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Or, just have 2 billion people on the planet, instead of 8.
Such obvious truths are unfortunately incompatible with individual instincts to procreate.
Quality > quantity.
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this is wat I eat, high calory, cheap, and very nutritious: breakfast: 6 raw eggs lemon juice (1 lemon, squeezed) 378 calories in total, of which 227 are fat and 144 protein. just enough sugar to help you digest it without bloat. awesome anabolic effects from the eggs. lunch: 6 raw eggs 200ml whole unhomogenised milk (raw if possible) similar effect but even more anabolic dinner: 200-300g of fresh steak (beef) cooked…
Where do you get your eggs? Or is the salmonella part of the weight control?
I wish there was a salmonella vaccine for humans and be done with it, because raw-ish eggs can be quite delicious.
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I've imposed some dietary restrictions on my kids, but they're mostly glycemic in nature. - No sugary drinks; absolutely no soda pop, ever, and very little fruit juice, which is really no better than pop. - No sugary breakfasts. Breakfast cereal is fucking poison, especially the sweetened varieties. - No kids-menu food. When we eat out, they've always ordered off the adult menu. No pizza, chicken nuggets, mac-n-chees…
sometimes a pizza or a coke is not a bad thing you know. if you put all the bad stuff away, there might just come the time when your kids have enough of your rules and rebel and then begin to compensate and overuse those stuff. been there, done that
The sugary soda pop rule is fucking law-- completely set in stone. Believe it or not, neither of my kids has ever consumed a significant amount of sugary soda pop in their entire lives. However, they're allowed to drink diet soda, and my younger kid does so fairly regularly. My older kid doesn't really like sweet drinks.
The sugary breakfast rule is never broken at home, but I've always allowed sugary breakfasts as a treat when on vacation or when the grandparents take us to breakfast, which happens once or twice a month. The only requirement on these mornings is that they eat their protein first-- usually eggs. This ordering is an important life skill.
The kid's menu is strictly forbidden, whether or not the grandparents are buying. This was a bit of a fight with my younger kid, but we figured out how to negotiate using desert. This made desert a treat that could be earned, which seems to have bred some discipline in her.
At home, I keep the kitchen stocked with sugar substitutes. For years we used Truvia-type erythritol/stevia sweetener, but we've recently started using erythritol and monk fruit (Lakanto brand), which is nearly indistinguishable from sugar in taste. I also keep a jar of the stuff mixed with cinnamon, which we cryptically call cinnamon-sugar.
We make a lot of sweet stuff at home using the sugar subs, and I encourage the kids to cook. Mostly what they make is toast with butter and cinnamon-sugar, but sometimes we get into some crepes, pies, brownies, etc.
We still eat quite a bit of starchy and fruity stuff. Lots of pasta in particular. But I really treat sugar as poison, especially "naked" sugars like sodas. There's research coming out continually about the the deadly effects of the high glycemic load and high glycemic "velocity" of the Standard American Diet.
I know there's debate about the health of sugar substitutes, but it's a tool that I've chosen to use to keep our diet less sugary to the extent possible, while hopefully minimizing the possibility of the rebellion you speak of.
We'll see if it works.
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Fuck pizza. If I had my way we'd never eat pizza, but my wife allows it occasionally. I complain about it, and make a big show of refusing to eat it, and the wife and kids all side-eye me while they talk about how good it is. Fucking traitors.
But, to your point, maybe my wife is smarter than me.
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This doesn’t make any scientific sense. Study after study has shown that protein and complex carbs are what reduces feelings of hunger, not vegetables. This makes sense when you consider most green vegetables like broccoli are 90% water. A meat like chicken, after cooking is only about 60% water. So if you eat 400g of broccoli vs 400g of chicken, the one that will make you feel more full is obviously the protein. Wha…
I did clearly state that it was an anecdote, with a sample size of one, myself. Also I think you're being extremely reductionist here. I'm not claiming that I never felt the sensation of fullness in my stomach. Of course I did. Maybe I should rephrase, that I constantly felt like I was craving food even though my stomach was full. Moreover, to suggest that our brains somehow only understand macronutrients when it com…
I can eat one pound of icecream in one go before I feel that I'm done, or 1/3 of that, tell myself I can eat the rest in 15 minutes IF I still feel the need to at that future time, and I usually don't -- sort of like the reverse of telling myself I'll only work 5 minutes on that boring task I don't want to, but usually I work through it all.
