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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • The Diabetes in SEA is a real puzzle. Rice has always been a staple of the local diet, so that can’t really account for the rise in type 2 diabetes.

    If I had to speculate its a combination of both increased carbohydrate consumption (glucose spikes), process food (glucose spikes, inflammation), and the wide-spread adoption of industrial oils (inflammation, and attacks cholesterol). We know that most dietary problems come from mixing carbohydrates and fat (randle cycle inflammation)

    If you are in the US then you might want to check out

    I think glycemic index is only useful in the context of dosing insulin, not for gauging overall health of food. I find the carbohydrate-insulin model of health most compelling. The big difference is it’s the TIME of elevated blood sugar that is more important then the HEIGHT of the spike. Obviously reducing both is good, shorter time, lower spike, but if you have to focus on one, time has the biggest metabolic payoff.


  • haha, not sure if that was sarcasm (the internet makes us all skeptical, heh), but I’ve found CGMs to be a massively useful tool. Where I live I can order them from aliexpress for $20, and that gives me two weeks of biohacking protentional. I’ve found the best benefit by giving them to my friends so they can see what their bodies are doing, it’s been my sneaky way of convincing people to go low carb.


  • Great writeup

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    Just want to add if you ever want to debug what a sweetener is doing to your glucose or insulin there is a easy test you can do at home. Wear a CGM (Continuous glucose monitor), which are fairly inexpensive and OTC now. When your blood sugar is flat and stable, take a sample of the sweetener by itself, eat it, and watch the glucose response for the next hour. If it goes up, then there is glucose in it, if it goes down, then the sweetener causes a insulin response.




  • Currently there aren’t enough tools for small communities. It’s hard for a niche community to grow and flourish.

    If you post something like ‘BBQ is delicious’, it becomes a open referendum for the entirety of Lemmy to tell you why everything you said is wrong. Everybody dog piles their own personal biases and issues. And that’s fine for a general discussion.

    lemmy needs smaller community safe spaces so the conversations can grow by interested parties, that’s currently lacking. Like a subscriber only post, only seen by people who subscribe to a community. And then when it gets large enough, people can say I want this to be generally available. I think that would help a lot





  • Here is my current understanding

    For some external reason you are prejudiced against zero carb. In the heat of the moment you thought you would punch down on a tiny community by saying it’s dangerous that it exists, invoking the paradox of tolerance, implying it’s a Nazi type of thing.

    When asked why a diet is something causes intolerance by tolerating it you realized you didn’t have a good reason for that statement. You have attempted to leave gaps for others to infer your reasons because stating them explicitly would show how inconsistent they were.

    This entire comment thread has been a demonstration of avoidance.

    If I’m wrong, please disabuse me of my conclusion.




  • my trigger here is you stated there is a reason the paradox of tolerance would apply to zero-carb, but will not state the reasons. You leave it up to me, the reader, to infer your biases, context, and motivations. I wish to understand the actual argument, and not till at windmills.

    Obviously I don’t think zero-carb is intolerant of other diets, hence my request for you to enumerate your rational. If you insist on me divining strawmen arguments… I will, but I’d much rather hear your actual logic.