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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • normal human things like consuming things in excess.

    Excess and normal are contradicting each other in this sentence.

    Yes cellular metabolism can use glucose, but that glucose in humans does not need to be eaten in the form of carbohydrates, the body is perfectly able to make its own glucose via gluconeogenesis

    Fats need to be balanced.

    What does this mean?

    Vitamin C is also lacking in an all meat diet devoid of organ meats.

    Vitamin C is in meat in small amounts, but if one is eating only meat then there is not glut4 competition and that vitamin c is very effective.










  • I’ve enjoyed reading this discussion. I would like to contribute that the most significant factor in excessive obesity isn’t a typically a nutrient deficiency, or even a moral failing in CICO - it’s carbohydrate addiction.

    Yes, hunger can be driven by low-levels of essential nutrition, pica during pregnancy is a great example of that. Many people are over-fed and under-nourished, so when they get hungry they continue to go to their deficient food source (probably something carbohydrate heavy).


  • What I’m looking for basically is just evidence for the claim posted above us, specifically that “it is a fact that weight loss results in lifelong ravenous hunger due to fat cell signaling”

    In my reading the the literature there is nothing to support this “fat cells make you hungry” theory.

    At best there is an association between fat people and fat cell population, but given hyperplasia is more common in people of european descent its not a causal connection. Plus this theory doesn’t account for fat people from hypertrophic populations (asians).


  • empty/depleted fat cells basically scream “we are hungry”, so as soon as you get off Ozempic, you basically can’t stop eating until you regained at least the former state.

    I don’t think that is quite right. If people on Ozempic use the opportunity to adapt to a low carbohydrate diet, when they come off the drugs they won’t be suffering from the save sugar craving addiction cycle.

    Fat cells don’t scream “we are hungry” they scream “we are full” that is what leptin signaling is for, but carbohydrate addiction is a much stronger signal for many people.









  • Watch Spokane Police arrest two vegan protesters outside a restaurant during a heated demonstration on March 6th 2025. Officers charge them with disorderly conduct, referencing a prior restaurant disruption. The activists argue they were peacefully protesting animal abuse and accuse the police of siding with cruelty.

    Heated is a bit of a stretch looks like the street was empty, they were shouting at diners through the restaurant windows.

    That’s the big difference between being unreasonable at people online vs in real life.

    Normal people minding their own business just want to be left alone, and they will leave you alone. You break that social contract and things happen.

    Online people make a real tempest in a teacup about small things, and due to algorithmic the echo chambers builds.

    My experiences on Lemmy almost never match how people act in my real life.