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The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
"A bad diet kills more people globally than tobacco," reports Bloomberg, citing a new study
funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published Wednesday in Lancet. The study argues that poor diets led to 11 million deaths in 2017 -- and that more than half of them were caused by just three main dietary factors: low consumption of whole grains, low consumption of fruits, and high intake of sodium.
In fact, bad diets are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause, the researchers concluded. "We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally."
In fact, bad diets are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause, the researchers concluded. "We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally."
If you eat "whole grains", the body just sees a bunch of sugar.
If you eat "fruits", the body just sees a bunch of sugar—the worst kind, in fact: fructose.
Modern Humans didn't evolve on a diet of whole grains or fruits; they at meat and fat. Fat (oil) is the natural energy source for the body, with sugar being a sometime alternative, or required in only very small amounts in the form of glucose (which can be derived from meat protein via gluconeogenesis).
Meat. Fat. Water. Minerals (including salt).
That's the proper diet. The Powers that Be are trying to kill you, and they're trying to prop up existing government-subsidized industries.
It's just a correlation, and on top of that, the numbers are distorted by amount of medical care.
I really doubt that high sodium is the biggest killer, for example.
whaaaa?
The coming resource wars are not going to be pretty, billions will die. But thats a good thing.
Face it America: You dont even have universal healthcare. You're one of the bloated nations which will suffer greatly.
$1 Stores in America sell more food than grocery stores.
Thats a failed nation son.
Bad diets are the world's leading cause of pleasure.
"...11 million deaths in 2017 -- and that more than half of them were caused by just three main dietary factors: low consumption of whole grains..."
"Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad"
I'll add that you should be eating fewer meals a day, too.
Digestion is a dirty, industrial process. You want there to be ample time for your body build up and then tear down that process, and clear away the inflammatory byproducts; at night, when you're sleeping, you want your body putting energy into rebuilding, not digesting.
So, eat at most 2 meals a day, mostly in the middle of the day (e.g., a late lunch and/or and early dinner), and then fast until meal-time the next day; if you're powering yourself by fat rather than by sugar (and thereby keeping your insulin levels relatively low), you'll find that you're never really hungry, anyway.
That's what makes sense for a human: Eating basic food that is readily available in animals, and not being hungry the rest of the time.
As subject.
Veganism kills too.
When the global famine hits:
* America's sick and poor will just die in the gutter, leaving behind the hardiest, most genetically diverse, smartest, most entrepreneurial race of men the world has ever known: The Master Race, if you will.
* The rest of you will have squandered your resources keeping the inbred and 3rd-world dregs alive.
Too much salt?? When even the 'worst' salt studies suggest it's only bad for those who already have high blood pressure; and theres no evidence it actually CAUSES high BP.
Need MORE?!?! Wheat? WTF
Red meat is bad? again falsehood nutritionally, maybe processed foods but show me the long term 5000+ person studies.
I lived 40 years eating 80%+ carbs(potato/wheat mostly), was lowest end of obese scale, blood pressure starting to go up a bit 130/90.. Little over a year ago changed my diet to no carb(lessthan 25g day), mostly bacon, beef, cheese, nutts lost ~55lb(technically 10lb above the health weight) but I seem to be stable there eating as much as I want.. Everything has improved. 115/75 BP, skin conditions and even varicose veins disappeared, more energy.. I'm thinking of keeping this diet for life now; would seem to be foolish FOR *ME! not to. European ancestry(might be relevant, as we evolved eating more meat/fat in the cold climate).
The correct answer is time. Doesn't matter what you eat, you're not going to escape it...
I mean -- even if I happily accept that a poor diet is the leading cause of premature death? They claim that low consumption of fruits is one of the major problems. One of the first things I hear from dieticians trying to solve obesity problems is to curb one's intake of fruit juices, because they contain so much natural sugar and calories.
I'm sure the fruits themselves are better for you than drinking fruit juice ... but even so? What part of a balanced diet is so contingent on eating fruit? It seems to me you could get most of the same vitamin and mineral benefits from a good selection of vegetables - not to mention all the "vitamin fortified" products out there like our cereals.
You realize your reply is a straw man, right? Of course you don't.
Useless eaters, as called by the western nations.
No, pretty sure that they don't disagree. They haven't even read the study.
The leading cause of death due to diet is malnutrition
1 in every 6 people on Earth don’t get enough food to live a healthy life. 36 million/yr people will die of hunger!
http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/global_hunger_statistics/how_many_people_die_from_hunger_each_year
Keep thinking about it.
