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AnimalsDream
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Yeah, tough call. It’s all just fucked.
Lol, nobody is eating candy for the calcium, and there are better sources.
It’s less macabre than that.
“Ferdman found that one single McDonald’s patty can contain the meat of up to a shocking 100 cows.”
2·14 hours agoRight, and I’m just saying why expend so much energy on a Gordian knot, when there’s a much more effective, reasonable way to cut right through it? The puzzle is essentially saying, “how can I do a thing that is like the thing I’m trying to avoid doing.” Just do the thing! 😅
8·14 hours ago“I am heartbroken.”
Omg what happened, why are you heartbroken?
ADHD person here. Been making an effort lately to use less parenthesis. A thing I quickly found is that many of them can be replaced with a comma just fine. Or, just like, taking the extra two seconds to turn one run-on sentence into two. (But then again turning my comments into puzzles is fun).
It is so disturbing that so many companies have been macabre enough to slip powdered bones into a product marketed at children.
I dropped authoritative sources, and you’re just spouting conspiracy theories. Reality isn’t whatever you want it to be.
104·16 hours agoNo, it is not being debunked. People are just being fooled by the constant onslaught of industry-backed disinformation. The role of high saturated fat to unsaturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease is one of the most thoroughly tested areas of nutritional health, and the consensus from real experts is that saturated fat intake absolutely progresses cvd.
https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-smart/fats/saturated-fats
"There’s a lot of conflicting information about saturated fats. Should I eat them or not?
The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fats to less than 6% of total calories. Saturated fats are found in butter, cheese, red meat, other animal-based foods and tropical oils. Decades science has proven that saturated fats can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease.
The more important thing to remember is the overall dietary pattern. Saturated fats are just one piece of the puzzle. Eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains is a way to achieve an overall healthy eating pattern.
When you hear about the latest “diet of the day” or a new or odd-sounding theory about food, consider the source. The American Heart Association makes dietary recommendations only after carefully considering the latest scientific evidence."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-about-fats-bad-and-good
(…) “Is saturated fat bad for you? A diet rich in saturated fats can drive up total cholesterol, and tip the balance toward more harmful LDL cholesterol, which prompts blockages to form in arteries in the heart and elsewhere in the body. For that reason, most nutrition experts recommend limiting saturated fat to under 10% of calories a day.”
(…) “Eating polyunsaturated fats in place of saturated fats or highly refined carbohydrates reduces harmful LDL cholesterol and improves the cholesterol profile. It also lowers triglycerides.”
And I’m choosing to focus on meta-analyses here to highlight the sheer volume of studies that have, and continue to be done on this subject.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39523824/
“Results: Fourteen studies were included in the systematic review and seven in the meta-analysis. Our results showed an association between OO consumption and reduction in all-cause mortality (HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.80-0.91), cardiovascular mortality (HR: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.76-0.93) and cancer mortality (HR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.86-0.93). Conclusions: Consumption of OO particularly reduces cardiovascular mortality (16%), followed by all-cause mortality (15%) and cancer mortality (11%) in the adult population. However, further studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanisms.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30006369/
“Fifty-four trials were included in the NMA. Safflower oil had the highest SUCRA value for LDL-C (82%) and TC (90%), followed by rapeseed oil (76% for LDL-C, 85% for TC); whereas, palm oil (74%) had the highest SUCRA value for TG, and coconut oil (88%) for HDL-C. Safflower, sunflower, rapeseed, flaxseed, corn, olive, soybean, palm, and coconut oil as well beef fat were more effective in reducing LDL-C (-0.42 to -0.23 mmol/l) as compared with butter. Despite limitations in these data, our NMA findings are in line with existing evidence on the metabolic effects of fat and support current recommendations to replace high saturated-fat food with unsaturated oils.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27434027/
“This meta-analysis of randomised controlled feeding trials provides evidence that dietary macronutrients have diverse effects on glucose-insulin homeostasis. In comparison to carbohydrate, SFA, or MUFA, most consistent favourable effects were seen with PUFA, which was linked to improved glycaemia, insulin resistance, and insulin secretion capacity.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35866510/
