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  • howrar@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzBroccoli Blooms
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    15 hours ago

    Raw, it’s a little spicy, similar to radishes. Boiled, it’s very sweet. It can take the place of carrots and turnips in soups.

    The simplest preparation that’ll give you an idea of how the ingredients tastes on its own: cut into thin slices and boil in water with a bit of salt and msg (I personally like to use chicken stock).

    The outer layer is very tough and fibrous, so make sure to get rid of that first. Depending on the quality of the bulb, you might also end up with one that’s fibrous throughout. Those are not pleasant to eat, and if you happen to get one of those, I assure you that it’s not a typical experience.








  • To be clear, I don’t object to the message of the ketogenic diet being an effective solution for many problems, but I do object to presenting it as the one and only (or ideal) solution to everything. It’s not clear if you intended for that. A literal reading of your top level comment conveys nothing of this sort, but if I give it a reading while pretending not to be autistic, I pick up on the implication that anyone who snores is fat. I think the responses you’ve gotten confirm this interpretation.

    It’s basically the difference between “Being fat causes snoring. Here’s how to reduce body fat.” vs “Being fat can cause snoring. If that happens to apply to you, here is what I believe to be the best solution.”

    I’m also not a fan of prescribing keto as a first resort because it’s a huge lifestyle change for most people. The point of being healthy is to allow you to enjoy life to its fullest. If the lifestyle that the diet requires doesn’t allow for that, then it’s pointless.

    As far as the mechanism of action of why carbohydrates are driving ectopic fat please read - The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity - Beyond “Calories In, Calories Out” - 2018

    The “access through your institution” button appears to be broken right now. Based on the abstract, it looks to be more about glycemic load than ketosis. So their findings likely also apply to the ketogenic diet, but I see no reason to believe it to be necessary.

    Your not asking people to justify with references the “snoring is normal and healthy” vibe that is upvoted here. I think that speaks to the poor metabolic health we have come to accept in society

    I don’t think anyone is normalizing poor metabolic health. I’m certainly not. What I do question is the attribution of poor metabolic health to carbs alone, and all carbs on top of that. From what I know, just about everything in the body interacts with everything else, so while that means changing one thing (like reducing carb intake) can fix a lot of things, it is highly unlikely that the blame can be placed on any single thing. There are many ways to improve your health.

    It also happens to fit my mental model of how things work, and I really don’t have the time or energy to read something that just reconfirms my beliefs. I’m also not that interested in snoring, but I am interested in reading about nutrition. You also said it yourself: “[snoring is] not a major health concern (sleep apnea is)”

    To be fair, your statement was very general

    Fair. I did allude to all the other times you’ve brought this up. I should’ve been clearer.


  • That’s a nice list. Saving it for later reading.

    But for the purposes of the discussion in this thread, I’m looking for sources that point towards ectopic fat being the main culprit of snoring to tie in with what looks like evidence towards low carb diets being a (not the) solution to getting rid of ectopic fat. If that’s in the list you provided, I’d appreciate if you can point it out. It’s not really reasonable to expect someone to dig through all of that.





  • howrar@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCutting sucks
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    6 days ago

    halve the rice and triple the broccoli

    Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you’re doing chicken broccoli rice, it’s probably because it’s much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.





  • Except this isn’t how language works

    Language serves to communicate. If most people who know nothing of the subject read your question and understand “X is true” from it, then that is what you’re communicating. Of course, I have no way of actually providing evidence for this besides anecdotes since I don’t have the means to actually run a study on it. But if you’ve had enough human interactions, you’ll have seen a lot of these types of questions where people will genuinely try to answer them as if they’re true, or point to such questions as evidence for something being true. You’ll also often see this for personal attacks (e.g. “Why are you such a doofus?”).

    This is probably an area where LLMs can actually be useful since they hold a lot of information on something of an average of what most people think. Give it a sentence and ask how it might be interpreted by others.

    People aren’t robots

    Yes, and? Humans are meat bags. It costs a lot of energy for meat bags to think, and humans tend to be very energy efficient. If you can get away with doing less thinking, then most people will. This is something I’m constantly being made aware of because my particular brand of autism doesn’t allow me to take advantage of this efficiency, which is what makes it so debilitating.

    If you have some familiarity with information theory, it might be more convincing to think about it through that lens and consider how certain interpretations / assumptions lead to higher efficiency.

    you’re continuously asserting my claim is false

    If I did, I did not mean to. I don’t interact with enough neurotypical people to say whether it’s true or not. I think you can just replace “since” with “if” in my previous comment to correct for this.