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Genuine question, how many influencers on TickTock actually get paid directly by the people watching them?
I’m sure there have been more changes in his life between these photos than him switching from seed oils to beef tallow.
Maybe I’m not explaining myself well. The point I’m trying to make is distilling this differences down to one variable is inaccurate. Diet may be the main one but it is not the only one.
To your point about it being a tropical paradise where food was plentiful and easily available; that may be so but hunting, fishing, collecting fruit etc takes a lot more effort / burns more calories than driving to the shop.
Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not trying to argue that poor diet is not the reason so many people are overweight. What I am trying to say is that there are also other factors at play that should not be dismissed as irrelevant.
To your point about calories not causing obesity. This is again oversimplifying a complex topic but to look at it purely scientifically it would be physically impossible to gain weight if the total calories you consumed were less than total calories you burnt regardless of where those calories come from. When you get right down to it you cannot cheat this equation. Calories in > calories out = weight gain. Calories in < calories out = weight loss.
To your final point, I do have an open mind. That is how I am able to appreciate that the cause of obesity is not purely diet. To be honest I found this last comment a little unnecessary. You don’t know anything about me, my background, qualifications or the reason I’m here on Nostr.
Like I said, I’m not inherently disagreeing on the impact of diet.
This is a much more honest comparison because (I’m assuming) no-one is selectively breeding Samoans to be overweight.
Total calories consumed and ease of access to those calories does till factor in though. There were no supermarkets 150 years ago so it’s highly likely that total calories consumed would have been lower and ease of accessing those calories much harder.
How can you possibly know that? The one on the right is a wild animal. And even if that is true it completely ignores the selective breeding that has happened to produce the one on the left.
I’m not disagreeing with the premise that some foods are inherently bad for us but using these 2 pictures is misleading because diet is not the only reason for the difference between them.
The association being that soy, grains and oil make you fat?
While this may well be true you’re failing to take into account selective breeding, total calories available and ease of getting those calories.
@Aftersound asking the real questions.
Brilliant 😂
Pretty sure only people from the UK will get this
If you’re not from the UK and you get it good for you
or cudos to your geography teacher
*For a lot of people
Seems like you’re prioritizing different things than what nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs is suggesting.
See, they’re hard.
You could argue that this is true for me and children but not for what people eat. Eating ‘right’ vs not eating is not really a choice
Fair.
But not everyone here is American and the world is much bigger than the USA.
Fiat news. People are searching for the thing directly having an impact rather than the thing that might be driving the thing that is having an impact.
This guy couldn’t distinguish between correlation and causation if his life depended on it.
This is what I came to say. LLMs parrot the most likely answer based on the data set they have been trained on.
nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs holding, thinking, working out. These cost nothing. Anyone can do them if they chose to.
Having kids, eating right. These are not without cost. The things on your list are no all equal.
If you want specific examples;
I could not afford to have more kids and continue to live where I do. For me this is more than difficult it is untenable.
I have traveled to places where the options that people have are eat what is available or don’t eat.
I have a business partner / friend in Azerbaijan.
Whenever I visit we drink vodka.
It is considered rude to not finish the bottle.
It never fails to amaze me how strong friendships can be built by getting 1/2 cut together.
AND
When you sit down and share a meal with someone, no matter where they are from, if you engage in conversation with them you will realise that they are no different than you.
We’re all just hairless apes making our way through this world as best we can. Except for those that are genuine scum and fuck them.
Correction, making my wife feel bad. I’m happy for them to clean up my shit if I’m paying for it.