Another thing to watch for when talking about diets, and one fellow here mentioned it, is consider what your ancestors ate. If your ancestors had a diet high in animal proteins and fats then it's likely you will survive well on the same. If your diet was mostly squash, maize and wild grains then you'll likely do well on those instead of rich amounts of animal proteins and fat. But in any case there is no single item that you can point to and say, this is bad for your diet because genetic diversity is going to produce random individuals that will live on despite consuming large amounts of some things that would more quickly kill others.
Watch your own diet, in your own context. Keep in touch with how your own body reacts to what you are doing and you'll find your own dietary sweet spot.
You must have been the captain of the debate team.
I've left comments here that show that I've found out that APK has administrative privileges on /.
My comments " disappear"
Is APK an editor or what
Remember kids, if you eat properly you will live forever.
>"more than half of them were caused by just three main dietary factors: low consumption of whole grains, low consumption of fruits, and high intake of sodium."
Interesting. Because from everything I have learned, those would not be the main three, especially as presented. I would say my top 5 issues, at least with the typical American diet, would be:
1) High consumption of simple carbohydrates (especially sugar)
2) High consumption of fried and overly processed foods
3) Low consumption of whole grains and fiber-rich foods
4) Low consumption of a variety of fresh vegetables
5) Over-consumption, in general (too many calories)
Fruit can be a good part of a varied diet (if in moderation, and WHOLE, not processed, and certainly not juice) but that wouldn't even make my "most important" list. Nor would sodium.
I have a hard time believing that smoking a pack-a-day is less bad than having white bread every day, even white bread with a McPatty on it. I think they said that bad diet kills more people than smoking, which might be true, but for an individual I'm pretty sure tobacco smoke is worse.
Do you think the food lobby & an army of malnourished nerds aren't going to stand around idly while some privileged billionaire criticises their life choices? Time to shoot the messenger. Feelings don't care about your facts, Mr Gates!
You really seem to like the word faggot. Hmmm, interesting.
Potatoes and milk. Potatoes have everything except vit. D & E I think, and milk has those, potatoes have everything else.
everyone eats, not everyone smokes.
Unless diet is waaaaay more powerful than previously studied:
We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally.
Should be:
We found that improvement of diet could potentially DEFER one in every five deaths globally.
Most people would rather have a limb amputated rather than exercise regularly, just like most people won't keep track of what they eat or how many calories it is because if they knew how bad they were screwiing up they'd feel guilty for eating all that shitty food -- and they'd rather stay in denial so they can keep eating things they like, and screw what happens to them later. Broken cookies have no calories, LOL! Then add food companies and fast food into the mix and you get people addicted to cheap shitty unhealthy food that is designed to be addictive so you buy more and more of it, and healthy food in comparison tastes like shit to them because it's not full of sugar and fat.
[the gluttonous, sedentary Qzzpjs gingerly brushes the Fritos crumbs from his protruding belly, licks the Doritos Xtreme Nacho dust from his fingers, logs in to Slashdot and posts] only thing cutting MY life short is father time his own self.
when they're not working 50+ hours a week and taking care of kids the remaining hours.
As a people we're massively overworked. We use soda & junk food for the quick bursts of energy needed to get through the day. This has been and is getting worse because while food is widely available good paying jobs are not.
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to lose it. That's because your body creates fat cells when you gain weight but does not destroy them when you lose it, they just shrink.
So a few high stress years (say when your kids are born and both you and the wife work full time because one income hasn't been enough to afford a family since before Reagan was president) and you've just permanently made it harder to stay fit.
Add in the health problems that come with getting older (worse sleep being the big one) and you just can't burn as many calories as you used to, making it harder to keep the weight off.
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You can't subvert the government of USA under the premise that Noah saved all the animals by bringing 2.0 on a boat when he was 500 years old and the premise that the Law is from Moses when he heard a burning bush talking to him that didn't burn.
Wake everybody up its Jew or You.
The Internet said it's superior in every way. What could go wrong?
Next week it'll go back to Climate Change.
And concern about Climate Change.
And concern about people denying Climate Change.
Also, MCTs are probably the most easily digested form of stored energy, which is why they are a popular addition to coffee.
Fiber is rough on the delicate digestive tract; in contrast, fat induces the production of bile, which coats and protects the digestive tract.