“The results of this review suggest that CO consumptionhas beneficial effects on LDL-c, TC, and LDL-c/HDL-c ratio compared to OO. Therefore, its replacement with OO can have cardioprotective impacts.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37968628/
“Our findings indicate that a shift from animal-based (e.g., red and processed meat, eggs, dairy, poultry, butter) to plant-based (e.g., nuts, legumes, whole grains, olive oil) foods is beneficially associated with cardiometabolic health and all-cause mortality.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36343558/
“Prospective studies supported a beneficial association of olive oil consumption with CVD, T2D and all-cause mortality, but they did not show any association with cancer risk.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32428300/
“The findings of this updated review suggest that reducing saturated fat intake for at least two years causes a potentially important reduction in combined cardiovascular events. Replacing the energy from saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat or carbohydrate appear to be useful strategies, while effects of replacement with monounsaturated fat are unclear. The reduction in combined cardiovascular events resulting from reducing saturated fat did not alter by study duration, sex or baseline level of cardiovascular risk, but greater reduction in saturated fat caused greater reductions in cardiovascular events.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25995283/
“Palm oil consumption results in higher LDL cholesterol than do vegetable oils low in saturated fat and higher HDL cholesterol than do trans fat-containing oils in humans. The effects of palm oil on blood lipids are as expected on the basis of its high saturated fat content, which supports the reduction in palm oil use by replacement with vegetable oils low in saturated and trans fat.”
ethically speaking, lard being derived from pigs makes it automatically wrong to use, as well as being a contributor to the environmental and zoonitic disease problems that are inherent in animal agriculture.
But even purely from a health standpoint, lard is absolutely not healthy. It’s extremely high in saturated fats making it one of the worst choices for anyone trying to manage their heart health.
And don’t even start with that seed oil pseudoscientific fad nonsense. That garbage is thoroughly debunked.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/choosing-heart-healthy-oils-for-home-cooking
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/scientists-debunk-seed-oil-health-risks/
https://www.producer.com/news/harvard-study-finds-seed-oils-healthier-than-butter/
If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.
Just be sure to scrutinize the ingredients in those refried beans. A lot of them contain lard.
Also, don’t forget to include as many dark leafy greens in those rice and beans, which will help a lot in lowering cholesterol.
Yeah I’ve debated with antinatalists who used that argument. It’s definitely an absurd stance on the face of it, though some aspects are worth considering. For example if you struggle significantly with cognitive disorders, and life is hell for you, you might want to ask yourself if it’s a good idea to bring someone in the world who very likely will experience a similar hell. And of course socioeconomic concerns matter too. I’ve only ever had entry-level jobs, and owning my own house kind of feels like a distant dream, so having children is practically infeasible. Plus the whole living in what’s shaping up to be an all out fascist dictatorship thing.
Those are all fair points and something I think about as well. You do you.
Agreed. It’s depressing that everyone who continues relying on animal products and exploitation have so many psychological barriers put up to even facing and contemplating the other animal atrocities openly. It becomes more heart-wrenching the more you think about it.
Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some perspective is important here. From the point of view of the average person, what a vegan might call the “carnist” worldview, there’s a cultural perception that being vegan is a kind of monolithic puritanical religion. As if to live a life without using animal products is comparable to the self-flagellations of the penitent Christian.
But it has to be recognized, that perception is a stereotype perpetuated from outside perspectives looking in. Inexperience vs experience.
In real life, there is constant disagreement and debate among vegans, so definitely not a monolith. With today’s food options (at least in western countries), there’s nothing puritanical or self-punishing about living a vegan lifestyle - to the point that “junkfood vegan” is a badge of pride from some. At the end of the day we’re just regular people, like everyone else. All we’ve done is decided that other animals should have basic universal rights, and then we try to live in accord with that.
It’s not perfection, it’s a moral baseline.
And it’s worth striving for that baseline, because reducetarianism doesn’t work.
It’s a little weird that anyone still thinks a joke that was overdone 30 years ago, would do anything other than make you sound unhinged today. “Tell me not to do a thing that causes suffering, will you? Well what if I cause even more suffering then?!”
I dunno, cartoon villain isn’t a good look in real life.