I made absolutely no suggestion that if something isn’t carnivore then it’s junk. You made that leap all by yourself.
I also bet cereal isn’t your only food
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You’re right I did make that jump, it was based on the content of the original post that your comment was for. Just sharing my thoughts on the narrative.
You’re also right that cereal isn’t my only food but that doesn’t really change the point I was making. If I ate some lead for breakfast every day and the rest of my diet was ‘perfect’ I’d still get lead poisoning and become sick from it.
I think the lead example if far fetched because whether in tiny amounts or large amounts it’s explicitly toxic to human tissue. Whereas the problem with cereals and constant ingestion of grains is the ceaseless minor damage building up over very extended periods. It’s mostly that the body never has time to repair the inflammation. But also some people can handle much more than others and your genetics and where in the world your ancestors are from matter too. Some people have integrated certain foods for tens of thousands of years, some were only exposed within a few hundred years. I fully recognize the picture isn’t perfectly identical for everyone.
Completely agree.
Also there is a great amount of evidence that a constant diet of that will very likely lead to chronic disorders, inflammation, and potentially cancer. But that doesn’t mean every single person who eats cereal gets cancer, and it certainly doesn’t mean that your other foods and lifestyle don’t change things. They clearly have an enormous effect.
Example, my friend’s grandmother smoked everyday until she was in her 90s and never got lung cancer. That wouldn’t be sufficient evidence that it’s fine for everyone to smoke everyday and there will be no consequences. I also ate cereal for much of my life until my mid twenties and never got cancer nor had a heart attack. But within weeks of drastically changing my diet away from foods like that, there were significant shifts, including a persistent full body “puffy ness” (inflammation) that I had never seen because I’d never corrected my diet for long enough to see it subside. My face literally looked different. My wife did the same and we can now see it in all of our old pictures. We can just look through pictures and know if it was before or after that period because our faces are just puffy.
That doesn’t mean the experience would be exactly the same for everyone, but we are constantly sold an absolute inversion of the truth when it comes to diet. We are told to eat grains, vegetables, and fibers when we get almost no nutrients from these things, can’t digest much of them, and they produce bad cholesterols, have bad oils, and carry tons of toxins. While simple animals oils, meat, good cholesterols, and healthy fats are not only not encouraged, but actively attacked.
We’ve done exactly what has been suggested by our “health professionals,” yet we are drowning in chronic disease, inflammation and are horribly unhealthy. The results speak for themselves, imo.
It would also seem to me to be backward for someone to be bothered about hearing that foods that are actually healthy… are in fact healthy - even if exaggerated to the importance. Especially when what amount to flat lies about the same topic are broadcast from every direction, pushed by much of the medical establishment, and repeated as gospel at every commercial break all day long. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe be bothered by that as well considering what it has done to our country? 🤔 Worth considering which one to focus on, imo.