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Does this mean the basic or common diet of the Japanese is wrong and unhealthy?

Better than the standard American diet, but it can be better, especially if one wants to lose weight.

Secondly, low-carb diets have been around since the 1800s. If they are the one-size-fits-all solution, why didn't we avoid the obesity epidemic altogether?

Well, we always hear that we need to reduce fat and meat intake. If they encouraged low carb diets, we wouldn't have this obesity epidemic.

And don't say captured institutions,

Well, why else would these institutions, which are heavily funded by big food and big pharma, so consistently make the wrong recommendations?

If one instead gets most of their energy from fat, they become fat adapted allowing them to efficiently burn their fat, which is exactly what you want if weight loss is the goal.

As usual, there is always an "easy" solution that is not only not effective but instead make the problem worse, according to the best available evidence there is no merit on the fad diets that call for reduction of carbohydrates to unhealthy levels, and specially those that call for unhealthy levels of cholesterol to be ignored to push for more fats in the diet.

Yeah the "best available evidence" is responsible for the widespread obesity. There is no requirement for carbs, not even one gram. There is nothing unhealthy about cutting carbs, even cutting them completely. So yeah, cutting carbs is an easy solution, but few people try it because it goes against the advice given by the captured associations and the doctors who have little or no training in nutrition and just parrot what those associations recommend.

”Calories in, calories out” is over simplistic and doesn't work. Not all calories are equal, unless you're a bomb calorimeter.

Eating carbs causes insulin release, which basically tells your body to not use your fat deposits, the opposite of what you want if weight loss is the goal.

If one instead gets most of their energy from fat, they become fat adapted allowing them to efficiently burn their fat, which is exactly what you want if weight loss is the goal.

Mnemonics such as the 4 F’s of food – fibers, polyphenols, unsaturated fats and ferments –

Naah, I'll stick with BBBE - beef, butter, bacon, and eggs

I love how the Russians don't even bother trying to pretend Putin isn't an inept loser of a dictator.

Riiight, he's a "dictator" with infinitely greater approval than any western leader. And he's successfully defending his nation from a NATO proxy war.

Also, I'm not sure about recommending restrictive diets that I have yet to find any conclusive research on their long-term effects

Cutting out dietary carb is not any more restrictive than cutting out alcohol. There is no need for it.

Eat real food and cut the carbs. For obese people, they should ideally cut carbs completely.

Carnivore is good, but keto is fine too.

Their BMI will decrease faster and they'll be healthier than with these risky drugs.

As always, first consult with a health professional.

Unfortunately, for too many people, consulting with a health professional has not been very helpful.

BTW, what is more profitable to a doctor, prescribing and providing daily injections of a this new expensive risky drug, or telling their patient to cut carbs?

Eat real food and cut the carbs. For obese people, they should ideally cut carbs completely.

Carnivore is good, but keto is fine too.

Their BMI will decrease faster and they'll be healthier than with these risky drugs.

Links to any respected medical organizations that agree the keto diet and or carnivore are safe long term?

Naah, the medical organizations you consider "respectable" are heavily funded by big pharma and big food. That's why the problem is just getting worst. The people want to do the right thing and be healthier, but they are always given the wrong advice. I have no respect for those corrupt organizations.

A major problem is that the dietary advice that is usually given is completely inadequate.

What dietary advice would you give these children?

Eat real food and cut the carbs. For obese people, they should ideally cut carbs completely.

Carnivore is good, but keto is fine too.

Their BMI will decrease faster and they'll be healthier than with these risky drugs.

So 54% of the children receiving daily injections failed to reduce their BMI by 5%!

I'm guessing someone forgot to account for the fact that kids are also growing at that age...

That could be relevant if we're only talking about reducing weight. I would not expect these kids to just grow fatter, without increasing in height, especially with daily injections of this risky drug....

After a little over a year, 46 percent of the children receiving the drug saw their body mass index (BMI) shrink by at least five percent, according to the study.

So 54% of the children receiving daily injections failed to reduce their BMI by 5%!

And considering that the weight loss from this drug is often mostly loss of lean mass. Definitely not worth the risk of severe adverse effects.

Lead study author Claudia Fox of the University of Minnesota said that kids living with obesity are currently told to just "try harder with diet and exercise".

A major problem is that the dietary advice that is usually given is completely inadequate.

The MSM and others did everything they could to prop up Biden, and after his disastrous debate they put all their efforts to prop up Harris. Does anyone actually believe that the Trump-Harris debate was not setup to prop up Harris and bring down Trump?

Freedom of speech was great until social media came along.

Oh, I see; so freedom of speech was great when only a select few were able to disseminate information?

