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> sleep is good, anxiety is bad.

Sleep is not all good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersomnia

Anxiety is not all bad: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/43757

Sattvic food is not good for your health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37085478/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35710164/

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But in general sleep is good and anxiety is bad and the studies you linked do not show, whether eating fruits in moderation is bad.

Both of those studies on foods consider only people who already have Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. One of them is about specifically sugary beverages, not whole fruit. Neither show “Sattvic food is not good for your health”.

> people who already have Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

That is 25% of US adults.

Fuits contain fructose (a poison) which is transformed to glucose by liver, because our bodies cannot use it directly. From this perspective, beverages that contain "high fructose corn syrup" like Coca Cola or many others are not distinguishable from fruits.

It’s about the ratio of glucose to fructose. More than 50% glucose seems ok. Most fruits have more glucose than fructose.

High corn fructose corn Sirup is used because it is cheap and fructose is 1.5 more sweet than glucose.

as with anything, the poison is in the dosage.

Not sure why the world finds this so hard to understand, but I think we have the same issue with politics. Everything seems to suffer from binaryism. everything is either good or bad, right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, us or them...

the world and life in general is full of shades of gray. its not 1's and 0's.

I think any reasonable interpretation of the comment you’re replying to is not “sleep is always good” but rather “sleep is good, on the whole”, which is absolutely true.

Both studies you linked indicate correlation not causation

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