Europe
Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
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1. No Bigotry or Hate Speech
Any forms of Homophobia, Transphobia, Queerphobia, Racism, or Ableism will be met with swift and harsh action and will not be tolerated here whatsoever. Bigots will be banned immediately on-sight. This includes apologia of it.
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Y'all carb-opinionated people get down on a big powwow and decide what's what, then please let me know kindly.
It's very very simple: vegetables have carbs, you need vegetables (only way to get fibre, which is very important to gut health), thus the idea that carbs are bad is complete and utter lunacy. Even obligate carnivores will eat plant matter from time to time.
In general if someone tries to tell you a nutrient is objectively bad and can never be good or even acceptable, they're delusional and/or trying to sell you something.
Sugar is the nutrient that is closest to being Bad, but there's still nuance because it's only bad if you eat large amounts of it and don't burn the calories. People doing the Tour De France will literally suck on bags of sugar gel because they need pure energy that goes directly into their bloodstream.
Ok, let's get into my social circle lunacy: one of my neighbors easily weighted like two grown men. Then he claims that through eating a protein-only diet, he halved that (one grown man weight unit).
He definitely looks much better, though I know people should eat their veggies, I can't argue that his approach towards getting skinnier is not working.
He'll eat a big boy's steak and then leave everything else: tatoes, veggies, rice, bread, etc. Ah, and he is still drinking coke (light, zero) as if it is the source of his lifeforce.
I'm still thinking that can't be healthy, but he does look healthier in comparison to morbidly obese.
sounds like they're just eating less, which.. yeah that do be how to lose weight.
he's probably not having much fun on the toilet though, unless he's also taking fibre supplements.
but yeah it's not a good idea, you should be really really really careful about diets that have you eating the same thing often. Diversity in your diet is very important to make sure you get all the nutrients you need and in sensible amounts, as well as avoiding eating too much of any one thing which might cause problems.
The only thing unhealthy in your neighbors diet is the sugar substitute in the coke zero. If he reduced his obesity down to a normal weight, his life has massively improved.
This is the party line, but its actually up for debate because the actual scientific literature doesn't have evidence that this is necessary.
Carnivores (which it sounds like your neighbor is) tend to be very data focused, ask if he would share his health metrics with you (lipid panel, hba1c, etc)... When you look at those metrics you will have to decide what "healthy" means (what outcomes you care about)
Yep, he does use an app and all that jazz.