My unscientific point being, there's no way the brain can tell I've eaten 1/3 meat and 2/3 salad vs 3/3 meat in the span of 15 minutes; sure, it will digest the salad much faster, but by that time I'm already doing other things that don't involve me stuffing my face with food; I've found that with food, if you can resist the urge to eat more for 15 minutes, and don't have snacks just laying around you, you actually solved 90% of your overeating problem. SO in my experience, eating broccoli/salad, or just drinking water, absolutely do work to make you full/less hungry, for a short while at least, but that short duration should not be underestimated, because a lot of times is all that is required for one to stick to a caloric limit.
"Vitamin D is currently the only Essential Vitamin or Mineral which appears to have deficiency rates at a similar level to Magnesium"
https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/research/#nutrient...
Dai (2018): Magnesium status and supplementation influence vitamin D status and metabolism: results from a randomized trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30541089/ "Our findings suggest that optimal magnesium status may be important for optimizing 25(OH)D status. "
So it might well be that general deficiency in Vitamin D is caused by the deficiency in magnesium status. This would also be an explanation why we see Vitamin D deficiency in sunny Africa: https://theconversation.com/think-vitamin-d-deficiency-is-no...
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sometimes a pizza or a coke is not a bad thing you know. if you put all the bad stuff away, there might just come the time when your kids have enough of your rules and rebel and then begin to compensate and overuse those stuff. been there, done that
Yeah, this is an excellent point. You're absolutely right, oppressive rules can definitely backfire. We thought this through early on, and we seem to have successfully threaded the needle. My kids are now teen and tween-aged, with no signs of rebellion (so far!) The sugary soda pop rule is fucking law-- completely set in stone. Believe it or not, neither of my kids has ever consumed a significant amount of sugary sod…
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sometimes a pizza or a coke is not a bad thing you know. if you put all the bad stuff away, there might just come the time when your kids have enough of your rules and rebel and then begin to compensate and overuse those stuff. been there, done that
Yeah, this is an excellent point. You're absolutely right, oppressive rules can definitely backfire. We thought this through early on, and we seem to have successfully threaded the needle. My kids are now teen and tween-aged, with no signs of rebellion (so far!) The sugary soda pop rule is fucking law-- completely set in stone. Believe it or not, neither of my kids has ever consumed a significant amount of sugary sod…
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Anecdotally (though studies like [1] seem to confirm this), I've found that tomatoes are quite sensitive to transportation and storage. To me, garden tomatoes taste fantastic; the ones at the local farmers' market taste pretty good too; supermarket tomatoes are only good for making tomato sauce. I wonder whether the tomatoes you ate as a kid had been transported over long distances. Also anecdotally, I haven't found…
The varieties you see in a supermarket are optimized for industrial farming and yes, transportation is one of the things they optimize for. The tomato specifically, though, lost most of it's flavor purely for aesthetic reasons [1]. Consumers have an image of the perfectly round red tomato so all the farmers optimized for it, losing at least one critical gene that contributed significantly to flavor and sugar producti…
(So are they afraid that if they start selling truly delicious tomatoes in summer, they will no longer be able to sell mediocre tomatoes in winter?)
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Home grown tomatoes are typically much better tasting/more flavorful than the store bought ones, so I think there is probably something to this.
Supermarket breeds of vegetables are optimized for good looks and long shelf life. Farmer market vegetables are optimized for flavor, because this is what differentiates them from the supermarket vegetables. This makes the contrast all the more stunning.
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Grass fed is not necessary. Please check out "Sacred Cow" ( https://www.sacredcow.info/book ) for the latest research. I (and many others) agree with your recommendation on sodium.
Can you give a quick summary of why grass fed is not necessary. I can imagine a spectrum from grass fed pasture all the way to specialized diets with hay and grain, but this feels like an in-between to all corn fed beef.
"We looked for _any_ way to spin the nutrition argument in favor of grass-fed meat, but the actual data are fairly easy to verify. If we whitewashed this for a more palatable narrative, the obvious flaw in that position might cast doubt on everything else we are suggesting.
We realize that this is a remarkably unpopular position. But, [...], an ethical clinician would never tell a patient that they should eat only organic vegetables or no vegetables at all. We have the same position on meat. For those who simply don’t have access to grass-fed beef, we still feel red meat in general is an important, nutrient-dense food for humans."