There's a strong link between acne and consumption of dairy products.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-...
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/saving-lives-by-treating-ac...
Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)
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Re: Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)
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My daughter had severe acne. She changed her diet from vegetarian to full vegan and it cleared right up, in fact most of the past scaring is also now gone. She still consumes sugar (vegan sugar - yeah that's a thing: https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/ ) and doesn't take vitamin E or D supplements because she hasn't found any that are 'vegan certified.' Given some of the research we've looked at, our goi…
A lot of people report a huge improvement in their acne after cutting out dairy. Drinking cow’s milk in large quantities is something humans have only been doing for a few thousand years and there’s quite a bit of evidence we probably shouldn’t. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-...
What evidence? There's a reason the mutation that kept lactase production "on" spread so well. Today many of the healthiest cultures on Earth consume lots of dairy. France with the most butter, Greek with the most cheese, etc.
Re: Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)
#1431. When I was a kid, just getting a tan cleared up my acne. 2. Changing my diet helped clean up my acne (not eating junk food) 3. When I was a teenager, I got hurt really bad, and my father found me and had to take me to the hospital. I saw massive acne breakout on his face in less than 15 minutes. 4. When I got older and was less stressed about life, my acne went away. When I got a family/career/house and life stres…
Everytime I take a plane somewhere I would have huge acnes in the two , three hour duration of the flight. I always suspected it’s the stress of having to be on time and everthing that flying involves.
I've experienced the same, although I don't think I stress out about flights anymore.
My theory is that it's caused by air being dryer in the plane, as my lips are usually chapped on/after flight.
Re: Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)
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A lot of people report a huge improvement in their acne after cutting out dairy. Drinking cow’s milk in large quantities is something humans have only been doing for a few thousand years and there’s quite a bit of evidence we probably shouldn’t. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-...
What evidence? There's a reason the mutation that kept lactase production "on" spread so well. Today many of the healthiest cultures on Earth consume lots of dairy. France with the most butter, Greek with the most cheese, etc.
The healthiest populations in the world consume virtually no dairy. Okinawans, vegans, 7-day adventists etc.
The Mediterrean diet is largely vegetarian:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-02-16/10-commandments...
75% of the world's population loses their ability to digest lactose after infancy:
http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/what-is-lactose-in...
Milk is for babies. Cow's milk is for cow babies.
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The idea of "hey, this strange thing worked for me, and I don't wholly understand all parts of the system but it seems to have some results" is pretty much the core of what "hacking" is, right?
I understand hacking to be the opposite: understanding a system so deeply that you can invoke unintended behavior.
I'm not saying that you don't have a valid idea here, but that doesn't meet with my understanding of the term. I mean when I say I'm a hack piano player, I mean that i can get by but am not classically trained. When I say, this fix for my problem is a hack, I mean that it's not a well engineered solution, but rather that it's a functioning (albeit perhaps ugly) solution.
I can also say that it's a good thing that I didn't apply that when I started working with computers or I would never have gotten to the point where I understood the systems well enough to bend them to my purposes regardless of the intended behavior.
And that doesn't even touch the question of what "intended behavior" might mean for a biological entity which isn't "designed" in a way that has an intended use.
Re: Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea of "hey, this strange thing worked for me, and I don't wholly understand all parts of the system but it seems to have some results" is pretty much the core of what "hacking" is, right?
Your analogy is close but flawed in a major way. The underlying assumption when hacking is that if you don't understand the internals of something that's ok, but you can rely on understanding the interface, and your manipulation of the interface is skilled enough that you can get the results you need. In this case, we don't even remotely understand the interface or manipulating it.
Consider the case of two kinds of users operating on some kind of interface that is unfamiliar, say, MS Word.
One class of user will consult a manual and try to find the right answer, or perhaps will call an expert.
Another class of user will just start pushing buttons to see what happens, because they have a rough familiarity with the system even if the specific interface is not well understood.
It's that second class that I am thinking about when I think about how "hackers" operate.
In that case, I get that it's dangerous to mess around with a system whose internals you don't know about... but at the same time, there is a kind of fantasy that somehow other folks have a privileged knowledge of what our bodies do.
Personally, I quit wheat and dairy (and reduced my alcohol consumption) because it's a specific tree allergy season here. I have a couple possible accounts of why this is working (because I believe that it is) but I don't really understand the interface or even what I am manipulating when I alter my diet like that... I just know that I can breath, whereas historically I have terrible allergies at this time of year. Feel kind of like a hacky solutions... it's not an engineered solution, that's for sure.
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#148I'm always amused/horrified by Hacker News comments on anything health-related. Herein lie a group of incredibly smart individuals sharing anecdotal evidence and folk remedies without a lick of irony.
I'm actually horrified at the opposite. The lack of knowledge around health issues scares me. When users comment they did not know tumeric is anti inflammatory it makes me wonder.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Totally anecdotal, but too much chocolate is what makes me erupt. And I prefer dark chocolate, so it might be the chocolate rather than the dairy. Eating a large bar of dark chocolate should differentiate, purely in the interests of science of course.
Its the dairy
I would add possibly polluted or adulterated dairy. Raw milk (anecdote) may not cause the same issues as processed dairy.
Also, I would add that most processed dairy (besides just plain old milk) is mixed with many other detrimental ingredients. So there may be a cause/effect relationship overlap with other foods.
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What evidence? There's a reason the mutation that kept lactase production "on" spread so well. Today many of the healthiest cultures on Earth consume lots of dairy. France with the most butter, Greek with the most cheese, etc.
The healthiest populations in the world consume virtually no dairy. Okinawans, vegans, 7-day adventists etc. The Mediterrean diet is largely vegetarian: http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-02-16/10-commandments... 75% of the world's population loses their ability to digest lactose after infancy: http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/what-is-lactose-in... Milk is for babies. Cow's milk is for cow babies.
Vegetarian ≠ Vegan.
Lots of dairy in the standard Vegetarian diet. The link you provided to the Mediterranean diet included lots of dairy (cheese, yogurt, etc.). Also, a lifetime of personal experience says that Seventh-day Adventists eat quite a lot of dairy.