Wheat, rice, oats, corn & soybeans are poverty foods that leaders feed poor people who don't know better...
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I'm curious to hear if there's any difference of opinion and why.
I eat rice and oats occasionally and it doesn't bother me, but I went a long time without either.
I read a book called Against the Grain—great read. One of the key takeaways is that societies historically relied so heavily on grains partly because they’re easier to tax. Grains like rice are uniform in size, store well, and are easy to measure. By contrast, something like a sweet potato harvest is much harder to tax because of the irregular sizes and shapes.
The author also compares bone records between large agrarian societies and so-called “barbarians” who consumed more protein and fats. Interestingly, the “barbarians” showed healthier bone density than their grain-eating counterparts.
Another great book by the artist is seeing like a state. Very eye opening book
Nice, thanks for the recommendation 🤙
Dr Berry and Saladino have almost identical viewpoints on everything except one huge idea: whether long term ketosis is beneficial for humans or not.
I personally didn't find the arguments against ketosis convincing, especially because there's something known as "keto calm".
But that doesn't really matter much. What matters is if you've tried 90 days of sustained ketosis that's interrupted only once or twice a day by eating a big portion of food rich in protein. If you tried and you found the benefits worth continuing, then continue. If you didn't then don't.
Thanks for the breakdown. In a recent video Paul was saying low fat high carbs high sugar could actually improve metabolic health, which surprised me.
Maybe I am taking what he said out of context though.
Yes, the way I understand it is that it applies to "normies" since for them lowering fat implies lowering seed oils and it may force mitochondria to recycle (autophagy).
I think if you want great health not just a quick hack then simply cutting seed oils entirely together with carbs is better. Reintroducing carbs may be acceptable in some cases but that depends on many factors like the amount, your activity level and your desire to eat them.
Anyway, these all are hypotheses and doing a proper experiment is nightmarishly difficult.
I tend to ask the people around me who are the most fit. The most fit people I know currently all eat sweet potatoes as well as other carbs.
Personal experimentation takes a lot of effort, but it might be the only way.
While I think it's correct to exclude people who are not fit (or visibly in the process of getting fit) when taking advice the assumption that whatever works for someone else will work for you is quite nuanced.
In principle, all other species eat their appropriate diets and there are no species where individuals eat vastly different diet. (e.g. no lions eat plants, no cows hunt for meat) Thus it's very likely it should be true for humans as well. However some differences definitely are present. The most famous example being lactose tolerance.
Thus if you observe that someone eats carbs and feels fine it may be that the person has higher carb tolerance. You may have high tolerance too or not but don't know for sure until you try. Though if you feel amazing and very happy and don't have symptoms of illnes or aging it's very likely you're fine.
Note that I specifically mentioned aging because some symptims that are commonly attributed to aging can be reversed with lifestyle change which suggests they actually aren't symptoms of aging.
Either way, good luck if you ever decide to try it out!
I appreciate the deep thoughts man. Yeah today I had almost no carbs and I feel good. Certainly not a first, but it's a constant journey.
So you're saying we should kill more people for your comfort? Shouldn't I start with you for my own comfort then?
what?
Why would these leaders encourage the production of these foods except that they can feed more people?
Perhaps you have experience with leaders who have the best interests of people in mind. Most of us don't ☹️
Nope. Best interest of the people would be a stable population, not a pump and dump. They want a larger population than they can sustain so they can temporarily enjoy the slave labor, and these crops help extend that
terrible for the people, terrible for the soil, terrible for wildlife... it's a long list
none of these things are true.
how they are grown, how they are stored, how they are prepared, how much is consumed, when they are consumed, where they are grown in relation to where they are consumed… all of these things are wrong in this culture because of how we think. it is user error. but we blame the item because it’s easier, and sells books.
Yes, fair enough - it's the monoculture of those crops that is so devastating to the environment, and it's their overuse in hyperpalatable foods that has been so bad for human health.