Fats do not result in an increase in blood sugar; they also produce a really small bump in insulin levels as a result. That is key to good health: Keeping insulin levels relatively low and consistent. Fat and sugar are not the same thing; fat is not merely another way to store sugar. This idea that sugar is the main fuel and that fat is some secondary system is nonsense; the main fuel is fat, and sugar is meant for specialized uses in addition to being a secondary fuel in the absence of a good source of dietary fat.
Your body has 2 energy paths, one for sugar and one for fat, and they actually don't play together that well; if you want to be and feel healthy, then you need to switch your metabolism to fat.
Great, no more dying! How do they do that exactly?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Somebody is making a Universal claim; he's offering a counter example.
A consistently high level of insulin due to regular spikes from a sugar-based diet eventually make it difficult for your body to access fat reserves or to process dietary fat ("insulin resistance"). The sugar pathways also result in greater degrees of inflammation. The result is that under a long-term sugar-based diet, the body sends improper hunger signals when blood sugar drops, rather than just accessing fat to smooth things out, and so people are always peckish and always feeling like crap. Being hungry and grumpy all the time is not an evolutionary advantage; it's an illness.
The only purpose of this article is to divert attention from the obvious: smoking kills. The number of comments regarding diet proves it worked.
Ever seen an entire hospital wing dedicated to lung patients? And what percentage of those patients do you think are smokers?
The only reason smoking is still not banned in most countries is due to the amount of bribes politicians receive. And fake articles like this one that keep the piblic busy with lies.
The people who live the longest on Earth live in what are called Blue Zones. They eat diets consisting mostly of plants with a small amount of animal products (less than 10% of total calories). These diets are also rich in beans and legumes, lower in calories, high in whole foods, and yes, lower in sugar.
They also don't smoke, get daily exercise and have rich social lives.
But, hey, if you want to eat bacon cheeseburgers without the bun for every meal... more power to you.
What I said.
Once a friend pointed out that nutritionists had just said that coffee is bad for you, again. On even years they find that coffee is good for you.
Smoking? Bad
Fat, nitrates and sugar? Bad
Which is worse? Why bother
The leading cause of death is being born.
Everyone is going to die, may as well enjoy your time alive as even the best diet isn't going to change the fact that you're on a clock.
He played bassoon in High School.
As a religious friend often reminds me.
Lack of Oxygen to the brain is the number one killer.
Animals are being selectively bred to be BIG. FAST. Pump 'em full of hormones to grow faster, antibiotics to keep them from rotting alive. Then send them to China for processing where they're punctured hundreds of times (pushing pathogens deep into the meat where they'll survive anything below well-done) to allow them to absorb and retain a water/chemical bath so they weigh more. That's the non-nightmarish version, I'm too close to my next meal to get into the good stuff.
Meat was better for my ancestors but I'll eat grains and beans and take my chances.
Maybe we can talk about mental health among Americans.
https://www.trtworld.com/life/suicide-leading-cause-of-death-among-white-males-in-us-25597
Ah, I see the problem with having this discussion. You see for the first time in a very long time we see a reduction in the expected lifespans of Americans but since this affects those "bad" white middle aged males then we simply don't care. Oh, and suicides among veterans isn't all that great either.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/435220-suicide-is-not-just-a-veteran-problem-it-is-an-american-problem
Fuck them veterans, right! What did they do for us? Oh, that's right they only keep us safe from terrorism. Too bad that they are more of a risk to themselves now more than ISIL. I guess that's what happens when there are so few of the enemy left.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/12/29/suicide-kills-more-us-troops-than-isil-middle-east/95961038/
I guess this is what happens when there is a minority in America that is hated like no other.
Lots of anecdotal stories about the Gates foundation seeming to inject people in Africa with mystery pharmaceuticals in the guise of vaccines and malaria treatment. Hard to really judge without firsthand knowledge, and especially because the theory as to motive is that the Gates foundation is a front for Eugenics.
But this dietary advice is diametrically opposite what the overwhelming weight of modern research... independent modern research not paid for by food companies that is... suggests
Whole grains are metabolically little different from processed refined grains. "Whole grain" is one of the most misleading pieces of dietary propaganda there is, probably topping "2% milk" and "natural flavor" in terms of harm it has caused society. Modern genetically hybridized wheat contains a witches brew of genes from other plants - producing proteins that our bodies have not evolved to digest. Celiac disease is just the tip of the iceberg, a great deal of research suggests that Wheat Germ Agglutin, Gluten, and many other substances found in wheat promote belly fat, leaky gut, obesity, arthritis, diabetes and death.
