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[Hide] (129.4KB, 685x1000) Reverse I'm going to leave some braindroppings here and see if anyone wants to discuss further. I'm going to give my personal take on the rising obesity, skipping out on well discussed topics like HFCS and fast food.
There have been changes on the genetic level such as GMOs but even "normal" fruit are actually abnormal through decades of selective breeding to give larger and supposedly nicer fruit. In reality the amount of nutrients a tree can push through into the fruit has remained mostly the same and the fruits are bigger but on average have the same amount vitamins and other nutrients that aren't sugar or fibrous tissue. The density of nutrients has dropped. This means the ratio of nutrition to simply sugar has dropped.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm nih.gov/articles/PMC10969708/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250428212111/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10969708/
https://www.nationalgeographic com/magazine/article/fruits-and-vegetables-are-less-nutritious-than-they-used-to-be
https://web.archive.org/web/20250402020807/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/fruits-and-vegetables-are-less-nutritious-than-they-used-to-be
The brain and body work together with the gut bacteria to no just feed yourself but also send stimuli over what and how much you eat. Everyone talks about muh glucose slop but noone mentions the overall decline in quality of food and ever higher proportions of sugar to any actual nutrition that is badly needed by the lardasses you see waddling around. The subconscious brain will direct you to eat what you need. It's not a perfect system and there is one situation where it goes haywire - everything around is so spiked with sugar that eating more to get other macro and micro nutrients you need, causes you to eat way too much sugar and then have a host of problems starting with simply getting way too fat.
https://www.bbc.co uk/food/articles/nutritional_intelligence
https://web.archive.org/web/20250222143529/https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/nutritional_intelligence
Most would simply go for organic veggies and fruit but simply avoiding fast food and the like isn't enough. You'd need to adapt your diet to cut out potatoes/grain/grain-products and whatever other high energy food (sugar, not fat, why that is I might say in another post) you eat to compensate correctly - keeping the sugar/fat/protein you eat in balance with other nutrition since you now need to eat more fruit and veg. There's very little difference in starch and simple monosugars. Enzymes in your saliva will break down starches to very short chains (glucose is one "link" of a chain of a particular starch, sugar commonly found in European candy is 2-link chain of glucose and fructose) and the rest of your digestive tract will break it down further before it reaches the small intestine where it is absorbed. Any memes you see about "lasting energy" from starches in breakfast ((( cereal ))) is a meme unto itself because by all sugars are ready to hit your bloodstream by the time they get to a point where they can be absorbed into the body. This is why eating more "vitamin-rich superfoods" isn't enough, you'll be eating way more sugars as a result. I don't know of any studies but I'm sure there's a simple and clear link between reduction of nutrition by density of produce and people getting fat as their bodies subconsciously cry out for them to eat more to get those vitamins they inevitably up the calorie intake and blow up.
Healthy eating dead. Wat nou?
> I propose high-energy food like potatoes, rice & grain/grain-products are reduced to lower sugar intake
> Mindful eating overall, if you're going to be doing physical activity feel free to gorge, you'll be using all that energy anyway
> Eat all the eggs. You have to eat all the eggs.
> If you can't put the fork down, just find some good filler to feel full but not necessarily dump fat and sugar into yourself
> Try to find sources of food that will actually have the nutrition they should. Seasonal foods eaten during their season, not cheap greenhouse tomatoes for example, that will not have the same makeup as tomatoes grown properly with more that the bare minimum a hydroponics set up will usually use
> If at all possible, buy from people who have had trees on their yards/land that have been there for many years and grown from seeds of non-selectively bred slop machines used in ((( agriculture ))) at large
> If you are a landowner yourself, make sure you get keep that lineage of good food going and plant some trees/bushes for yourself, family & friends that will grow fruit and veg that is actually worth a damn