QuantumAphid

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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Some information about fiber for consideration. Dr. Zoë Harcombe - 'What about fiber?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrmpK_Lckg
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
"I will have to strongly caution against going long term carnivore or keto, however." I tend to agree here. Again it gets back to your goals. (Strict) Carnivore and (strict) keto are great tools to achieve your diet/fitness g
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Cooking usually changes some of the vitamin/nutrient content, but honestly if you like cooked fish, cook it. If you prefer sushi/sashimi, go for that. With diet try not to let perfection get in the way of obvious improvements. I c
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
The whole world is developing an anti-meat bias, and it's going to come at the cost of our collective health. About 60% of Western diet is plant-based already, in the form of sugar, flour, seed-oils and processed foods. Continuing to p
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
https://chriskresser.com/natures-most-potent-superfood/
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Some articles to consider: Myths and Truths about Fiber https://chriskresser.com/myths-and-truths-about-fiber/ The hot air and cold facts of dietary fibre https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
To be honest, the guy looks like he's physically wasting away before our very eyes.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Not so. A person can get a complete range of essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals by eating a balanced and varied diet (which includes plants and animal foods). Some diets, including a standard american diet but especially exclusionar
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Cute. "liver and onions." I'm very fit and in excellent health. 50 year old male, a performance athlete, 6'4" 230 lbs, 14% body fat (i.e., lean and muscular). BP is 120/65, lipid panel is: Total: 235 HDLC: 69 L
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Nope. Lack of fiber is not a cause of colon cancer. A more objective view of the science is: “...the interactions between meat, gut and health outcomes such as CRC [colorectal cancer] are very complex and are not clearly pointing in one dir
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
This advice applies to virtually all other foods as well, so...
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
It's usually best to start out with your goals. What is your primary goal? Weight loss, fitness, longetivity? If it's weight loss, there are generally three (successful) ways to go about it: 1. Change nothing in your diet, but eat
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Roughly opposite percentages for me. I eat about 80% animal (protein + fat). My plants come from liver and onions, and eat lentils (for molybdenum) and some tomatoes once a week. If I want a crunchy cracker for paté, I'll eat some was
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
True. I cook with ghee (clarified butter) most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cookin...
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
I'm talking about whether or not they are essential. I eat very little plants and don't have any problems. I also practice fasting from time to time, and I don't have any problems with no food of any kind for days at a time.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Except that as a vegan you will need to take supplements in order to fill many of the nutrient gaps in the diet. Very noble diet/ethos for many reasons, but it is not optimized for nutrition, it's optimized for other goals.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
"Plant foods are vastly more nutritious than animal sources." Well, the question I responded to was about inexpensive nutrient-dense foods. Based on this organ meats, eggs and fish/shellfish beats plant foods all to hell. &qu
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Do whatever works for you. Try different diets, you might be surprised.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Everybody is different. Some people tolerate fiber well. Others have gut issues (e.g. diversticulitis, colitis) or overdo it and end up with digestive problems. From what I've read, the fiber guidelines are basically made-up and not ba
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Probably the best food you can put in your body, bar none. It depends what you like. Most people don't care for organ meats, which is why they're so cheap. In general, any of those organs from cattle/bison, sheep, goats, pigs
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Multivitamins are not food, at least not natural whole food. They're supplements, as in to supplement any gap in vitamins from eating actual food.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Canned mackerel generally has mercury at levels near that of salmon. King Mackerel is known to contain a lot of mercury, but that is a different species of Mackerel which is quite large (in general, larger predatory fish have greater concen
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Agree on all counts except the sunflower oil. In general, avoid seed/vegetable oils, especially if they are used in high-heat cooking as in this example. Vegetable/seed oils are not whole foods or naturally stable. They are modern
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Rice, lentils, beans, all are much less nutrient dense than most animal foods. It's important to account for the fact that plant foods often come with antinutrients (lectins, phytates, oxalates) which block absorption of vitamins. Most
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Not even in the same league of nutrient density as the foods I listed. I like them for variety more than for nutrient density.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
To a lesser extent, yes. The balance tilts more toward energy/calories than nutrients, but I am a big fan of butter too.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Canned/tinned.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Agreed. Mackerel is absolutely fantastic. If you enjoy seafood, I definitely wouldn't bother with pills or powders.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Here you go: Liver, heart, kidney, eggs, canned mackerel/sardines/oysters/clams. Hard to beat these-- they usually range from dirt cheap to cheap-when-on-sale/discount.
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by QuantumAphid 7y ago
Perhaps you did not eat meat, but you almost certainly ate animal products of some form (eggs, butter, milk, cheese, yogurt, human breast milk or formula when you were an infant, etc.) which is all the animal-based foods you need to obtain

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