Maggie's Farm

Rightist counter-signalling infuses the culture. The whole no-carb obsession is nutritional bullshit. But it ain't vegan, goes the shrieking, and that's what counts.

Your ignorance is almost as remarkable as the bias it takes to maintain it.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg/search?query=vegetables

I know: But muh Oreos.

People are really superstitious about people they say are really superstitious about food. The most ignorant? Naturally the first group.

The original post is wrong in many ways. More or less in order, here's the usual boilerplate and then the reality.

-"Nobody can say what a "healthy" nutrition plan is", Rubbish. There are at least 700 individual scientific studies that draw a really good bead on what kills and what heals.

-"because humans and all higher primates are omnivorous." At best that's an observation that has nothing to do with health. At worst, research shows that the paleo myth is built on a disproved view of ancient man. What did modern man develop on or from? The trigger was the root vegetable - with the COMPLEX SUGAR - and obviously not fifteen helpings from the meat and dairy case a week.

-"That means humans can thrive on almost anything as long as it contains sufficient calories to support life." It obviously means nothing of the sort. Humans thrive on healthy diets. They subsist on poor diets with some rather important variations to their health. Disease statistics exactly show this to be true.

-"I've seen enough kids grow big and strong enough to play varsity football on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Wonder Bread to be convinced of that." An obvious fallacy: I've seen many kids run between moving busses out on state road 123 therefore kids belong in traffic as much as out of it.

-Yes, that "low fat" high carb advice was totally wrong, terrible advice for almost everybody. Nonsense. The data overwhelmingly supports the evident fact that the mixed, processed Western diet is totally wrong, not carbs. Get off it, recover, and you can just about eat all the unprocessed and especially plant carbs you can pack in your stomach. Star athletes do it, regular people do it, formerly fat people do it, and the key to it is getting the fat out of the processed carbs and then having recovered, eat what best processes directly to the complex sugars you run on, which happen to be plants.

-"As was the "low salt" advice (for most people)." Also untrue because obviously it's correlated with the diet in general. See how well you do exclusively on bacon nitrites.

-"Small meals are best for health, fitness, energy, and mental clarity." Good meals are associated with health, fitness, energy, and mental clarity, whatever that is when you're not really thinking this through. Small meals in a sequence of junk, junk, and junk will pretty much kill you.

-"If overweight and if you do not want to be, cut the carbs and cut the volume." Considering the above, that's just hella advice, isn't it? You could just as well say "cut the overweight".

-"If you exercise hard daily, especially with heavy weights, keep daily protein up to around 80-90 gms/day for adequate muscle repair, and eat some sugar - Coke, candy, fruit - before the workout." Wow. First, what's the clinical term for protein deficiency? Second, which has more protein, that burger or these black beans? Third, processed sugar versus the entire complex content of fruit? Precious little nutritional resemblance, I'm afraid. I understand the obsessional bias, but for heaven's sake, eat some freaking fruit if you fancy yourself a bronzed god and somehow need to mainline pure corn syrup in order to get through your expensive club workout.

-"If you hate vegetables, take a multivit." Wrong (and why do you hate vegetables?) As with the fruit thing, vegetables have the complex nutritional spectrum that synthesized multi-vitamins simply do not. It's why they work (and it's maybe accidentally related to our exercise experts here blundering into proclaiming shelf vitamins a fraud in other of their many invaluable health missives.)

-"If you think fruit is "healthy", show me the data. (There is none. Fruit is dessert or a quick sugar fix.)" People won't accept the data if it pays them to come over and clean their house. Be serious.

-"If you worry about overly-high bad triglycerides, discuss with your doctor. Bear in mind that elevated cholesterol does not appear to correlate with heart disease." It correlates with arterial inflammation all day long. Wonder what that's related to? Discuss with your doctor (who might just be fine with the stock advice to basically do whatever you want before he opens up your chest later).

Wow, that's rich. And deeply, stunningly ironic. In your world does reactionary, emotional opinion like that always displace rational observation stemming directly from fact?