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RayAmerica says

If the FDA 'approves' something, you can bet your bottom dollar that their approval is based upon 'studies' that were paid for by the very industries that they are supposed to be regulating.

I also suspect that the news cycles about "this food is good" and "this food is bad" is just the various industries fighting it out via their PR agencies and their agents within the FDA.

Whatever the corporate news tells you should be assumed to have some large financial interest behind it.

When red wine was good for you, for example, it may have just been paid PR for the wine industry, which has quite a bit of money.

@Patrick palm kernel oil contains tricaprin, which according to latest studies not only protects, but reverses coronary artery / heart disease! It's not that easy to vilify all vegetable/fruit/seed oils. The science is always changing! In general palm, palm kernel, mct and coconut oils are considered heart healthy now.

I don't know that I trust any studies anymore though. If so many were rigged by pharma, a lot are probably rigged by some other industries too.

RayAmerica says

All 'oil' should be used in very limited quantities (including butter, which is very high in fat). It has been proven through non-FDA, corporate corrupted sponsored studies that oil contributes to the formation of plaque in arteries, leading to heart disease, strokes, etc.

My brother knew a woman that totally avoided oil. She died of a heart attack in her early 50's. She was a marathon runner.

Your body tells you what to avoid. Listen to it.

mell says

Patrick palm kernel oil contains tricaprin, which according to latest studies not only protects, but reverses coronary artery / heart disease! It's not that easy to vilify all vegetable/fruit/seed oils. The science is always changing! In general palm, palm kernel, mct and coconut oils are considered heart healthy now.

Almost every positive 'study' that is produced is financed by corporations. It works in a similar way to the prosecution and the defense calling "experts" in order to testify in a trial. Both experts are hired by the different sides in order to provide the testimony that fits with their side. That's precisely why we keep seeing conflicting reports, all based upon 'independent studies.'

Trust NOTHING by the FDA, which is loaded with political appointments from the corporations.

Patrick says

I'm undecided about these:

- soybean oil
- sunflower seed oil
- avocado oil
- coconut oil
- peanut oil

Soy sauce as fine as long as it comes from a good source. Like most fermented foods. Sunflower is still a seed oil, avoid. Avocado is one of the best due to the higher cooking temp(doesn't hydrogenate so easily). Coconut has lots of good fat, and taste's great for cooking popcorn, or pancakes. I do use peanut for Asian dishes, only organic.

Olive oil should be extra virgin, and local, or not from Italy unless you know the distributor.

EVOO is not a do-it-all oil. If imported it is quite possibly adulterated so I only buy California grown. Olive oil also does not stand up to high heat so is not good for searing etc. I am using tallow and lard and some bacon fat for this purpose which I now think are healthy fats. I am convinced that whatever the Govt. is recommending is likely very dangerous and a safe bet is to do the opposite.
This guy breaks it down pretty good:
"Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM

mell says

To date I haven't seen any study that suggests oils or fats per se are bad for the arteries.

It depends on what the oils hydrogenation temperature is. As long as you stay under that, the oil will not get sludgy at room temp. That's why Avocado is one of the best.

NuttBoxer says

mell says

To date I haven't seen any study that suggests oils or fats per se are bad for the arteries.

It depends on what the oils hydrogenation temperature is. As long as you stay under that, the oil will not get sludgy at room temp. That's why Avocado is one of the best.

Agreed that's why you want to avoid partially hydrogenated oils.

RayAmerica says

mell says

Patrick palm kernel oil contains tricaprin, which according to latest studies not only protects, but reverses coronary artery / heart disease! It's not that easy to vilify all vegetable/fruit/seed oils. The science is always changing! In general palm, palm kernel, mct and coconut oils are considered heart healthy now.

Almost every positive 'study' that is produced is financed by corporations. It works in a similar way to the prosecution and the defense calling "experts" in order to testify in a trial. Both experts are hired by the different sides in order to provide the testimony that fits with their side. That's precisely why we keep seeing conflicting reports, all based upon 'independent studies.'

Trust NOTHING by the FDA, which is loaded with political appointments from the corporations.

