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Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by jalapenos »

schmuckonwheels wrote: post #30

Speaking from personal experience, this is consistent with multiple doctors over the years recommending high-protein, low carb diets. (Clarification: low does not mean no carb.) I don't understand people freaking out over this - outside of a purely political reflex - hell hath no fury like taking away nerds' Mountain Dew and Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Nor do I understand the negative reactions to new restrictions on SNAP -…

I think it's just what democracy does, make people to turn off their brains and instead decide if something is good/bad, right/wrong based on whether they like the person saying it.

All you have to do is look at this food pyramid and the old food pyramid and ask "if I had to feed one of these a week to my kid which would I pick".

It's clearly superior and it's just sad that people are so just defiant to good, for who knows what reasons.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by theturtlemoves »

Brystephor wrote: post #689
theturtlemoves wrote: post #664

Carnivore diet from 2022-2024 and now carnivore by day, keto at the dinner table I can't begin to list the health problems that completely disappeared or went into remission for me. Lapse and I'm a ball of misery for three days. Happy to have gone to carni/keto, wish I'd done that twenty years ago. The best time to enjoy my health would have been 20 years ago, the next best time is now. Glad to see this.

And no change in exercise or other levels of physical activity, home life, work life, or other diets attempted, right? Its awesome that youre feeling better. Its possible, but hard to believe, that its due to nothing but diet changes and if it is, then its hard to imagine that such an extremely specific diet is needed to get the same results.

Yes, sure, I also took up a physical job and started taking cold showers. Have quit the physical job a year ago, still occasionally cold shower.

Feel free to judge for yourself: cysts, acne, eczema, Raynaud's syndrome, dizziness, poor wound healing, easy bruising, tinnitus, eyesight problems, restless arms and legs (damn now that I list this I'm so fucking lucky, waking up with restless arms and legs fucking sucks), twisting my ankle whenever the pavement isn't perfectly flat, hand eye coordination problems and more subjective things like less tension and better sleep

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by resumenext »

davidmurdoch wrote: post #945
resumenext wrote: post #944

The big issue I have with this is no kale or oatmeal in the pyramid image. And rice seems to get a bad rank too. How many fat Asians do you see? People diss oatmeal (lames, tbh) cause of “leaky gut” but is that even a real thing? There’s also glyphosates but quaker is nongmo according to the label. Anyway, I see “leaky gut” and I think quack. The pyramid should have more kale, truly.

Are you looking at the wrong website?

Probably. Was kale in there somewhere?

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by arethuza »

thorin wrote: post #784
throwup238 wrote: post #647

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> grass fed, free range... Because agribusiness doesn't make money with those. Agribusiness absolutely makes money off of those. In fact they had a hilariously easy time adapting to the consumer trend because all they had to do to label a cow “free range” or “grass fed” was change the finishing stage to a lower density configuration instead of those abominable feed lots you see along highways. The first two stages, r…

Cows and sheep in the UK (and I guess much of Europe) wander round outside all year round and I guess are eating almost entirely grass. You can't go for a walk in the countryside without coming across them constantly. Most of the beef you buy in the shops (not talking about processed foods) is produced in the UK.

Here in Scotland its pretty common for cows to be kept off of the fields during winter - a combination of protecting them from the weather and, I suspect more importantly, protecting pasture land. Having cows in a field here at the moment (and I live in the middle of a farm) would probably just result in an ocean of mud.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by shlant »

spydr wrote: post #970
epolanski wrote: post #572

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't understand people freaking out over this Personally I'm not a fan of any diet that recommends high meat consumption and I say that as someone who eats everything. Cattle outweighs the total livestock on this planet by a 10 to 1 factor. While governments pretend to do stuff for the environment, they seem to always ignore the extreme cost on the environment and pollution caused by cattle. Even focusing on CO2…

“If the entirety of the US were to go vegan for a year, the reduction in GHG emissons would be 2.6%” https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g?si=yFnHO9cX3apu1yBh I think cows get to much blame

> I think cows get to much blame

I think that incredibly biased channel and extensively criticized video gets too much credit

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by inpdx »

hxtk wrote: post #685
125123wqw1212 wrote: post #677

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right off the bat, "prioritizing protein" is already smelling.

There's some real science there for a couple of reasons. Protein is a macronutrient you can be malnourished if you don't get enough of even if you eat enough calories and the right micronutrients, and if most of your calories are from protein then you're actually probably not getting as many "burnable" calories as you think you are because (1) the amount of protein you need to meet your daily protein needs never ente…

Americans simply do not have the problem of not getting enough protein. It's a made-up idea.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by bschmidt241 »

kristopolous wrote: post #581

Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK... Here's industry reports https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/doctors-group-applauds-comm... https://www.wattagnet.com/business-markets/policy-legislatio... And straight up lobbying groups https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-dietary-guideline... https://www.meatinstitute.org/press/recommend-prioritizing-p... Lobbying groups, putting out press rel…

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Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by jf22 »

drstewart wrote: post #925
kristopolous wrote: post #581

Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK... Here's industry reports https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/doctors-group-applauds-comm... https://www.wattagnet.com/business-markets/policy-legislatio... And straight up lobbying groups https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-dietary-guideline... https://www.meatinstitute.org/press/recommend-prioritizing-p... Lobbying groups, putting out press rel…

Did you mistakenly mean to reference Canada's highly corrupt as hell food guide? https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/ Ctrl+F'd and didn't see any of those words mentioned a single time either. What a corrupt country Canada is.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Canada can be just as corrupt.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by agos »

eudamoniac wrote: post #923
fabbbbb wrote: post #292

Unfortunately there seems to be no good aligned definition of what (highly) processed food is. 1,2 Whole grain bread or infant formula can be “highly processed” despite very healthy. In the end someone else cooks for you and packages it. They can cook healthy or not or in between, add a lot of salt or little, .. as always it’s more complex. 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-022-01099-1 2 https://www.cambridge…

My personal definition: If it was impossible for ancient Romans to make this food, it's highly processed. I think this is a pretty good heuristic.

raw tomatoes and boiled potatoes are highly processed
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