may need to become obsessed with micronutrient deficiencies and food sensitivities for awhile next
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i've accidentally been eating a bunch of gluten (from stuff like soy sauce and teriyaki sauce) and it's been fucking my shit up, my god, i forgot how bad it is. i get knocked out for half a day
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heavily processed food is one thing but someone told me once that for various reasons even fresh raw ingredients are less nutritious than they used to be - i forget the details but that's a haunting prospect 😬 is everyone malnourished all the time or what
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part of the story i remember hearing is that this might be a contributor to the obesity epidemic too - if all food is less nutritious you have to eat too many calories to get enough micronutrients 😬😬😬
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i ate 4 pieces of salmon sashimi as part of dinner tonight and i legitimately feel a little body high right now which is fucking crazy. google says salmon is high in "vitamins B3, B5, B6, B12, vitamin D, vitamin E and selenium." hmm
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HMM
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I wrote an essay about an extremely interesting theory of the obesity epidemic that I came across. Read a history of fad diets, how croissants can help you lose weight, and details about squirrel hibernation and mania you never knew you needed to know:
arcove.substack.com/p/bear-nation
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8 tend to be pretty skeptical here, because most arguments tend to devolve to a esthetic arguments. Appeals to nature and all that jazz.
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Short answer: yes.
Long answer: it's complicated
For instance:
Magnesium depletion in crop soil is a serious unspoken of issue. We barely get any comparative to a century ago.
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A trick I learned is that chlorophyll has magnesium in it and it's also what gives greens their color
So literally find green stuff and eat it to fix magnesium deficiency
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yes? 😬
depleted soil from industrial ag and higher-yield varieties selected for size and non-uniqueness mean poorer nutrition
also read recently that increasing CO2 levels could be contributing
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plus GMOs are bred to contain more anti-nutrients bc it makes them more robust and— surprise— harder to digest
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This is my pet theory on why people are obese:
Surprise! It's because they're starving
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The study floating around claiming veggies hve 10x less nutriets now then 100 years ago was pretty much destroyed by science banana
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