Books such as Wheat Belly and The Plant Paradox suggest that Whole grain bread raises blood sugar more than even refined white sugar, promoting insulin resistance. "Fruit" is also, unfortunately, not so good for you. Bananas and oranges, unless consumed in extreme moderation, promote the growth of harmful yeasts and gut dysbiosis (See "Clean" by A. Junger). Most fruit has been bred to produce sugar levels far in excess of those found in the while. Apparently the sweet taste alone can promote weight gain and obesity, as in evolutionary history fresh fruit was only available once a year, and so the body is keyed to gorge on it and store fat for the winter. No doubt some pencil neck keyboard warrior will try to debunk this with his PhD from Google University -- Big Food, incorporated has done everything it can to attack these results, but there's a curious phenomenon of those who have gone gluten and grain free and have had the bulk of their health problems disappear.
Others have a modified version of Stockholm syndrome -- the inability to believe that the mainstream authorities are not only systematically wrong, but have clear financial incentives to maintain the deception. It is hard to swallow just how monstrous is the state of food and our bodies in the developed western world.
The only healthy diet is one that is high in vegetables. Many of these keto diets and advocates are essentially straw men in the debate as they advocate absurd levels of protein intake that shifts the focus away from the danger of grain to the benefit of high protein consumption.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...
Basically Mediterranean diet was bunk all along.
Diet is a lot like religion. People believe in it because it gives them comfort to believe they can control what happens to them just by making different choices of what to eat. It probably makes no difference whatsoever what you get calories from. For every theory there is conflicting evidence.
Every time we are certain we understand the perfect diet we find out we were very very wrong. All we know for sure is that if you stop eating you will die, but as for what type of food is 'healthier' or 'better' in some way we still don't really know and it is not hard to see why.
Just look at the posts here. Everyone has a different theory and they are 100% certain that if they just eat a certain way they will have a better, happier, longer life. Just like believing in the right supernatural entity. Paul Theroux wrote about this in his novel Millroy the Magician.
Nothing has changed. People don't want to be powerless. They long for power and pretending that they have power just from what they choose to put in their gob is very reassuring even though there is little to no basis for the warm and fuzzy virtuous feeling they get from 'eating right'. We are omnivores. We evolved over thousands of years eating whatever we could find. Lots of people live long and healthy lives eating whatever tastes good or whatever they can afford without worshipping any particular diet guru.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
In the Hopi language, vegetarian means bad hunter.
As a result of their bad choices, I get more bacon.
Fish was the original meat. Didn't have to chase after them like animals. There was a nearly endless supply of them from the sea. Living near a body of water was essential for civilization before well water became possible, so fish were always nearby.
People are free to poison themselves. That's why a free country can NEVER implement a "universal" health care system.
Americans want freedom more than security; the Unamericans (some of whom are US citizens) just don't understand this.
in the form of rice. Reducing "Carb Intake" works for Americans because it forces us to stop eating cake, cookies, drinking soda, etc. The quality of the protein isn't what makes atkins work. I knew a dirt poor guy who got buff eating potted meat (if you're trying to put on muscle you need meat, and if you're poor that stuff is cheap since it's basically sanitized dog food).
What's needed to keep weight off is less stress or more stress. The Japanese do it with a fuck ton of social pressure. Look up some articles on how they stay thin. Being fat gets you a ton of shit in Japan. Not the mild fat shaming we do here but actual social pressure.
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No diet is much worse than a bad diet. Many people in the world die of starvation. Maybe this advice works for rich yuppies like Bloomberg and Gates.
Scientists found evidence that a vegetarian diet has led to a mutation that may make people more susceptible to inflammation, and by association, increased risk of heart disease and colon cancer.
https://indianexpress.com/arti...
Casteism
> Most people eat to much sodium ... and it is a main cause for high blood pressure.
Last year I was diagnosed with chronic hypertension, and put on a low-sodium diet.
Once I started paying attention to how much salt is in everything, it blew me away! My limit is supposed to be 1500mg per day; one of my favorite restaurants had dishes with over 3000mg in a single meal! It's extraordinarily difficult to avoid sodium if you eat out a lot.
My doctor recommended the DASH diet - "dietary approaches to stop hypertension." But it's a very good diet for anyone, even if you have normal blood pressure. :)