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Food for Thought, in 4 courses: #Ruminants ingest a very low fat diet. Too much lipid in their diet is toxic to the rumen microbes, and PUFAs especially so. So biohydrogenation is a self-protective process that greatly benefits humans.
2) The conversion of fiber & other carbohydrate into fat is one of the #ruminants' essential ecological functions. Could it be that we'd be better off to let them (and their micobiome) do that for us?
3) But don't we *have* to have carbohydrate in our diets? Apparently not...
4) Macronutrients that are essential for humans, aren't essential for #ruminants, and vice-versa. Gee, it's almost like we evolved to take advantage of an abundant resource, right @DrEades @ProfTimNoakes?
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Food for Thought, in five courses:
1) What the world’s livestock ACTUALLY eat.
Is this different from what the plant-based advocates say? Why might that be? Ignorance at best, deception at worst.
2) “Livestock contribute to food security by supplying essential macro- and micro-nutrients, providing manure and draught power, and generating income.” Note that these nutrients are often best- or solely-sourced from animal products. What’s the suggested alternative?
3) Worldwide, livestock consume “one third of global cereal production – of which 86% is made of materials that are currently not eaten by humans.”
(Let's do the math - 0.33 x 0.14 = 0.05. Just 5% of is currently human-edible!!)
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Food for Thought (in 5 courses)
1) Photosynthesis is the production of carbohydrate & O2 from CO2 & H2O
2) Cellulose & starch (both polysaccharides) differ in their bonds between the glucose units. No vertebrate make cellulase, the enzyme needed to cleave the bonds in cellulose. Thus we cannot directly utilize the most abundant carbohydrate in the biosphere.
3) Perhaps that's why most of the animals humanity has domesticate have been herbivores, with ruminants being the largest group. Their specialized digestion anatomy & their rumen microbial populations allow them to utilize high-fiber, low quality feedstuffs.
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Food for Thought (in 5 courses) 1) - Humans are heterotrophs - we must "rely on consuming other organisms in the food chain."
2) Different heterotrophs have developed vastly different digestive and metabolic systems, hence they have different dietary requirements (nutrients that must in their diet).
3) Humanity's diet is already plant-based. Is that a good thing? How well do plant sourced foods (PSF) meet human requirements, @GeorgiaEdeMD? ALL food production has multiple impacts. Are they equal? What standard is used to balance them?
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Let’s talk about low-carb diets! The skinny on them is that they work (in part) because restricting carbs, especially refined ones, controls hunger. But does it? There’s a ton of evidence about that. Let’s look at it! Here's the theory.
mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifest…
The idea is that carbs, especially refined ones, drive the release of insulin, which clears the bloodstream of glucose. When blood sugar drops, you get hungry. Therefore, refined carbs make you hungry, and you overeat.
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In this thread, I will go through the history of research that led to the concept of metabolic syndrome, as formulated by Gerald Reaven in 1988. 1/n
It is my hope that by doing so, I and others interested in this topic will have gained a much deeper appreciation of this essential and highly relevant area of biomedical science. 2/n
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I have to watch The Magic Pill today for an article.

@sallyt, send popcorn. Or xanax.

Should I live-tweet this as a teaser for the article?
I'M THREE MINUTES IN THEY JUST IMPLIED THAT CROCODILE ATTACKS WERE BETTER THAN GETTING DIABETES HOLY SHIT. #themagicpill
Seven minutes: I think they just implied that the fact that they're a family of emotional eaters is the reason why one of this woman's granddaughters is autistic and another one has celiac. Oh, and this woman in her 70s (?) is forgetful. All from sugar, obvs.

#themagicpill
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NEW THREAD on #LCHF-raud & #KetoDiet.
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Gary Taubes, author of several books and articles on low carb high fat #LCHF-raud diet (fad), FINALLY concedes that saturated fats are the enemy in this BMJ article: 👉 bmj.com/content/361/bm…
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The next in line is a genuinely anomalous study, the Caerphilly study. It's an observational study of ~2500 men in Wales that were followed for five years starting in 1979. This study showed a remarkable trend. Those who ate the least had the most CHD.
The finding was that total energy intake was the only statistically significant predictor of heart disease, and it had an inverse relationship with CHD. Yes, those who ate the fewest calories had the highest risk. This would overturn most of what we know about nutrition if true.
In addition, this study is of questionable relevance to S-T and Krauss's study since it did not separately assess SFA intake, but only used a marker for "animal fat" ignoring possible plant based sources of SFA.
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