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You should care more about fiber than any of the others if health is your goal.

• tptacek 2mo ago
  I'll make sure and let my GP know he was wrong.
  • kingkongjaffa 2mo ago
    Snark 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 2mo ago
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      • ofjcihen 2mo ago
        People 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 2mo ago
          This 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 2mo ago
            I 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 2mo ago
              They didn’t say fibre didnt matter. They disagreed they should care more about fibre than any other.
              • ofjcihen 2mo ago
                > except for fiber, which I don't care enough about to track.
                • tptacek 2mo ago
                  I 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.
                  • eloisius 2mo ago
                    It's too easy just to drink the glass of pysllium husk and not obsess over data entry and trend analysis. You may even learn that your poops are the alerts.
  • witx 2mo ago
    All that snark and you're still wrong, fiber is very important OP is correct
  • cure_42 2mo ago
    Look I know you were being a dick, but that would be great.
    • tptacek 2mo ago
      He laughed.