Food, diet, facts and myths

[macca]

Vegan fake meats are linked to increase in heart deaths

While many of us may assume the vegan option is healthier, opting for ultra-processed products - such as plant-based sausages - is linked with a higher risk for these conditions.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Not surprising, our bodies have eaten "real food" since forever, if you start creating super processed food from various chemicals our bodies are not compatible with it

Imagine a child's body trying to grow as per their genetic make up and they don't eat food that their forebears ate, cannot be a healthy situation, short or long term.

An easy example is fake sugars which have been around for years, people don't lose weight because the body cannot digest this stuff.

It stores it in the body tissues and as it accumulates it knocks the insulin balance out of whack and people then put on weight.

It does the exact opposite of what it is supposed to do

 

[finicky]

Fake meats are a marketing gimmick designed to exploit a growing trend of people wanting to abstain from animal food sources.

Vegetarian/vegan cuisine is more than a thousand years old and there is a very developed Indian and Chinese vego cuisine with roots in hinduism and buddhism. The solution has already been provided.
Many western people react to the idea of no animal products as being impossible, hence the corporate opportunists come in with this fake meat/cheese bs.

The hardest thing to give up is cheese in my experience. Meat and eggs were easy. Cheese I've heard lights up addictive parts of the brain?

Vegetarian nutrition: past, present, future - PubMed

Early human food cultures were plant-based. Major religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism have recommended a vegetarian way of life since their conception. The recorded history of vegetarian nutrition started in the sixth century bc by followers of the Orphic mysteries. The Greek philosopher...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[finicky]

"Cheese contains opiate chemicals that attach to the very same brain receptors that fentanyl or any other narcotic attaches to,” he said, adding that due to the high concentration of casein in cheese, “some people refer to cheese as ‘dairy crack.’”

The Gouda, bad and ugly: NYC law student addicted to cheese went to nearly $6K-per-week rehab

Adela Cojab said cravings began during her junior year at NYU, in spring 2018, when she binged almost daily on the “cheapest” bricks cheese she could find.

nypost.com

 

[StockyGuy]

Don't know how common it is, but I never again experienced coughing up "tonsil stones" after quitting dairy. But I did used to guzzle milk like a champion.

 

[finicky]

I also noticed that. No heavy phlegm at all - nasal or brochial. Skin much clearer. I miss Parmesan, Romano and brie/camembert but health is not negotiable.

 

[finicky]

VitB12, DHA/EPA, VitD
(B6, Folate and VitC)
Anti Oxidants

Wealth of info here persuasively presented.
How to lower your chance of dementia.
How to lower homocysteine which is implicated in many diseases.

Research like this has occasioned me to deviate from an exclusively plant based low processed diet and introduce some fatty fish a couple of times a week.
I must fess up to breaking out a few times over the last year and scoffing some cheese.

 

[Knobby22]

VitB12, DHA/EPA, VitD
(B6, Folate and VitC)
Anti Oxidants

Wealth of info here persuasively presented.
How to lower your chance of dementia.
How to lower homocysteine which is implicated in many diseases.

Research like this has occasioned me to deviate from an exclusively plant based low processed diet and introduce some fatty fish a couple of times a week.
I must fess up to breaking out a few times over the last year and scoffing some cheese.

A friend of mine (Indian) grew up a vegetarian but she is now a Pescararian for health reasons. Fish gives benefits and has rare elements needed in tiny doses.

My youngest brother who is married to a doctor will eat only fish and lamb occasionally grass fed beef and kangaroo. Lamb is the healthiest meat. Chicken is grain fed.

Cheese has had a bad time with some fashion diet sellers e.g. Liver cleansing diet.

A major study showed that moderate consumption of cheese results in total lower mortality especially cancer, metabolic disease and bone fracture. We all should be eating some. Also yoghurt.

Cheese consumption and multiple health outcomes: an umbrella review and updated meta-analysis of prospective studies

This umbrella review aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of current evidence from prospective studies on the diverse health effects of cheese consumption. We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library to identify meta-analyses/pooled ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[wayneL]

So many different opinions on diet or very convincingly presented by their proponents.

As far as I see the most common element is eliminating or drastically reducing non structural carbohydrates (sugars and starches). Oh, and the demon drink

Toughest thing is when you're on the road or socialising (being vegan/vego is a PIA for everyone).

I have fitted out my work vehicle with some cooking facilities and do my own lunches now and for socialising being pesco is a good solution.

As a point of interest and FWIW, here is one approach taken by our favourite small cap advisor:

 

[finicky]

This is the guy who first turned me off cheese in particular. Worth chasing up more detailed vids if you find it of interest.
He first twigged to it through population studies and with no bias or specific interest in casein (dairy protein). Later he found experimentally with lab rats that he could turn off/on and down/up regulate cancer growth by feeding with casein.

 

[macca]

Vapes ! the new addictive habit to thin out the over population problem.

There is always something for those who like to live dangerously to try on for size

It seems that the carrier medium for the nicotine in these things is actually turning lungs into crap

<<Vaping and Popcorn Lung​

“Popcorn lung” is another name for bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), a rare condition that results from damage of the lungs’ small airways. BO was originally discovered when popcorn factory workers started getting sick. The culprit was diacetyl, a food additive used to simulate butter flavor in microwave popcorn.


Diacetyl is frequently added to flavored e-liquid to enhance the taste. Inhaling diacetyl causes inflammation and may lead to permanent scarring in the smallest branches of the airways — popcorn lung — which makes breathing difficult. Popcorn lung has no lasting treatment. There are, however, treatments that manage BO symptoms, such as:>>

or they use Vitamin E, is this good ? nope, you can swallow it but it gums up your lungs if you breathe it

<<The substance at the center of investigation is vitamin E. It’s often used as a thickening and delivery agent in e-liquid. And, while it’s safe when taken orally as a supplement or used on the skin, it’s likely an irritant when inhaled. It’s been found in the lungs of people with severe, vaping-related damage.>>

There was an article in the NSW papers about people in their 20s and 30s with lungs that are complete ****. The general comment from them was that they thought it was safer than ciggies

What Does Vaping Do to Your Lungs?

Many people wonder if vaping is bad for your lungs. Find out from an expert how it impacts lungs and which illnesses are associated with vaping.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org

 

[finicky]

This could be you. Wake up before it's too late. This poor doggie is enslaved by the equivalent of an opiate.

"Cheese is addictive, Barnard said, because the dairy proteins inside can act as mild opiates. Fragments of cheese protein, called casomorphins, attach to the same brain receptors as heroin and other narcotics. As a result, each bite of cheese produces a tiny hit of dopamine. He calls it "dairy crack."