Floey

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[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, the foods that are high in omega 3s and 6s like fish, nuts, and seeds tend to be low in saturated fat and high in unsaturated fat compositionally. So it is not necessary to consume a lot of saturated fat in our diets, we should avoid coconut oil, palm oil, butter, and lard wherever possible.

Eating refined sugar is bad for you, we should avoid things like sugary beverages for example. But this does not mean that whole fruit is bad for us, and definitely doesn't mean that whole veg and grain is bad for us. The fiber in fruit blunts the effects of the fructose, interestingly fiber also blunts the effects of saturated fat from whole coconuts.

People love telling this mythology about how the low fat guidelines made us sick, but it's pretty much bunk. People didn't follow the guidelines for the most part as macro ratios have hardly varied over time in the US. Corporations also leveraged the idea to sell junk foods as healthier alternatives by lowering the fat content, but keeping or even raising the amount of refined carbohydrates.

Nobody in this conversation is saying sugar is good for you. I was just pushing back against the OP of this chain who said that meat is of no concern to diabetics, and said sugar and other carbohydrates are the main culprit. Other carbohydrates would even include fiber which would be quite beneficial to diabetics. But also from the studies I've seen I'd be more worried about someone who puts a spoonful of coconut oil or butter in their coffee than someone who puts a spoonful or two of sugar, and not just because of diabetes but cardiovascular disease as well.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's funny to me that people are upvoting your misinformation because they can't be bothered to look something up themselves when it only takes a second, bullshit dietary science spreads so easily on the Internet.

Those are not saturated fats, and omega 9 and not all omega 3s and 6s are essential fats. Specifically alpha linolenic and linoleic acid are essential.

Edit:
In case it comes up later I do not want it to look like I'm shifting arguments so I'll add this. Even if it were essential, something being essential does not mean it is harmless at any quantity, and something being unessential does not mean it is dangerous. I also did not say raw dogging glucose was good for you, it definitely isn't. I said saturated fat was worse than refined sugar, so the broad category of "carbohydrates" is definitely not some boogeyman.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Saturated fat is a stronger culprit for metabolic syndrome than even refined sugar, but yeah, "carbohydrates" are to blame. 🙄 You aren't getting diabetes because you ate too many sweet potatoes.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It triggers me that this is a pie chart. First of all it implies there are advantages even if they aren't keyed in. But most importantly pie charts only measure the weight of something within within its own context as a fraction of the whole.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

LLMs don't "know" anything. The true things they say are just as much bullshit as the falsehoods.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

What's weird is assuming that if someone doesn't cause as much harm as you in some regard they must be doing worse in some other regard. Like are serial killers all saints in other aspects of their life and that is their big cruelty outlet?

Some of these arguments are just baffling, especially the ones about food production itself. Can you explain to me how a vegan encourages more slave labor and steals from indigenous folk? A diet full of animal products uses more land and labour.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I think the Berlin Interpretation is quite outdated and was not even good at the time, but I will defend it on this one point. It does not provide a threshold for what is and is not a roguelike, the Berlin Interpretation just lists criteria that are important to consider when determining how roguelike something is. The heap paradox is an exercise for the reader.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

A roguelite is ostensibly something that has enough features of a roguelike to be noted, but not enough to be considered one. And I'd argue there is way more to what makes a roguelike than permadeath with no meta progression.

Also Slay the Spire has less meta progression than Issac. Hades is in a whole nother ball park.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Literally Bill Gates.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Floey@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Margarine these days is mostly a mix of either palm or coconut oil with something like soybean or canola oil. I wouldn't be surprised if butter had more naturally occurring trans fats.

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