In Defense of Eating Brains • Hacker News Board

Re: In Defense of Eating Brains

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Post by anotherhue » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 6:39 PM UTC

zilti wrote: post #15

dchung333 wrote: post #6

I thought this was satire when I clicked on it. The more I read it got progressively worse as I realized how long it took to even mention prion disease. This article doesn't really seem reviewed which seems to be a trend I'm noticing in Atlas Obscura articles. Is anyone else thinking this? Edit: The person who wrote this article has no background at all in Food Safety, nor should they really be talking about this sub…

Because prion disease is close to irrelevant, as long as you don't feed the brains back to the animal it's from.

Your confidence clearly demonstrates your expertise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_dise...

Re: In Defense of Eating Brains

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Post by abecedarius » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 11:31 PM UTC

readthenotes1 wrote: post #18

abecedarius wrote: post #7

Disappointing this tells us scientists "established" the harm of dietary cholesterol in the 50s without mentioning that it was a mistake. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee had to admit this around 10 years ago.

There could have been a whole article on how the Science establishment was bullied into submission by Ancel Keys...

That could be a good separate submission. But here in this one it would take very few words to avoid spreading a known falsehood as a scientific fact -- plus it'd add to what's interesting in this story. Like, animal brains have a lot of cholesterol for the same reason they're nutritious for us! We have a lot of brain!

Re: In Defense of Eating Brains

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Post by zilti » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 12:35 AM UTC

readthenotes1 wrote: post #17

zilti wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because prion disease is close to irrelevant, as long as you don't feed the brains back to the animal it's from.

Like from sheep to cow (how we got mad cow disease) or cow to human (why mad cow disease mattered)?

That mattered because we fed the animals their remains.

Re: In Defense of Eating Brains

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Post by woleium » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 4:35 AM UTC

siliconc0w wrote: post #10

Prions are scary- these bad shapes cause your shapes to be bad. There is no cure or even a way to detect them, except at autopsy. Otherwise I'd totally be into brains. Good source of omega3s.

Brains, cooked contains 210 calories per 140 g serving. This serving contains 15 g of fat, 16 g of protein and 2.1 g of carbohydrate. The latter is 0 g sugar and 0 g of dietary fiber, the rest is complex carbohydrate. Brains, cooked contains 3.3 g of saturated fat and 4304 mg of cholesterol per serving. If you do not have risk factors for heart disease, you should limit your cholesterol intake to no more than 300 milligrams a day. 1000% your rda of cholesterol in a single serving!