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This has already happened and is very interesting.
Famous last words...
I fail to see what a new protocol would bring to the equation. I see it more as a human behaviour issue, network effect, worse is better etc etc.
My grandma uses Facebook because someone taught her how, she doesn't have the capability to explore technology on her own. That honestly goes for most people, they treat their computer as necessary for getting along in modern society and nothing more.
Facebook is the internet.
I've recently made the jump and it seems to have stuck. This is at least the fifth time I've tried to switch over the last 20 years and it's the first time it even moderately feels like most things have just worked.
- Octoprint
- Grayjay/Futo
- Internet Archive
- Opensubtitles
- The Guardian
I used to donate to Wikipedia, but for various reasons switched that donation to IA.
I have seen some drinks shipped in plastic, so it is possible to do, I wonder if glass packaging is a 'premium' thing. Though, if they can do it for cheap beer, then I'm sure they can do it for non-alcoholic drinks on scale.
What I meant was that, for example in the OP article, a 60g bolus of carbs brings blood sugar from the bottom of healthy range all the way to the top of the healthy range in one go.
It just seems like an unnecessarily large and (for most) difficult to control jump in blood sugar. A lower-carb diet, say under 50g total carbs per day, should reduce blood sugar swings and increase their controllability, letting patients be in the healthy range of blood sugar for a higher percentage of the day.
As far as I underdstand it, if you don't eat carbohydrates, you don't require insulin to deal with the spikes, and apart from a few grams in the bloodstream, humans require extremely little to no exogenous carbs.
I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've looked into this already.
You say this like it's a bad thing...
Social interaction also seems to be key to healthy longevity, frailty can be a barrier to socialisation, as can be hearing loss.
However, your parents are their own people. You won't be able to force them to do anything they don't want to do, but you still need to love them even if they won't listen.
Hutt River has been a media curiosity for decades in Australia, Prince Leonard would get trotted out every couple of years on a slow news week. Sad to learn of his passing.
From what I can gather, infection with adenovirus-36 basically improves glycemic control... ostensibly a good thing? I couldn't find whether adenovirus-36 was a persistent infection, or whether it only affected patients for a short time, but then they failed to lose weight after the infection had cleared.
This author states that the reason for obesity is eating too much sugar and refined carbohydrates. Why is there a distinction between refined and unrefined carbohydrates? There's no explanation for this, it's treated as given. It's the same chemical makeup, all that changes is the glycemic index. In other words, it's the same poison, it just takes longer to absorb.
The linked study backs this up, but makes no sense from a glycemic load point of view. I notice that vegetables are lumped in one category. Potatoes are not the same as celery. As are fruits, yet blueberries and mangoes have a vastly different sugar content. To add insult to injury, this is a meta-analysis of observational studies, which are notoriously unreliable.
Let me back all this up with a different meta-analysis of interventional trials which treats all carbohydrates the same.
Ketogenic Diet Benefits to Weight Loss, Glycemic Control, and Lipid Profiles in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trails
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408028/
Thanks for the discussion :)
In my opinion, it's mostly the excess carbohydrates now compared to what we ate 100 years ago. Occam's razor and all that.
B12 is the big obvious one, but you should also check out vitamins K2 and A (beta-carotene is only converted by about 70% of people), as well as carnitine, zinc, iron and iodine.
Maybe if the body is adapted to use fat as the primary energy source from the get-go, it would not go looking for energy in such a seemingly strange place.
If you're situated more than 5km from the nearest town, car ownership is practically mandatory.
Modern high-intensity farming practices such as feedlots and cage chickens - where the majority of the feed is grain and harvested hay - are probably where the conflation enters. There is just as much a need to raise healthy, minimally carbon intensive animals as there is to reduce eating meat. There are farming methods to do this, but change is slow.