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@downshift.eth
nutrition and its long-term effects on health are among the hardest possible topics to study because of the number of variables and lengthy durations involved therefore, the body of scientific literature on nutrition is about as bad as it gets, especially once you start looking into where the funding comes from for a lot of them (you can probably guess) now add in the influence of lobbying dollars on the United States government and it's "recommendations", and the picture gets extremely bleak: the food pyramid is a house of cards designed to enrich industries and protect subsidies, not keep us healthy the truth is simple: animal foods are extremely nutritious and healthy; grains make us fat and sick.
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kompreni 🚂
@kompreni
Was with you til the last sentence. I am under the impression that saturated fats, which are prevalent in animal products, contribute to high cholesterol / heart disease.
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@downshift.eth
that's what we are told, and yet look at our population
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kompreni 🚂
@kompreni
I agree our population has serious health issues, but I think attributing them to a single cause is oversimplifying. The causes of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, etc need not all be the same thing. And its unlikely they are imo
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@downshift.eth
i never attributed all health issues to one thing; i just said grains make us fat and unhealthy. i'm also very worried about microplastics and tap water (fluoride is really bad for the gut microbiome, for example) there are many many reasons we get sick. cancer can literally be caused by intergalactic particles hitting your DNA
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