flexblue

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by flexblue 7y ago
> What is the actual science that anybody on earth suffers from the consumption of beans? "More than half of the world populations are affected by micronutrient malnutrition and one third of world’s population suffers from anemia an
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by flexblue 7y ago
Vitamin B12 supplements require very high doses due to poor bio-availability. You have to ask yourself, could this be a healthy diet when you effectively need a pharmacy to maintain it? What else is your body missing out on that we might
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by flexblue 7y ago
Have you measured it in the blood? Even if your B6 is fine, what about B12? That has even worse bioavailability from plants or supplements. Again, you need to measure it, furthermore B12 takes years to deplete.
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by flexblue 7y ago
> I have good blood markers after 6 years on this diet. LDL of 52. BP of 101/74. So for me this diet is way healthier than the omnivorous diet that I had before. Perhaps, but we're talking about nutritional deficiencies, have y
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by flexblue 7y ago
> People eat beans for decades. Why should this be an experiment? People also eat donuts for decades, that means nothing. People didn't eat beans for hundreds of thousands of years. They're not a "natural" part of t
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by flexblue 7y ago
> I did my research. Also I tracked my nutrition with Cronometer in the first weeks. Not a single day did I miss on B-vitamins. If you didn't have any animal foods, you're going to be missing out on B-vitamins, because of low b
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by flexblue 7y ago
> It's been my breakfast for decades, I'm quite healthy, and eat a diet almost entirely composed of raw produce. The rest is nuts/seeds/legumes and canned fish. You get virtually all of your macronutrients from the nu
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by flexblue 7y ago
Without any further context, this is most likely not a healthy diet. You're certainly missing out on B vitamins and heme iron due to lack of meat and likely have a poor Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio due to the use of plant oils over other f
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by flexblue 7y ago
Bananas by themselves are not healthy food, they're very high in sugar and have little else to offer. Produce may look cheap, but if you add up the macros (and also some of the micros), it doesn't look cheap at all.
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by flexblue 7y ago
In the context of T2 diabetes, white rice is a high GI food. Brown rice, legumes and grains contain plant toxins and antinutrients which are poorly researched, but at least anecdotally can cause all kinds of issues especially in sensitive p
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by flexblue 7y ago
> Healthy food is typically less expensive than junk food. This isn't true, at least in the US. Or maybe we have a very different idea about what "healthy" food is. Rice, beans and starchy vegetables are problematic for va
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by flexblue 7y ago
What's wrong with (intermittent) fasting? Of course if you don't raise your blood sugar as much by changing the diet, your HbA1c goes down by definition. However, limiting your feeding window will naturally reduce the amount of ti
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by flexblue 7y ago
As other have noted, someone caught on to the simplicity of RPC. It always baffled me how so-called RESTful APIs became popular, despite virtually all of them being RPC APIs with a veneer of rather pointless HTTP semantics. Virtually none o
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by flexblue 7y ago
> It is used in Germany, the Nederlands, and Switzerland I think. Germany today has a public/private mixture, Switzerland and Netherlands is fully private. I'm making this distinction because private profits do exist in these
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by flexblue 7y ago
Then it's not a compulsory purchase, it's a tax. The money doesn't go to the insurer. Even before the penalty was $0, it was too low to be effective. In Switzerland, it is compulsory to purchase insurance, there's a ba
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by flexblue 7y ago
> The difference is GKV being the default, and opting out of that kind of hard. It's not hard at all, just go self-employed and you have the option. > And the step is intentionally hard to reverse. Yes, so that people towards th
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by flexblue 7y ago
Doesn't insurance in the US cover these cases? I think it ultimately comes down to whether people can afford healthcare or not. For instance, healthcare costs are covered with unemployment benefits in Germany. If you don't have in
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by flexblue 7y ago
Quote: "(x + y) is an expression rather than a statement. The J programmer can embed (x + y) in a larger expression, perhaps a matrix multiplication (w +/ . * (x + y)) which adds the equivalent of three more nested loops, but is s
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by flexblue 7y ago
> Because for-profit healthcare is immoral, wasteful, and inevitably results in scenarios like the above. There's no such thing as a healthcare system where nobody profits in some way. Lots of people working in "non-profit&quot