's only hard if you like convenient food because almost all food products are geared towards sugar/carb addicts.
unkulunkulu 1y ago
thinking then, that requires the extra oxygen
fragmede 1y ago
The reason it isn't, is because it's automatic. Your brain keeps you breathing as much as it can (if you hold your breath until you pass out, your brain will start breathing again for you). Breathing isn't reward driven. It doesn't engage the dopamine system the same way, eg cocaine does. You don't become tolerant to breathing the same way you do, eg cocaine. Lastly, for something to qualify for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), they need to keep doing it, despite social and health ramifications of continued use in the face of developing a tolerance for it. Other than some edgelord shit, no one's gonna give you shit for continuing to breath.
- card_zero 1y ago
  * Unless you have central hypoventilation syndrome, AKA Ondine's curse, where you can only breathe consciously. * The worst addictions, i.e. all the ones really worthy of the name, punish you (or kill you) if you stop.

Breathing

Not sure I would call that an addiction. Sugar is one: almost everybody consumes way too much sugar and would be incapable of reducing that to a healthy amount. I am including myself, pretty sure you're part of the club. I wouldn't say that we breath "too much".

menzoic 1y ago
Studies on rats have shown significant similarities between sugar consumption and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, dependence, and reward. Some researchers argue that sugar alters mood and induces pleasure in a way that mimics drug effects such as cocaine. In certain experiments, rats even preferred sugar over cocaine, reinforcing the idea that sugar can strongly activate the brain’s reward system
- djtango 1y ago
  This is somewhat intuitive when you think that sugar is almost pure energy and in a food-scarce existence that we evolved for, energy is synonymous with survival. So alongside reproducing, consuming energy is probably one of the most basic of desires we are hardwired to seek out in more ways than one
djtango 1y ago
Sugar is very difficult to unplug from if you don't cook for yourself. Here in Singapore almost every restaurant and hawker is obsessed with jacking their food up with sugar. Worse though is that if they don't the local Singaporean "foodie" hitmen will annihilate the restaurant with poor reviews on Google Maps for being "bland". So eating out is a no go. Cooking again unless you're obsessed with reading packaging or make everything from scratch yourself you're instantly adding more sugar than you know. I have a suspicion that now fruits are also being engineered to be sweeter because apples are way way sweeter than I remember growing up and a lot of the oranges my mother in law buys for me also are blindingly sweet. And yet I feel there's a certain fragrance missing from these sweet fruits...
- logicchains 1y ago
  Try the Japanese food there, it's less sweet. Singaporean local food is Southern-Chinese style food, which is always very sweet.
  - djtango 1y ago
    Almost every cuisine Singapore serves will be sweeter relative to the authentic recipe. For example Korean food here is so sweet my wife thought she doesn't like Korean cuisine until she went to Seoul. Japanese food is definitely healthier in many respects although there's still a lot of sugar hiding in sushi for example, and oyakodon, teriyaki and katsudon sauces are also often quite sweet. Shabu shabu is better but so are most hotpots in a clear soup
    - linhns 1y ago
      I lived in SG for 6 years of my life, have to resort to self cooking and western food because of exactly what you pointed out here.
    - tayo42 1y ago
      Sushi rice might as well be candy
- porridgeraisin 1y ago
  > now fruits are also being engineered to be sweeter Yes. But it's not by injecting sugar into fruits like many people think. Farmers including the one next to my rural alt house: - Take consultancy of agritech and selectively breed variants that are sweeter [0] - Optimize min(fruits/tree-or-vine) to concentrate sugars in remaining fruits. [1] - Ethylene-based post-pluck ripening to convert some starch to sugars and make it sweeter. [2] - and more. Richer the farmer, the more sophisticated the techniques. If you want truly fresh natural fruits, buy from a poor farmer directly and pay for logistics yourself. They have to be poor because well, they have to sell at market rate. Tragedy of the commons and all that. And logistics chains depend on fruits being fairly resilient. The logistics loss for natural fruits is 30-50% depending on the fruit. So yeah you need to pay 3x as well. [1] this technique leads to lesser minerals, polyphenols, vit c etc in fruits. "Crowding out". [2] this technique leads to less fiber formation since there's no time for polysacs to form. Major reason for fiber deficiency today according to agtech person I know is that people are eating fruits the same way their grandparents did, but whoops, you don't get enough anymore. [0] They are bred to naturally do the above two things. Mostly, they are bred to autocatalyctically generate ethylene earlier. If your country is in the business of exporting fruits, then the farmer has to compete with the whole world, and the tragedy of the commons mentioned above goes global. So every effect mentioned above multiplies 2-3x. Because it has to be even more logistics friendly, supply has to be really uniform due to expensive GTM, etc,.
noduerme 1y ago
Smoking is much harder to quit.
unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Restaurant food is optimized for everything but healthfulness. Portion size, saturated fat, excessive salt, sugar, sometimes alcohol, low fiber— the industry has defined itself as an extension of the junk food industry. Which is ironic! Because pretty much the only food I would be willing to pay a premium for would be healthy food, demonstrably healthy food.
HKH2 1y ago
Keto is not that hard. It's only hard if you like convenient food because almost all food products are geared towards sugar/carb addicts.

unkulunkulu 1y ago

thinking then, that requires the extra oxygen

fragmede 1y ago

The reason it isn't, is because it's automatic. Your brain keeps you breathing as much as it can (if you hold your breath until you pass out, your brain will start breathing again for you). Breathing isn't reward driven. It doesn't engage the dopamine system the same way, eg cocaine does. You don't become tolerant to breathing the same way you do, eg cocaine. Lastly, for something to qualify for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), they need to keep doing it, despite social and health ramifications of continued use in the face of developing a tolerance for it. Other than some edgelord shit, no one's gonna give you shit for continuing to breath.

card_zero 1y ago
* Unless you have central hypoventilation syndrome, AKA Ondine's curse, where you can only breathe consciously. * The worst addictions, i.e. all the ones really worthy of the name, punish you (or kill you) if you stop.