[ExI] carbs

[William Flynn Wallace]

I very much doubt if there is any other animal that eats such a varied diet
as we do.  Bacteria and other gut guys like some of it, dislike some of it,
maybe even killed by some of it.  So we have the greatest variety of
microbes.  I do not think we will solve the problem of diets until we
understand the gut.  We know that we can create obese and skinny lab
animals by manipulating microbes.  We know that we can exchange blood
between two animals and change their eating habits.  I suspect we will
knock this out in ten to twenty years.  (I won't be here, but then I eat
what I want and have no problems of any kind with weight or food.)

My a1c went from 6.3 to 5.8 just by eating fewer desserts (actually I never
skip a dessert - I eat less of it or I pass on the second dessert - if I
have great sex I have three desserts, but the frequency of that has fallen
off quite a bit)

bill w



On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:11 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
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> On 23/04/2022 00:45, billW wrote:
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> >…According to Susie Bonds, an apparently well-known nutritionist, the
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> >…  So - eat a balanced diet.  How retro.   bill w
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> Billw, it is most remarkable how different and varied is heath and diet
> advice.  Clearly some or perhaps most of it is just nonsense: we see paid
> advertisement on news channels which guarantee that sucking a lemon with
> cinnamon powder and a glass of ice water at bedtime burns 20 pounds a
> month.  The point if the ad isn’t to help people lose weight or even sell
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> For reasons we still don’t understand, the digestive systems of humans
> varies waaaay more than a typical mammal species.  My best explanation is
> that technology enabled us to radiate all over the globe where digestive
> systems adapted to deal with whatever was available there.
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> End result: much health advice and perhaps most diet advice is unhelpful,
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