tl;dr Eat what your ancestors ate. Generic diet advice is bad advice. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v13/n3/full/5201297a.html … http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n5/abs/ng.2939.html … http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377015/?report=classic …
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@zooko No, it's a terrible assumption. Even simplest carb digestion genetic difference gives factor of 8 different risk of obesity.
@zooko Generic study shows at best that a diet saves slightly > than it kills, in pop studied. Almost no info on if will kill you or me.
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@zooko Genetic info vastly more informative, next best ancestry also more informative.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NickSzabo4 I don't know what you mean by this. Can you give me an example of such a study? -
@zooko Practically all modern diet studies are examples of such fallacious generalization. -
@NickSzabo4 Here's an example of evidence that low-carb is good for people whose ancestors ate grains: https://zooko.com/file/URI%3ACHK%3Axgehsovt4t76o7ppfs6lazwpyq%3Ayq5hvkyur4xa6vfbov3f6yvyxcxmyoucth3a4hldnunnqm4xhdta%3A1%3A1%3A563329/@@named=/Hussain-2012-Effect_Of_Low-calorie_Versus_Low-Carbohydrate_Ketogenic_Diet_In_Type_2_Diabetes.pdf … -
@NickSzabo4 It isn't stated if the participants were Kuwaiti, Egyptian, etc. but they probably came from a long line of grain eaters. -
@zooko Arab pastoralist vs. carb ag ancestry unclear. Study should have recorded subjects' ancestry, genes, or both. Good try though.
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