[HN Gopher] New research highlights the damage caused by process...
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New research highlights the damage caused by processed food
Author : jseliger
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-11-02 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| JoeNr76 wrote:
| Why are we still talking about the CIM? It failed practically
| every test we threw at it. Sure low carb diets can make you lose
| weight, but that's because you eat less, not because of insuline.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Can you give us some sources on that?
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Can someone, maybe even a nutritionist or doctor, recommend an
| authoritative textbook or course on nutrition? I would need
| something at the undergraduate or non-specialist graduate level.
| Being a topic that directly affects every day of the rest of my
| life, I would like to gain as sophisticated an understanding as a
| can, given limits of time. I could work through one textbook or
| course.
|
| I know there are not always authoritative answers about
| nutrition; there is much uncertainty. That's all the more reason
| to have the knowledge distilled by an expert (who would of course
| discuss uncertainties).
| zemvpferreira wrote:
| What interests you specifically? I've never read a nutrition
| textbook front-to-back but I spend a good portion of my time
| reading research and opinions on nutrition. I think I've
| cobbled together a pretty good education on the topic over the
| past decade. I'm sad to say 99% of what I've read has been hack
| science, stupidly obvious or minute in importance.
|
| It's almost troubling to me how far you can go just following
| Michael Pollan's old chestnut: eat (real) food, not too much,
| mostly plants. Barring any intolerances that right there will
| get you to near-optimal nutrition for general health in 8
| words.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| A couple things I've wondered about:
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| * The popular fake meats, such as Impossible burgers, seem like
| ultra-processed foods. Is that right? Are they healthier than
| meat (a question without a general answer, but worth
| considering)? They could help with climate change, regardless.
|
| * A basic question, but I haven't found an authoritative answer:
| Warnings about carbohydrates talk about processed foods but are
| silent on whole grains. Are whole grains a more healthy way to
| consume carbs?
| friedman23 wrote:
| "Plant based meats" are carbohydrate heavy so they are really
| only meat-like in terms of taste and texture but fail as meat
| replacements due to the completely different nutritional
| profile.
| lytefm wrote:
| If I recall correctly, carbohydrates alone can explain about 1/3
| of the variability in postprandial glucose responses [1]. That's
| a lot, but not the whole story.
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| Variability between individuals and also for the same meals at
| different times of the day or under different conditions is high.
|
| But overall, most of the recent nutritional research shows that
| grandma/mom was probably right in banning "junk food" and serving
| "natural" foods. We've invented highly processed foods before
| having fully adjusted to doing agriculture.
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| At least my better meals (w.r.t the post-meal glucose response)
| were fairly self-composed whereas frozen pizza & co gave me the
| worst spikes.
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| [1] source tomorrow, maybe
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