Yes, and this "climate change crisis" is part of that corruption.

On the opposite, corruption is trying to minimize the huge problem investing lots of money into misleading people into thinking there is nothing to worry about...

Indeed, there is so much money spent on providing us with almost daily reports reminding us that there is nothing to worry about with climate... oh wait!!!

In fairness, the CO2 emissions per person for the USA as a whole are only slightly better than Australia's, while the CO2 emissions per person here in California are only about half as much as Australia's.

I believe the military contribution is not included in the US CO2 emissions. If they did include it...

As millions of israelis are leaving the Middle East, I doubt any will remain in what is today called israel.

Are they?

Yes.

Where are they going?

I don't know, but I suspect they are returning to which ever country they came from.

As millions of israelis are leaving the Middle East, I doubt any will remain in what is today called israel.

war in Ukraine is also a sensitive issue

Cue the media telling us that Germans who want peace are "far-right"

Yeah, those who call for peace and freedom are "far-right extremists."

At Ukraine's expense, absolutely it is pro-Putin nonsense.

Pushing Ukraine to fight is pro-Biden nonsense; Ukrainians are paying the ultimate price.

Where they got those weapon to assassinate those aid worker?

They can thank the Biden-Harris administration for continuing to fund and arm israel.

More terrorists who are trying to go undercover as relief workers taken out by Israel.

Naah, it's the world's premier terrorist organization going undercover as the "world's most moral military".

Yes, I know that, I was pointing out that many products are unnecessarily loaded with toxic chemicals.

By saying that sharing a list of the toxic chemicals included in natural products should be a reason to avoid them? That would make the opposite point.

Since you're clearly not getting the simple point I'm making, I'll make it even simpler.

Let's say there is a brand of cookies sold in the UK that has raspberry extract added as a coloring agent. And in the US we can get the exact same brand of cookies except that instead of the raspberry extract, they use Red Dye #3, a confirmed carcinogen.

Having a preference for the UK version over the US version is not an "irrational fear of anything chemical", it's common sense.

Having a list of scary chemicals do not make something ultra-processed.

Yes, I know that, I was pointing out that many products are unnecessarily loaded with toxic chemicals. Some US manufacturers use fruit extracts to add color to their products for EU consumption, but the same product for US consumption will instead have toxic petroleum derived dyes. In other words, they could make them less unhealthy but they choose not to.

You mean pesticides that have demonstrated carcinogenic and mutagenic activity like glucosinolates, indoles, isothiocyanates, cyanides, phenols, etc?

https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2018/08/09/natural-pesticides-in-a-cabbage/

Oh, are you saying we shouldn't eat cabbage and other vegetables?

always read small letters with contents.

its like some report from chemical lab.

The list of ingredients is especially worrying in the US. Some manufacturers add synthetic dyes to the products meant for US consumers, but replace them with natural dyes in products meant for EU consumers, because the synthetic ones are banned there.

It's best to stick with single ingredient products and prepare the food yourself; it ain't that difficult.

When sweat dries, evaporation, it consumes a rather large amount of heat converting a liquid into a gas.

Yeah, but once the skin dries, you're just blowing hot air against dry skin. As ian wrote: "like using a hair dryer on your skin."

Without a fan, your skin stays wet and cools as it is meant to.

I've never used these fans, but on a very hot day when I bicycled home around noon it felt like I was in an oven because of the hot air hitting my body; but simply walking was fine (hot but not so uncomfortable).

When the air temperature is higher than body temp, fans can make things worse.

Using a fan with a cooling element might be helpful, though I've never used them so I don't know how well they work...

Stockpiling vaccines instead of providing them to the affected countries means...

Yes, I completely agree countries should not stockpile vaccines.

Even worse with agents of disinformation endlessly repeating mistaken information about the disease, trying to mislead others

Here too I completely agree, agents of disinformation are awful...

Isn't sweat supposed to remove heat?

Yes, and as you sweat your skin cools down, and the sweat on your skin also cools down. But when the air is higher than body temp, you might eliminate this.

When the air temperature is higher than body temp, fans can make things worse.

Companies need to make workers aware of long COVID and provide a system that helps patients return to work smoothly and comfortably so they can take time off with peace of mind.

Companies and governments should also make people aware of vaccine injuries ... and help them return to work smoothly and comfortably so they can take time off with peace of mind.

Feeling groggy in the afternoon?

Yeah, carbs will do that....

Funny that. I used to always crash soon after lunch if I had pasta, potatoes, rice or bread. Since shifting to ketovore, that crash no longer happens and I have a consistently higher level of concentration throughout the day.

Exactly! But it seems many here prefer feeling groggy....