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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 week ago (15 children)

To anyone out there with the 'i can eat whatever I want without getting fat' idea, yeah it's not quite like that. Cholesterol and visceral fat are killers. So yeah, eat as much as you like but the healthy food factor applies to us all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Your concept of cholesterol is well outdated.

The ancient idea: cholesterol is bad

The old idea: there is low density cholesterol which is bad and high density cholesterol which is good

The current idea: there is low density cholesterol which is returning unloaded high density cholesterol which is good; there is high density cholesterol which is good; there is small dense cholesterol which is bad. That's all really hard to test for, so get a coronary calcium score instead

Cholesterol carries fat around your body for energy. If you eat too much carbohydrate too often you never give your body any chance to use the fat...

(your body burns energy from most dangerous to least: alcohol immediately as it's a literal poison; sugars (the main energy in carbohydrate based food) second as too much will destroy nerves - excess is converted to fat and stored to prevent too high concentrations until or unless that system is broken (type 1 diabetes) or over used (type 2) - ; then fat (excess fat is evacuated via faeces or vomit); then protein (protein tastes bad after you have had enough, so it's hard to overeat))

... and so the cholesterol fails, breaking up and spewing out its load of fat. So the blood test that actually gives useful cholesterol information is high cholesterol with high free fatty acids (FFA) because the FFA is high because of the failed cholesterol

That's a simplified version and isn't quite technically correct, I'm not a scientist in that area so I'm not good at recalling the full detail.

We evolved in an environment where most of the year there was mostly meat to eat, along with whatever perennial plants can be found in winter. In summer for a few weeks whatever fruit grew near you was available.

We haven't had time to adapt to eating grass seeds (wheat, rice, corn, barley, etc). We have only had those in any large amount for 10 000 years which is a blink of an eye evolutionarily. The native Americans of the Great Plains ate only buffalo, eating it fresh during mass kills in summer, and preserving tons of meat and fat as "pemmican" a 50/50 blend of pounded dried meat with melted buffalo fat, sewn into buffalo skins for the rest of the year. When Europeans first saw them they described them as more fine nude than a noble in his finest clothes, tall and built like Adonis. Learning all this I changed to eating only animal products (beef and eggs) and found my health improve incredibly. It helped that I'm allergic to many grasses, including lawn, bamboo, and wheat, and cutting wheat out of my diet, along with all processed foods could only be good

You are correct on excess visceral fat. It'll kill you. Those broken cholesterol molecules - the small dense cholesterol - is the stuff that collides with blood vessel walls and accumulates calcium. Chronic carbohydrate consumption gives you coronary artery disease.

TLDR; too much carbohydrate too often breaks the body's fat transport system making the newly discovered bad cholesterol which causes heart disease

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It was a general use of the word cholesterol - no concept was defined

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My cholesterol is unhealthily low, what do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Increase your meat (including animal fat) intake, eat eggs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I already binge eggs and choline containing foods 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

In comparison I eat almost only beef and eggs. Occasionally chicken and lamb. That had all my blood work in order, though it took 2 years to go from obese to the top of normal the blood work got good in only a couple of weeks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What did you change to correct bloods?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I cut out all plant based food and substituted fatty meat and eggs

Beware though that reference ranges are averages of the population the testing lab sees and only sick people get their blood checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Protein go brrr. What was your health problem?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I was fat, not anymore; hay fever, gone; gout, gone

[–] Viking_Hippie 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You will not regret eating 18-20 avocados in a day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I can't afford that. They don't just grow on trees

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Talk to a doctor instead of a buncha chuckle-fucks on the internet.

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[–] Etterra 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What the hell is a "roastie?"

[–] lessthanluigi 133 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I think it means an older woman, referring to her vagina resembling "roast beef", implying it and her to be undesirable.

Idk, something misogynistic

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

Correct. Jealous, resentful people making fun of other people for having sex. Tale as old as time.

[–] toynbee 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your comment is helpful and appropriate in context, yet it is difficult not to downvote it due to its content.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Downvote OP for posting misogynist shit and not the person pointing out out (on request, no less)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The op didn't make the original 4chan post, it's funny because actual OP is clearly an idiot, misogyny included.

Very much a "laughing at" not "laughing with" situation.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I thought it meant that she was a roastie as in sizzling hot. Dunno, never grilled a woman before.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

A woman who, from having multiple sexual partners, has her stuff look like roast beef. Another reply mentioned older women but it is used for any woman, really.

It's... yeah.

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[–] xantoxis 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not really interested in seeing incel shit on here even if it's self-deprecating.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Not sure what your angle is but you can just block a community (or instance). Telling people what they can post usually doesn't work

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Mad about 4chan shit on a 4chan community

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Block the community?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Asudox 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

So that's what fam is short for.

[–] jaybone 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Leg 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Incel misogynistic slur for "woman", referring to their genitals as resembling roast beef.

[–] nutsack 8 points 1 week ago

Don't worry about it

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[–] Sanctus 31 points 1 week ago

You succeeded, Anon.

[–] username_unavailable 12 points 1 week ago

You were going for a joke about needing help burning off those calories later OP.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fat phobia and misogyny, neat 📸

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They talk about how they can eat what they want and not get fat as if being fat is a problem. Talking about fat being a problem is fatphobia. Trying to fit a body image your body can't do is internalised fatphobia. Noticing that nearly no one was fat in 1920, but something like half of us are now, is probably fatphobic. I think accepting a modern diet of processed foods and sugar water drinks is not fatphobic, but suggesting weight loss diets or methods is

What OOP didn't know is that he was getting worse than obese, he was putting on visceral fat which doesn't show much.

Being fat isn't intrinsically unhealthy, but it's pretty hard to be healthy and obese. It's pretty hard to be healthy on a diet of packaged foods and factory made drinks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I completely disagree. He was making no comments about obesity being morally or socially wrong. He was simply saying it is his personal preference to not be fat, he prefers to be thin.

If that is fat phobic then me saying I don’t want to have sex with other men is homophobic.

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