Just so gross

All great things start somewhere

I was threatened a couple of weeks ago by a guy that said he would make life a living hell for me because I never approved him for one of my rentals.. and every day for the past 10 days I’ve gotten 1 star reviews and it’s brought my ratings from a 4.5 star to under 4

Google seems impossible to reach..and I’ve asked before and they dont do much about it

Not sure what to do…

Damn, another company pulling out of the USA…

Baby geese are adorable.

Ive not spent very much of my life in the city..

Embarrassing fact.. I’ve only been to two concerts in my life..

I’ve never really partied in the city atmosphere before.. smaller clubs and lounges only

Informal poll: do you want to see the original translated text next to the translated one or … would you rather only see the translation with an option to reveal the original?

Personally, Im in the 2nd camp: show translation only and tap to show original. Having 2 texts side by side throws off the scroll flow for me and I tend to skip those notes often as a habit.

It was one of Anthony Chaffee's interviews that got me to take the idea of "mostly not plants" seriously.

He's been the primary influence for my decision to make changes.

I also highly recommend his videos!

"Omnivore" is a bit misleading

Most carnivores can eat some plants

eg lions sometimes eat grass (probably as a digestive aid)

Most herbivores can eat some animals

eg deer sometimes scavenge carrion

Most omnivores heavily specialize in either meat or plants

(really the specializations are a bit more detailed than that, with not much overlap between vertebrate and invertebrate consumption, and specialization among various plant parts such as leaves, fruit, seeds, tubers, gums and fungi)

Among mammals, the "true generalists" who do not heavily specialize in any one food source are almost all rodents. Virtually all mammal consumption of grain/seeds comes from specialized herbivores (eg ruminants such as cows and sheep) or from these rodent generalists.

Humans are definitely evolved to eat meat, especially large fatty animals. We have limited ability to convert protein into energy and so on a meat-based diet need ample fat. There are many nutrients in meat that we can't get (or can't get efficiently) from plant sources. Vitamin B12 is absolutely essential and cannot be had from plants (vegans have to supplement). Other vitamins like vitamin A are found in the human-usable form in meat but only in a precursor form in plants, which our body converts inefficiently (so "Vitamin A" is not necessarily Vitamin A).

Our shared ancestor with chimpanzees probably ate quite a bit of fruit. Modern fruit doesn't resemble wild fruit, and humans are evolved to suppress uricase and therefore struggle to break down uric acid which is a byproduct of our fructose metabolism (hypothesis: this aids in adding body fat during fruit season to survive the winter). So moderate fruit intake isn't the worst thing but will give you gout symptoms and tend to accumulate body fat, especially in the liver where sugars/alcohol are converted into fat. In my opinion the best fruits for human consumption are fatty stone fruit like olive and avocado. Semi-sweet stone fruit may work well such as peaches, cherries and plums. Berries may work well, especially strawberry which is high in vitamin C (to offset the negative VitC impact of sugar consumption).

Starchy roots & tubers (USO - underground storage organ) are handled OK, most will simply break down into glucose. Excess glucose for long periods will probably give insulin resistance, and there are certain deficiencies in USOs that some human populations are adapted to deal with and others are not. If you are descended from a population that ate lots of USOs you still need meat but can probably get a chunk of your calories from USOs without too much negative effect.

Certain human populations are adapted for dairy, for example continuing to produce lactase into adulthood (to break down lactose). You may be able to eat some dairy products (eg cheese, butter, yogurt) and not others (eg milk) or you may not handle dairy well. Keep in mind dairy is optimized for infant animal growth, so if you're trying to lose weight it may be a poor choice.

Finally we have little or no evolutionary history that would make insects, grains, seeds, nuts, leafy greens, plant bodies, fungi, gums or honey suitable foods.

"Eat less move more" is fiat weight-loss advice.

When you eat a species-appropriate diet of exclusively protein & fat, your metabolic system utilizes its fat stores for fuel rather than storing them on the body, making it effectively impossible to accumulate excess bodyfat.

The obesity epidemic is a carbohydrate epidemic.