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the guy wrote a book on it. so far his evidence far exceeds yours, which is none.
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
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Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
its not. the value of the story of his nephew is a stark zero in terms of providing any kind of valuable information into the conversation.
If the person you replied to wrote their anecdote about their nephew in a book, would you find it credible then?
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I'm sure you are responding with good intentions, that some 'healthy' fats are needed in a healthy diet. The demonization of fat is wrong. But Also Eating 5lbs of Ribs every day and weighing 300 lbs is not healthy. Same with salt. The 'healthy' amount of salt is a U curve. You can have too little, and too much. It's just in the typical American diet, there is so much Fat and so much Salt, that most people area alread…
> Eating 5lbs of Ribs every day and weighing 300 lbs is not healthy. If you started at normal weight and ate 5lbs of ribs (or, till satiety) every day, with as much butter as you'd like, but ZERO carbs or artificial sweeteners , you'd never gain weight, much less get to 300 lbs. That's my point. But don't believe me - this experiment has been done many times. Google: "zero carb" or "Banting diet."
That is the key.
You can eat vegetables until satiety and also not gain weight.
Banting seems to be about non-processed whole foods. So guess I'm doing that.
My point was more, there is a group that goes 'zero carb' and eat really unhealthily. They take it as a license to pile on the ribs. Not that 'zero carb' by itself is unhealthy.
You'll probably say cholesterol is also ok. But plaque buildup does lead to hearth attack's.
"Unfortunately, emerging research shows that a ketogenic diet actually increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. In a young, fit population of CrossFit athletes, following a keto diet for 12 weeks led to an average weight loss of 6 pounds but increased “bad cholesterol” (LDL-C) by a whopping 35%.
Typically, you would expect to see LDL-C levels drop when you lose weight. LDL-C has long been associated with cardiovascular risk because it forms arterial plaques (a cholesterol build-up in the inner lining of arteries), and emerging research that followed people for 12 years has now directly linked long-term ketogenic"
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2023/keto-its-probably-no....
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I carried a CO2 meter on a flight recently, to use CO2 as a proxy for COVID risk. The levels were quite high for the whole flight--over 1000 pretty much the whole time iirc and worse on the tarmac.
How did you calibrate the meter for the changing temperature and pressure? Most CO2 meter designs are extremely sensitive to pressure changes.
Now that's some serendipitous reading. I've been on the hunt for possible mechanisms (for further study) as to why last year after trying an SSRI (escitalopram), to treat an anxiety disorder co-morbid to my ASD, that I ended up in the hospital in a hypertensive crisis. Was an all around terrible experience and I hope one day I can figure out WTF happened to me. Interestingly the BP rise seemed to be mostly diastolic…
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Could you elaborate on what you mean by "novel social conditions"?
ASD diagnoses have skyrocketed in the past few decades (years?) with no clear cause. I'm just old enough to remember a childhood without cell phones - we didn't have a computer in my house until middle school but we were lower income than most of my friends - and people are definitely inside more and outside less than they were when I was 8 or 9 years old. It seems like a plausible theory.