Sure but this research is not FDA related or corporation sponsored, also medium chain fatty acids have been deemed healthy for quite a long time now.

Patrick says

I don't know that I trust any studies anymore though. If so many were rigged by pharma, a lot are probably rigged by some other industries too.

Medium chain fatty acids, coconut/mct oil has been deemed healthy for quite a long time already. I doubt these studies are tainted. Just pointing out is that it depends on the plant and the degree you heat it to.

mell says

I doubt these studies are tainted.

Maybe not tainted, but I do believe most studies have information bias toward the outcome they're hoping for. What's the point of studying something if you didn't already have an opinion on it? It's likely something you believed to be true and most humans hate being wrong about a theory or idea. Especially when it comes to human health.

Not that there's many left, but I believe I've walked through a diet section at a book store like Barnes and Noble. No one really knows the best diet. We know we need certain things, not in excess but with 7B people on the planet, a lot of them have their finger on the scale of diets and health.

I eat what tastes good, doesn't make me fat (generally) and in lesser quantities as I get older. You go to an Italian place here in IL the portions are obscene. I eat a quarter to half of a dish of any pasta style foods. Bring the leftovers home and reheat or just toss them. People feel bad spending $18-40 on an entree at places and feel required to consume it all. I'll eat the best 4oz steak for $40 versus a 12oz average steak for $40 if that makes sense. Bigger is not better and I just don't feel good consuming tons of food at once. Quality over quantity is my take.

I think this is is best. Based on Dr. Gundry(comes off as a quack), but it really cleared up some inflammation issues. Instead of sugar, I use Stevia which takes some time to get used to, but once you do, eating sugar seems weird.

mell says

Sure but this research is not FDA related or corporation sponsored, also medium chain fatty acids have been deemed healthy for quite a long time now.

I was referring to the FDA as a side bar. Corporations donate money to universities, 'research studies,' etc. with the predetermined intent, via their 'contributions,' to influence the 'study' in a way that is pleasing to the donators. You will never see that these corporations are financing these conflict of interest studies.

Problem with the alternative diet recommendations, is the guy recommending will promote and advertise what he sells vs. everything else. The gurus wind up contradicting each other. However, you can probably take recommendations in common more seriously i.e. nobody recommends starches, refined wheat flour products, cereals, fast food chips or certain oils like Canola or margarine. Also, avoid processed foods that contain an abundance of non fructose sugar.

I think the fiends have devised additives that work in combinations mostly through grains, refined starches, cereals, and some oils and vat stirred processed or paste foods to repress hormones. Combination poisons (i.e. different items from different sources add up to an inhibitor or poison) is the way they do things. If you eliminate the item that is required in the toxin chain to join with another, you can defeat the combination metabolic poisons even if you wind up consuming the incomplete parts. They want to go after basal metabolic rate and testosterone in particular. I think they also regard Vit. D and melatonin as their enemies.

I think some of Dr. Gudry's recommendations are good, some are excessively restrictive. He would have to give some very specific reasons for all the choices.

Ceffer says

Problem with the alternative diet recommendations, is the guy recommending will promote and advertise what he sells vs. everything else.

I recently heard one good rule for deciding what to eat: if it has to be advertised, you probably shouldn't eat it.

No one has to advertise, say, flour, butter, or eggs. But they do have to advertise fast food, packaged factory food, etc.

Ceffer says

nobody recommends starches, refined wheat flour products, cereals, fast food chips or certain oils like Canola or margarine.

Oh yeah?
https://youtu.be/n3wf717fKFE

Ceffer says

nobody recommends starches, refined wheat flour products, cereals, fast food chips or certain oils like Canola or margarine.

Tufts University 'Food Compass'

Three instances of product placement right there, proving corruption.

Tufts is pwned.

I've been craving me some millet and egg substitute fried in vegetable oil.

Dholliday126 says

I think this is is best. Based on Dr. Gundry(comes off as a quack), but it really cleared up some inflammation issues. Instead of sugar, I use Stevia which takes some time to get used to, but once you do, eating sugar seems weird.

He gets a lot right, but there's a bunch of good food on his Don't Eat list. That's my biggest problem with any of these people. If you become too restrictive, you have to really embrace variety in other places, or you end up malnourished.

