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Indian food is saving so many lives (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Just learn basic nutritional requirements and plan your meals to meet them. It's not hard, and there are plenty of plant-based options to do so.

People who cut out carbs completely are stupid. They're the main energy source. Sure, you can make energy from fats and proteins, but you can't replace carbs entirely without consequences like ketoacidosis. Just balance your carb intake with your caloric intake requirements. If you're sedentary, reducing carbs is fine. If you exercise a lot, eat some fucking carbs. You're gonna burn them off anyway.

And any sort of diet that wants to only eat one food group is idiotic. The key to good nutrition is about balance. Fruit is good for you, but if it's the only thing you eat then you're missing critical macronutrients. And meat-only diets are just plain stupid.

But we live in the age of internet disinfo, enshittified education, and social media being people's main source of information. So it's really not surprising that people make dumb choices.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    you can't replace carbs entirely without consequences like ketoacidosis.

    This is incorrect. The body is able to make all the carbohydrate it needs via gluconeogenesis. It needs no exogenous carbohydrates at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Our body does this on survival mode, you won't convince anyone here to join your lunatic diet my friendly carnivore. What are you even doing here?

    You guys are literally dying from your diet and you come here to share "science for health", I just learnt that Dr. Adam Nally died at 55 from a stroke. Please eat some veggies.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    And where do you suppose it gets the calories to do that? Solely from fats and proteins? Because that's how you get some serious medical complications.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Yes, indeed primarily from fat. The body is able to use the glycerol backbone from triglycerides to make glucose, alongside several other things like proteins and lactate. Since calories are a measure of heat energy, they are a reductive measure when it comes to nutrition. Much better to think in terms of nutrients.

    Stated another way, there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. This has been in scientific literature for a very long time.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Okay, this right here shows you don't know what you're talking about, in a Dunning-Kruger sort of way:

    Since calories are a measure of heat energy, they are a reductive measure when it comes to nutrition. Much better to think in terms of nutrients.

    Yes, calories measure heat energy. No, they're not a nutrient. However, that doesn't make them a "reductive measure." Nobody (at least, no one who understands nutrition) is talking exclusively about calories. It's part of the overall picture.

    There are three main macronutrients: carbs, fats, and proteins. Each one provides calories. When your body uses energy (which it always does, even at rest, but uses more during activity), it needs to replace them. A caloric intake requirement measures how many calories you need to replace the energy you burn during the day. Nothing more. Any attempt to apply it to something else, is misinformed at best. ("I can't eat that, it has calories." Bullshit.).

    Also:

    Stated another way, there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate.

    There's no such thing as an essential protein, either. There are essential amino acids, which build the proteins. There's no such thing as an essential fat, either. There are essential fatty-acids.

    "Essential" in nutritional terms refers to "building blocks," not "necessities." If you're applying the latter definition, then that would make fiber an "essential carbohydrate."

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    The body is able to use the glycerol backbone from triglycerides to make glucose, alongside several other things like proteins and lactate

    Yes, it is possible to make glucose from other sources. I never denied that. I said it's impossible to do it exclusively without serious consequences.

    If all of your caloric intake (yes, I said caloric, because that's what we're talking about. bite me.) is coming exclusively from fats and proteins, you're going to have medical issues. That doesn't mean it's impossible to get energy from fats and proteins, so stop arguing that point because no one is arguing against it. In fact, it implies that it is possible. How would you get medical complications from something that isn't possible?

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