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I'm always perplexed by the tendency to overcomplicate nutrition. With all due respect to your anecdotal experience, I find that food and its apparent effects o

I'm always perplexed by the tendency to overcomplicate nutrition. With all due respect to your anecdotal experience, I find that food and its apparent effects on the body is the biggest source of pseudoscience and modern day wives tales. Look: we're the most evolved, advanced creatures on the planet. People around the world live off of meals as simple as a bowl of rice. You can eat anything, and as long as it provides you some calories for energy and meets some basic macro-nutrient requirements your amazingly efficient human body will process it and you'll continue chugging along.

saulrh 12y ago
> your amazingly efficient human body will process it and you'll continue chugging along Yep! You know how you occasionally read some science-fiction story that spends a paragraph rhapsodizing about some monstrosity that evolved on a death world and can eat anything under the sun? Well, that's us. We live everywhere, we can eat anything. Nothing stops us except hard radiation (and we've even mostly figured that out), hard vacuum (ditto, it's really gravity that keeps us down), and the bottom of the ocean (...getting there). Humanity, fuck yeah.