A big miss on that graphic, nuts need to be raw, and refrigerated after opening. Otherwise the oils become rancid.

Honey is a complex sugar, one of the best things you can eat, especially for seasonal allergies. Yogurt has naturally occurring pro-biotics, and consumption through food is always better absorbed than through pills. Quinoa is a complete protein, Basmati rice is longer chained. Especially with what's coming, you WANT grains on hand. And unless you are a vegetable eating machine, don't say not to any veggies as long as they're organic.

Robert Sproul says

Ceffer says

nobody recommends starches, refined wheat flour products, cereals, fast food chips or certain oils like Canola or margarine.

Tufts University 'Food Compass'

All you have to do is invert the graph to know what to eat. What a load of seriously deadly bullshit.

Dholliday126 says

I use Stevia which takes some time to get used to, but once you do, eating sugar seems weird.

I used Stevia too.

If you're using Kal brand, they've recently changed their formulation somehow. It used to be "Pure Stevia" now it's "Sure Stevia".

Stevia is kind of cool in that a tiny bottle, lasts me literally more than a year. It's like $50 for a bottle of the powder, but it lasts forever. Stevia is very similar in flavor to saccharine, but it's (supposedly) healthier. I don't make much use of sweeteners, although I do like Chai and lemonade from time to time. Chai is just strongly brewed tea plus cardamon and ginger - you brew it with cracked cardamon pods and a slice or two of ginger root. I make a hell of a lot of it at once.

Stevia does NOT like dissolving in cold liquids, but it will eventually. I make coffee milk - use instant coffee and throw into 1/2 gallon of milk, plus stevia, then shake, and let it dissolve overnight. I made the mistake of drinking two glasses of the stuff today, and I'm wired off my ass.

Robert Sproul says

Ceffer says

nobody recommends starches, refined wheat flour products, cereals, fast food chips or certain oils like Canola or margarine.

Tufts University 'Food Compass'

HAHA - all the top recommended are junk foods except for kale and watermelon, both of which I hate.

richwicks says

Dholliday126 says

I use Stevia which takes some time to get used to, but once you do, eating sugar seems weird.

I used Stevia too.

If you're using Kal brand, they've recently changed their formulation somehow. It used to be "Pure Stevia" now it's "Sure Stevia".

Stevia is kind of cool in that a tiny bottle, lasts me literally more than a year. It's like $50 for a bottle of the powder, but it lasts forever. Stevia is very similar in flavor to saccharine, but it's (supposedly) healthier. I don't make much use of sweeteners, although I do like Chai and lemonade from time to time. Chai is just strongly brewed tea plus cardamon and ginger - you brew it with cracked cardamon pods and a slice or two of ginger root. I make a hell of a lot of it at once.

Stevia does NOT like dissolving in cold liquids, but it will eventually. I make coffee tea - use instant coffe...

There hasn't been a single non-sugar sweetener (artificial or natural), with the exception of sugar alcohol and monk fruit in moderation, which hasn't felt a bit off in the stomach. I'll stick with real sugar or honey (love honey) 99% of the time. Stevia is not bad though

Anything from Gov or any related groups and universities will be weighted in proportion to donations and lobbying by industrial food corporations. It is one of the reasons that actual nutrition is hard to figure out, a mass of economic propaganda and purposeful marketing persuasion and disinformation. The alternative food guru types also rely on targeted misinformation to sell shit, making the tower of nutritional Babel even worse.

