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  • There are other nutrients than vitamin c and a, but If you’re eating a high seafood diet and lots of liver, great.

    Low carb isn’t going to magically protect you from cancer and heart disease. Studies don’t have to be specifically on low carb diets to be valid. Also ‘may be a significant risk factor’ is normal scientific wording for finding a statistical correlation.

    the intuit lived without plants, and without cancer I don’t think we have evidence for that, and I’m not sure it’s even relevant.

    More importantly though, even the best farming practices, there is no sustainable or environmentally friendly way to produce meat. Again, I’m not sure what the Inuit have to do with that, given how different our modern meat industry is. But growing food, feeding it to animals (who produce greenhouse gasses), and eating those animals is an extremely inefficient and destructive way to get food. Not to mention the horrific treatment, enslavement, and killing of those animals.



  • Keto is interesting, I haven’t personally tried it, but I definitely think it can be a useful tool, even if we don’t know how safe it is long term. However there are plant based ketogenic diets, so I don’t think that really supports a carnivore diet. It still remains that meat is linked to heart disease and cancer.

    Nutrient density and bioavailability is a fair point, but nothing that can’t be compensated for by either eating more of certain foods or supplements within a plant based diet. And even if you were convinced that meat is necessary anyway, how is a full meat diet better than a mixed diet?

    As far as ethics and environmental cost, while I agree with you that it could be less bad, meat production will never be ethical, nor sustainable. Raising cows for example, even with the most natural methods, still uses an enormous amout of resources including land and water for feed. And unless you’re somehow capturing the methane produced, that has a significant environmental cost as well.

    The current reality of the meat industry today is much worse, though. If you’re eating meat today, you’re supporting today’s meat industry.










  • My point is that all these factors are real, and they do tip the scale, but at the end of the day, how much you eat determines whether you gain or lose weight.

    I’m not saying other factors can’t make a significant difference. (genetics and epigenetics play a role.) I’m also not saying that it’s easy. (food, especially fast food can light up people’s brains in a way that mirrors drug addiction.)

    But if you eat less while burning the same number of calories, you WILL lose weight. That’s not an opinion, it’s a law of physics.




  • I kinda don’t hate this, if it’s an eternal youth / total invincibility sort of thing, and existing in the vacuum of space isn’t uncomfortable.

    Actually, with future technology it might be possible to modify our brains to make a sort of shared virtual dream world, with an avatar-style neural connection. Not a bad way to spend eternity.

    Also even without brain/body modification, we might be able to train ourselves to hibernate and just wait for a big quantum fluctuation. Assuming the universe doesn’t have an end, we would eventually meet intelligent life, even humans, again.

    I’m honestly undecided. As a mortal human, I don’t really know if I want true immortality or not.