This!

Many people’s hormones are out of balance due to a diet with lots of sugar and fructose. It never hurts to cut down and see if things improve

That photo gives me anxiety

You can use forks of firefox that dont build in the tracking, such as mullvad browser.

It’s spying with extra steps. As long as nobody collaborates with the company paying them money, it’s perfect.

It was flagged when I made my comment, they must have approved it since then

People love to post political stuff, the bot picks it up, but on hacker News itself it gets flagged and removed pretty quickly

Basically, we get the unmoderated view of hacker News

allowed to walk away from court on a two-year good behaviour bond.

Cholesterol is a broad term and doesn’t address the specifics necessary to addr iness overall average health for an individual.

I agree completely, people should not be trying to treat a cholesterol number. They should be optimizing their metabolic health. Cholesterol should be an indicator that further follow-up is required, either arterial imaging, or diet and lifestyle interventions

Then there is the whole “sugar” issue. There are dozens of sugars and we only associate the term with fructose or sucrose. We can technically name all sorts of things as sugars, but if it doesn’t include sucrose and fructose explicitly, then it “isn’t” sugar on the label.

Happily, all of those sugars do get included in the carbohydrate label on packaging. I would say dietary carbohydrates are the biggest culprit in cardiovascular disease, and that’s what people should focus on instead of cholesterol.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/saturated-fat#evidence-to-date

Not all experts agree.

• A 2009 meta-analysis of 28 cohort studies and 16 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) concluded “The available evidence from cohort and randomised controlled trials is unsatisfactory and unreliable to make judgment about and substantiate the effects of dietary fat on risk of CHD.”

• A 2010 meta-analysis of 21 cohort studies found no association between saturated fat intake on CHD outcomes.

• A 2014 systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials found that the evidence does not clearly support dietary guidelines that limit intake of saturated fats and replace them with polyunsaturated fats.

• A 2015 meta-analysis of 17 observational studies found that saturated fats had no association with heart disease, all-cause mortality, or any other disease.

• A 2017 meta-analysis of 7 cohort studies found no significant association between saturated fat intake and CHD death.

Plus more at the above well cited reference

Extremely well written! Thank you for putting that together

Eating lots of meat isn’t a problem for cholesterol

There is a group of people, the LMHR (lean mass hyper responders) who do have highly elevated cholesterol on very keto/carnivore diets.

The outstanding question is if cholesterol is actually harmful in of itself - the data I’ve seen indicates that it isn’t harmful.

“They” can also just he normal people who don’t want to be wrong. Doctors are famous for their humility and self reflection.

The cholesterol heart hypothesis was pushed by ancel Keys, who has since been shown to be a dishonest academic, leaving out data, or abandoning research if the results didn’t math the preconceived conclusions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys

In medicine, like many fields, sometimes the old guard has to retire out before change can happen.

I’m also a [email protected] and I’ve satisfied myself that LDL by itself is not a risk factor I should be concerned with.

it doesn’t have to be a card. it’s up to you, but even if it is…

Going to the ATM to get cash, then spending that cash on a donation box doesn’t create a relationship with the donation box.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/faq/#anchor-buy

i could also just donate with crypto and not have the banks, the credit card system involved at all.

Look at how simple the GOS donation page is: https://grapheneos.org/donate

Send money, done.

donate.wikimedia.org as an example, requires a email address, and their policy is

We do not sell or trade your information to anyone. By donating, you agree to share your personal information with the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and its service providers pursuant to our donor policy. Wikimedia Foundation and its service providers are located in the United States and in other countries whose privacy laws may not be equivalent to your own. For more information please read our donor policy.

they keep all of the personal info, so yes, it very much starts a relationship with them.

In order to donate with traditional systems, you have to dox yourself

I use monero, and I donate to projects in monero.

I don’t want to start a relationship with those I donate to, I want to drop money in the pot and walk away. I don’t want followup emails, I don’t want to be on a donor list, I don’t want call to action phone calls.

Every other form of transaction starts a permanent relationship. I don’t like that

If you need it, you need it.

I just found ways to replace my old pills with food and lifestyle

I was on 3, but I got rid of them all.

I want to live without any pills!

Those diamonds indicate what chemical hazards are inside the building, for fire and rescue operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_704

There is no difference between carbs as sugar and carbs. They all end up in the blood stream as glucose.

Fructose is really bad and usually doesn’t get converted to glucose.

Fiber is not absorbed by the body and just passes through.

Carbohydrates are not essential for human life. You can be perfectly healthy without eating them. The body does use glucose for blood cells and about 15% of brain metabolism, but that can be created by the liver on a as needed basis.

There are people who differentiate carbohydrates based on how quickly they arrive in the blood stream as glucose, in my view that’s a unnecessary distinction. Elevated blood glucose is really dangerous for the body, regardless of how delayed it is. That’s why the body prioritizes burning the glucose off first when it’s elevated in the body.

What function does elevated glucose have? (I.e. why eat carbohydrates)

• increase blood sugar for hypoglycemia
• raise insulin levels
• some athletes believe it helps their performance

The sports term is carb loading, and for non-fat adapted athletes it does help their endurance, prevents bonking. But for fat adapter athletes who don’t eat carbs, it’s unnecessary as they don’t bonk. The blood only carries 5g of glucose, and when you use it all up you can bonk, the body does not store glucose at all… the body stores fat. So people who burn fat don’t bonk because they don’t run out of energy

What benefit does fiber have?

• reduces transit time of all food
• reduces absorption of other food
• can be converted into short chain fatty acids in the intestines

Obviously, reducing the nutrition from the food you eat is only a “good” thing if your diet is unhealthy.

The SCFA’s are interesting, you can eat fiber and have some of it turn into fat by bacteria, or you can just eat fat directly and skip the middle man. This is the whole “fiber feeds the gut” argument you hear, gut research is still early stages. Its not clear what the ideal biome is, but whatever you eat will determine what lives in the gut. The bacteria will adapt to your diet and stabilize in about 9 months.

Some people believe fiber helps with constipation because of the reduced transit time, that isn’t actually true. Fiber is actual causal of constipation (in one RCT, the only fiber RCT that exists…)