More like low carb and high fat diet (good fats like olive oil, nuts and fatty fish) are associated with lower heart disease plus it reverses type 2 diabetes in some, but they will figure it out, eventually. Yeah, my wife and I are living proof.
A side note: About half the population, depending on their ancestry, does quit well on a higher carb diet,You’re not gonna trick me out of an early death via heart attack.
What a title…… what do I eat now?!
what do I eat now?!
Fiber.
Specifically leafy greens and legumes.
Same answer it’s always been.
Eat a bunch of that, even if you don’t want to. And then you can literally eat all you want of anything else. You just won’t want to eat much of anything else, because it takes forever to digest legumes and leafy greens.
The “problem” is that stuff is cheap as fuck and there’s no way for anyone to make any money off telling people to do that
Aren’t oats supposed to be pretty good too? Although they are fairly high in carbs. Far cheaper than legumes, can get a kg of dry oats for about £0.50 while a similar amount of chickpeas is around 4 times that price.
Problem is if I simmer some oats in water and a pinch of salt then add some fruit my partner says it isn’t a proper dinner.
Yeah, leafy greens and legumes are good because there’s a bunch of extra vitamins.
Oatmeal (especially fortified) has a bunch of other stuff tho.
Like, don’t literally only eat a few things. Anything high in fiber keeps you full for a long time.
Especially for the dudes, eating fiber is a very easy preventative measure for colo-rectal cancer. And it’s hard to look at the correlation between modern low fiber high processed food diets and the skyrocketing rates of colo-rectal cancer and say there’s zero correlation.
But convincing people to eat fiber gets a weird amount of opposition
I usually get rolled oats. Not sure if oatmeal is an American thing, I don’t think it’s common here? I have never heard of it anyway.
Here you usually get plain rolled oats or ultra processed instant porridge in various forms of packaging.
Oats are very much a thing in the US. Quite common. Stores sell rolled oats, steel cut oats and sugary packaged oats. The trick is buying the rolled/steel cut and not the packaged sugar garbage.
Oats are almost pure carbs.
greek yogurt mixed with uncooked oats is good. it’s chewy. and the carbs in the oats helps to feed the probiotics in the yogurt–good for gut health
My eyes are bad and I read that cats are pretty good. And I surmised that they are high in carbs. because of what the mice they caught had eaten.
Turn your eyes off and back on again to perform a factory reset
I have a cup of green lentils for breakfast and another one for lunch. Huge fan.
Are you joking?
How do you prep this?
I really, really struggle to decide what to eat. I think it’s a neurodivergence thing. I’ve often wished there was some bullshit soylent kind of thing I could consume instead of food.
I wish bachelor chow from Futurama was real
How long does your 1 lentil for lunch keep you full for?
Legumes aren’t low carb no one can afford to eat enough leafy greens to meet their caloric intake for the day
Do you think it’s normal to eat one item exclusively all day every day?
I agree - it was a terrible suggestion…
nuts are good too (not peanuts, for me), but expensive AF
What is wrong with peanuts? And yeah so expensive. Also high energy density means I find it easy to eat far too many kcal when snacking on cashews.
i should have said “for me,” edited. i’m not deathly allergic, but enough to get a reaction in my mouth and wreck my gut. wish i wasn’t, because i love them
Ahh, that makes more sense
Talk about word salad. Pun intended. A better title might have been something like “Low-carb and low-fat diets associated with lower heart disease risk in certain cases” and let the reader figure it out.
vegetables
All meat or all vegetables, nothing in between
Plain canned tuna
high-quality, plant-based foods, low in animal products
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plant-based sources of proteins and fats were associated with about a 15% lower risk of CHD
Delicious mercury
solid yellowfin packed in EVOO topped with tony chachere’s creole seasoning = better than anything you’ll get for $15 at a burger joint
The tuna in EVOO you buy at the supermarket here is lame. If you look at the ingredients it’s just cheap vegetable oil with a dash of EVOO, and you can bet it’s not the good EVOO.
i mean i wouldn’t debate about “not the good EVOO,” but…
edit: looking at your instance now, i guess you’re in aus? that sucks they’re mixing yours with bullshit oil
this is ours:
you’re right, it’s bullshit marketing and it sucks. The front of the tin does say “tuna in olive oil blend”, in fairness. All the other brands are the same / similar.
If it was real, pure olive oil it would cost more.
I just buy the stuff packed in spring water, drain it, and pour olive oil over it.
Unless it says extra virgin olive oil, the olive oil itself might even be highly processed.
To be designated as extra-virgin, no heat or chemicals can be used during the extraction process or at any other stage of getting it into the bottle
Yeah, there’s a lot to good EVOO.
Here i wouldnt really trust anything I can get from the supermarket, and certainly not anything imported.
The health benefits diminish significantly over time.
So the “best before” date might be 2 years, but if you want the health benefits then every month counts. Also the time spent in contact with air.
I just buy the stuff packed in spring water, drain it, and pour olive oil over it.
the best way to do it, since even if you drain the oil tuna, you’ll still be consuming a non-zero amount of crap ultraprocessed shit oil
I mean yeah, but most people will find a low-carb low-fat diet to be very unfulfilling and even depressing in a fairly short period of time.
I suspect most people could easily do it for a week or so with the right support, but as a long term health intervention I’d say 1 in 100 people can adhere to this kind of regime.
