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If it includes all ingredients, cooking method, and weight in exact grams, it’s probably reasonably accurate.
by keiferski 3mo ago
If it includes all ingredients, cooking method, and weight in exact grams, it’s probably reasonably accurate.
- tptacek 3mo agoFor basically anything but chicken I give exact gram weights of proteins and of any fats or carbs. I generally don't give it any precision about vegetables that won't drive protein, fat, or carbs. Most meal components aren't going to meaningfully change the macro breakdown except for fiber, which I don't care enough about to track.
- cure_42 3mo agoYou should care more about fiber than any of the others if health is your goal.
- tptacek 3mo agoI'll make sure and let my GP know he was wrong.
- kingkongjaffa 3mo agoSnark aside, your GP took one module on nutrition in medical school, years ago. Doctors are not experts in nutrition. Most modern western diets lack fibre the most so eating more fibre is a sensible recommendation for basically everyone.
- tptacek 3mo ago[flagged]
- ofjcihen 3mo agoPeople are trying to tell you something that can literally save your life. Colon cancer rates are increasing at a breakneck pace. Chill with the snark for a second and realize you may not be the smartest person in every room.
- tptacek 3mo agoThis is going to be a funny thread to show my doctor. I think something that isn't getting through to people is: I'm not taking The Internet's advice on this stuff; I hired a person to handle these questions for me. Highly recommended!
- ofjcihen 3mo agoI quite literally, right at this moment, am sitting next to a friend who is a doctor with a focus on nutrition and they are saying that whoever told you that fiber doesn’t matter is going against almost all of the modern understanding of health science and research. His advice is literally “He needs to just Google it.”
- IanCal 3mo agoThey didn’t say fibre didnt matter. They disagreed they should care more about fibre than any other.
- ofjcihen 3mo ago> except for fiber, which I don't care enough about to track.
- tptacek 3mo agoI can't recommend enough that you go build your own tracker that graphs your fiber intake, shows trends, and alerts if you're under threshold. It's not hard! I do that for protein, and it's been very valuable.
- witx 3mo agoAll that snark and you're still wrong, fiber is very important OP is correct
- cure_42 2mo agoLook I know you were being a dick, but that would be great.
- tptacek 2mo agoHe laughed.