Also, Pharma wants to keep you chronically ill to keep buying its products, so there's that.

mell says

There hasn't been a single non-sugar sweetener (artificial or natural), with the exception of sugar alcohol and monk fruit in moderation, which hasn't felt a bit off in the stomach. I'll stick with real sugar or honey (love honey) 99% of the time. Stevia is not bad though

I just try to avoid drinking calories and I don't drink much anyhow, unless it's in the form of some sort of beer. Do goddamned love beer. I wish there was a decent beer made, that had the alcohol removed, instead of it just being under-brewed. Seems like they could do it through a vacuum distillation process. There's a few sodas that are decent, THEY are brewed. You can't beat the complexity of a brewed product.

richwicks says

mell says

There hasn't been a single non-sugar sweetener (artificial or natural), with the exception of sugar alcohol and monk fruit in moderation, which hasn't felt a bit off in the stomach. I'll stick with real sugar or honey (love honey) 99% of the time. Stevia is not bad though

I just try to avoid drinking calories and I don't drink much anyhow, unless it's in the form of some sort of beer. Do goddamned love beer. I wish there was a decent beer made, that had the alcohol removed, instead of it just being under-brewed. Seems like they could do it through a vacuum distillation process. There's a few sodas that are decent, THEY are brewed. You can't beat the complexity of a brewed product.

I drink wine almost every night, 1-2 classes. Wine country makes some of the best wines of the world. I'd rather avoid sodas than wine, beer and the occasional hard liquor/cocktail

Lately I've discovered that Trader Joe's has a decent brandy for $10, looks like this:



It's really a bargain. You might get 20 shots out of it, so 50 cents each.

I'm no expert on brandy though. My only test is "Does it make me cringe?" This one does not.

Is it guaranteed to reverse the effects of spike protein?

Patrick says

I recently heard one good rule for deciding what to eat: if it has to be advertised, you probably shouldn't eat it.

Hey, good meme material there, so here I go:

Patrick says

Lately I've discovered that Trader Joe's has a decent brandy for $10, looks like this:



It's really a bargain. You might get 20 shots out of it, so 50 cents each.

I'm no expert on brandy though. My only test is "Does it make me cringe?" This one does not.

If you just want cheap alcohol, one thing I'd recommend is Popov vodka in a glass bottle - it's basically diluted everclear. Absolutely do not buy this in a plastic bottle.

It's essentially tasteless, and if you want to make some sort of infusion, it works well. I made ginger vodka. About a cup of (finely) chopped up ginger (packed into a measuring cup), mix with the vodka and let it sit for 4-6 days maybe give a shake here and there, remove the ginger. I'm going to play with rosemary next. I have a giant pyrex measuring cup, I just dump it into that, rise the bottle, and filter it back in. It's said you should peel the ginger, but, engh - I just used a vegetable brush to remove any dirt.

It's super cheap, under $7, basically has no flavor, at least not an offensive one, and it works well with mixed drinks. I would not recommend any vodka straight.

BTW - vanilla extract is nothing more than vanilla beans soaked in vodka. Ever had real vanilla? Probably not, since as children I bet ALL of us made vanilla extract in science class. Made banana too. Vanilla extract is made by taking dried beans, packing them into a small container, and adding just enough vodka to cover them. You end up with a deep dark brown liquid. Been a long time since I've made that, but I think I didn't remove the beans for like 2 weeks at least. Anything you use it in, the alcohol will boil off, unless you're mixing it with something that is going to be cold like ice cream, which has been 30 years since I've made.

Probably people ought to follow published recipes when I think about it: https://www.beanilla.com/blog/homemade-vanilla-extract since there's an army to criticize mistakes.

Robert Sproul says

Ceffer says

nobody recommends starches, refined wheat flour products, cereals, fast food chips or certain oils like Canola or margarine.

Tufts University 'Food Compass'

>honey nut cheerios(literally sugar on carbs)
76
>Ground beef(protein and healty fats)
23

Excuse me whaaaaaat

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/seed-oils-are-slowly-poisoning-us

Seed Oils are Slowly Poisoning Us & Our Children.
...and they are in EVERYTHING.

Not sure I agree with it all, but I remain very suspicious of all the new oils, especially rapeseed oil, aka "canola oil".

Patrick says

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/seed-oils-are-slowly-poisoning-us

Seed Oils are Slowly Poisoning Us & Our Children.
...and they are in EVERYTHING.

Not sure I agree with it all, but I remain very suspicious of all the new oils, especially rapeseed oil, aka "canola oil".

