kinda think we should stop trying to make food that tastes like other food
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the implicit frame of every attempt to top-down control your diet is "i can't trust my sense of taste to decide what to eat" and well the fact that everything is flavored to taste like better food than it is might have something to do with that 🤔
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your sense of taste can become exquisitely sensitive to fine details of exactly what micronutrients you need at a given time but it needs accurate training data about what raw ingredients taste like
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modern processed food is a deeply adversarial data set to train on. it is in some sense lying to your sense of taste
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it's dispiriting to me that mainstream american food culture has given up so completely on the sense of taste. we just take for granted that it's disconnected from or even diametrically opposed to health. it doesn't have to be
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when you eat food that's unhealthy you can pay attention to what feels bad about it instead of blocking it out. the heaviness, the bloatiness. conversely you can pay attention to what feels good about fruits, veggies, etc. there's a whole thing here i wish i knew more about
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the only diet advice i can sustainably actually follow, and personally i think it is much, much better than measuring calories or macros
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The best diet advice I’ve ever heard (on top of actually measuring calories/macros) is to *really* pay attention to how you feel for the next 6-12 hours.
A lot of people eat so poorly they’ve stopped recognizing how terrible crappy food makes you feel.
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part of this is probably that the food most people are eating is just not the same thing you'd get right after it's grown
hard to denigrate modern supply chains, but after it goes through necessary steps to store and distribute properly it will lose something
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I might nitpick some of the details, but I think you're on to something deeply important here.
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In the absence of refined sugar, children will pick balanced meal for themselves. They will happily eat their veggies.
The fact that it's a trope that they won't is baaad. It's artificial.
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