What’s worse is they contain sugars or sweeteners.

Don’t use delivery apps. Cook your own meals, it’s both cheaper and better for your health.

There are various tests for pre-diabetes, such as the homa-ir or the hba1c assay. You could ask your physician to see if they can help you with that.

When I had a phone with a replaceable battery I used it until the power button stopped working. I wish more phones had replaceable batteries.

Computerised system here, clocks appear synced up to NTP

Do drugs work the same way on dogs?

I was curious about what it’s in, so I looked up Wikipedia:

Diethanolamine is widely used in the preparation of diethanolamides and diethanolamine salts of long-chain fatty acids that are formulated into soaps and surfactants used in liquid laundry and dishwashing detergents, cosmetics, shampoos and hair conditioners.[5] In oil refineries, a DEA in water solution is commonly used to remove hydrogen sulfide from sour gas. It has an advantage over a similar amine, ethanolamine, in that a higher concentration may be used for the same corrosion potential. This allows refiners to scrub hydrogen sulfide at a lower circulating amine rate with less overall energy usage.

In things found at home it appears to be mainly soaps and cosmetics. These substances in particular:

Some of the most commonly used diethanolamides include:

   - Cocamide DEA
   - DEA-Cetyl Phosphate
   - DEA Oleth-3 Phosphate
   - Lauramide DEA
   - Myristamide DEA
   - Oleamide DEA

In all seriousness, alcohol tends to kill bacteria so I would expect that it would make them sad. But we know so little about our gut microflora, either way.

I figured someone must’ve posted this by now but no! A boredom.

I also use Total Commander for Android. It’s the only file manager on Android that makes sense to me.

You’re not so bad yourself!

I’m going to continue calling a spade a spade.

Grain based diet would ruin our immune systems, and the health of the soil, without animal fertilizer.

And we haven’t even started on the effects of Glyphosate yet!

If you consider nutrient bio-availability, eating meat is order of magnitudes cheaper for the nutrition we’re getting. It’s a no-brainer if only people would give it a go.

Humans make methane too, btw, if we eat vegetables. Much, much less on carnivore in my personal experience, and I’ve not found any studies on environmental impact that even attempt to factor this in.

Besides all the reasons everyone else has already provided in this thread, a browser containing as you so colourfully put it “crypto bullfuck and AI shit” isn’t something I want to use.

To add further nuance to what you’ve said, (I know you know this already, so this is for other readers) when we ingest sucrose it is converted into glucose and fructose, which causes our blood glucose to rise steeply, which then results in a commensurate steep rise in insulin secretion. Elevated insulin causes many cells in the body to uptake glucose and chronically elevating insulin from a constant intake of carbohydrates means that the adipose tissue have no choice but to keep converting glucose to fat.

Sufficient ingestion of protein too will cause an increase in blood glucose levels, but nowhere near as steep nor as high. The biological effects are entirely different. And for anyone curious, it’s possible to visualise this by wearing a continuous glucose monitor. It’ll provide a lot of insight into an aspect of how eating different foods can affect your body differently.

No one else in my family or extended family has had fatty liver. Fortunately yes, I reversed my NAFLD by eating a low carbohydrate high fat diet.

To play the devil’s advocate, there’s some nuance to this. If someone is metabolically unhealthy and obese, they impose an on-going cost to society if only in terms of healthcare. It’s somewhat on the same lines as

the fat person slows everyone down and it endangers the group

Shaming fat people and blaming them for being fat surely isn’t constructive. It very rarely, if ever, is a lack of self control. But I also don’t think we should accept a metabolically diseased state as normal.

Calories on a label are not the calories in the metabolic equation

The calories on the label are what is used to make decisions when it comes to using CICO to decide what to eat, which is why it’s relevant. I see now where you are coming from though, because I’m speaking from a pragmatic stand point, but yours is a theoretical one.

We do however appear to be in agreement, too. Due to these chemical processes CICO is highly reductive and pretty pointless for losing body fat, because what our bodies do in response say to 100 kcal of sucrose and 100 kcal of protein is entirely different, and result in entirely different biological outcomes.

It is inaccurate, food manufacturers are allowed about 20% error margin when measuring calories. Calories have nothing to do with what our bodies do with the material we eat, since everything is a chemical process and we aren’t closed systems. When we mobilize fat we create ketone bodies which are exhaled in our breathing, how do you propose to measure ‘caloric expenditure’ then? It is far too reductive.