I don't buy most of it. Especially omega 6 is not bad for you, I consider walnuts one of the healtiest foods to eat and they are high in omega 6. To me this is mostly bs. Sure refined oils in high amounts are probably a bad idea. I'm also no fan of soybean and canola oil. But linking then to literally any disease is junk. So is promoting a carnivore only diet. I eat a lot of meat and love it, but there is bs on both sides. A meat only diet is not what I would recommend. To each their own.

mell says

A meat only diet is not what I would recommend. To each their own.

I go by the hypothesis that our ancestors fit their environment in order to survive in it, and we wouldn't exist, if they were killed by their environment. It was a tremendous advantage to have grandparents help raise children 1000 years ago.

For "my people", refined sugar didn't exist, beer did, but not refined alcohol. They got meat, on occasion, but often ate boiled vegetables. They had plenty of access to milk and eggs, but cheese not so much. Spices were a rarity. Salt wasn't too easy to get, but it was around, and they physically worked a lot.

Certain oils just didn't exist. Butter did, but not vegetable oil. Olive oil was a rarity and probably a treat. Lard was around, so was beef fat.

I'm Irish and Polish, I'd rather be dead than exist on their diet though. Polish food is bland, Irish food isn't so bad, but some of it is pretty disgusting for my palette. I'm never going to eat blood pudding. A lot of my ancestor's food, I consider suitable for dogs, but not for me. Guess I've become an elitist twat that my ancestors would want to spit on. That's fine, I respect them anyhow.

richwicks says

mell says

A meat only diet is not what I would recommend. To each their own.

I go by the hypothesis that our ancestors fit their environment in order to survive in it, and we wouldn't exist, if they were killed by their environment. It was a tremendous advantage to have grandparents help raise children 1000 years ago.

For "my people", refined sugar didn't exist, beer did, but not refined alcohol. They got meat, on occasion, but often ate boiled vegetables. They had plenty of access to milk and eggs, but cheese not so much. Spices were a rarity. Salt wasn't too easy to get, but it was around, and they physically worked a lot.

Certain oils just didn't exist. Butter did, but not vegetable oil. Olive oil was a rarity and probably a treat. Lard was around, so was beef fat.

I'm Irish and Polish, I'd rather be dead than exist on their diet though. Polish f...

I consider a boiled potato with skin, given it's not laced with pesticides (preferably organic origin), a perfectly healthy food (similarly carrots/yams). Superfood so to say. Gentle on the stomach and gives you almost all the nutrients you need, readily and easily to absorb, high in potassium. That's why I think potato chips aren't necessarily bad for you, in moderation. Not as good as the real potato deal though of course.

mell says

I consider a boiled potato with skin, given it's not laced with pesticides (preferably organic origin), a perfectly healthy food (similarly carrots/yams). Superfood so to say. Gentle on the stomach and gives you almost all the nutrients you need, readily and easily to absorb, high in potassium. That's why I think potato chips aren't necessarily bad for you, in moderation. Not as good as the real potato deal though of course.

I do enjoy baked potatoes. I can eat them with just salt and pepper on them, nothing else.

Potato chips though.. Umm, that's deep fried in some shit. When I want that I tend to cut up a potato or two into slices, dump them into water to soak over night, and then fry them in a pan of usually butter or ghee (ghee is just clarified butter - it's easy to buy here) to fry fry them up.

I'm becoming aware of deep fried anything at my age. I'm very aware of the oil. I'll do it sometimes, but rarely. My body tells me its bad for me. I cannot explain it, but eating deep fried anything my brain is saying "noooooooooo!" and really, I can taste all the oil, and it's too much. There a lot of foods I enjoyed as a kid that I now find disgusting now.

mell says

A meat only diet is not what I would recommend.

There are people who do it, but they eat head-to-toe. If you're going to do vegetarian or carnivore, either way the key is variety.

mell says

I consider a boiled potato with skin, given it's not laced with pesticides (preferably organic origin), a perfectly healthy food (similarly carrots/yams). Superfood so to say. Gentle on the stomach and gives you almost all the nutrients you need, readily and easily to absorb, high in potassium. That's why I think potato chips aren't necessarily bad for you, in moderation. Not as good as the real potato deal though of course.

The less cooked, the better. High heat is really the issue with chips. With baked, it's the soft starch/glucose increase.