• Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    I like to think of highly processed foods as “partially pre-digested”. It’s too easy for your body to absorb which is why it leaves you feeling dissatisfied and hungry shortly after, and it still makes you fat.

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    4 months ago

    This just made the best argument for how I’m going to plan my diet going forward. Nothing but fries and ice cream from now on. I’ll be a paragon of health.

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      4 months ago

      Supposedly Christian Bale consumed a diet of exclusively pizza and ice cream to get from a Machinist physique to a Batman one, so maybe you’re more right than you realized!

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      If we want to max processed make sure you’re going for ice creams that cannot legally call itself ice cream, “frozen desserts”.

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        4 months ago

        I wouldn’t say frozen milk is particularly far into processed territory.

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      4 months ago

      Remember, if you can’t light your ice cream on fire without it melting then find yourself a different brand.

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      4 months ago

      Your sodium, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels will earn gold, silver, and bronze medals for their Olympic-grade high jumps. And that’s how you know it’s healthy.

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    4 months ago

    Unprocessed food is, where your belly realizes where to stop. Processed food is, where your brain wants more.

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    4 months ago

    There’s processed, and then there’s Processed. When I make bread, it’s a processed food, it’s not just whole wheats. Except for fruit, most of what I eat is processed, but not much Processed.

    French fries are so delicious though. Chips and chips are my junk food.

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    4 months ago

    Human breast milk is the only naturally occurring food specifically designed for human consumption.

    I’m waiting for somebody brave enough to promote the all-breast milk diet.

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      4 months ago

      That’s actually a trend among the younger gen alpha folks. Pretty sure it will wear off quickly but gen beta might adopt it, we’ll see

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        4 months ago

        Preorder the newest expansion today, World of Warcraft: The Breastmilk Within

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      4 months ago

      There’s only the tiny issue that most humans are lactose intolerant. Don’t believe me, look it up

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        Man it was wild when my GI doc gave me the low-down on that. Like most everything in metabolic science its a “grey subject.”

        Mammals naturally lose the ability to produce lactase as they wean off mother’s milk. However, humans, particularly Europeans and some areas of Africa have consumed dairy for long enough that we do maintain limited lactase production if it is introduced shortly after weaning. There is evidence in some areas of western Europe specifically, where life long production of lactase does appear to have evolved.

        But for the majority of the world, yeah, they day we started weaning was the day we stopped being lactose tolerant.

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          Yep that’s similar to what I’ve heard about it. I’ve had so many people not believe me that most people globally are not lactose tolerant!

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        But we don’t start that way. If we kept drinking breast milk since infancy, we’d maintain our ability to digest it just fine. It’s a “use it or lose it” situation.

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        Iirc it’s not even ideal for body building as human breast milk has a higher natural sugars and less protein than other animal milks.

        Baby’s brains need those extra calories to develop as quickly as they do, hence the extra natural sugars.

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        There was just an advertisement for colostrum on one of the recent episodes of the Philip DeFranco show.

        If anyone doesn’t know colostrum is like “early milk,” the immediately precursor to breast milk in lactation.

        They’re trying to sterilize the concept here, but yeah breast milk is actually a thing in the bodybuilding and supplement community: ARMA is one of the biggest brands, I believe, if you want to look the stuff up yourself.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      Well, down vote me if you want, but, IMO, human milk should be an industry. I can imagine women having the ability to stay at home with their infant or young child and pump milk, and be paid for it.

      At present, just about nothing humans produce naturally is something that a company will buy. Most countries don’t allow paying for bodily fluids, including but not limited to, blood, plasma, semen (for IVF, etc). Nor do they allow for payment for human organs.

      What’s left? Hair? I know nobody wants your toenail clippings. Certainly nobody is going to pay you for what comes out your backside.

      It’s just one of those markets that is completely untouched IMO.

      And yes the USA will let people buy organs/blood/plasma, etc, but it’s fairly uncommon in the rest of the world.

      In any case, I don’t think any country has any laws forbidding it, but nobody has done it, to my knowledge.

      It’s just interesting to me.

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    4 months ago

    It helps to define what processed food is, specifically what constitutes “processed”

    From Wikipedia:

    Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.

    Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods.

    Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food.[2] These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as frozen meals and re-heated airline meals.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_processing

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    Yeah great point. Humans are definitely always better at doing things (while pursuing profit) than millions of years of evolution can do :/