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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i agree wholeheartedly. for me and heart health, i've stopped eating [ultra] processed foods and most sodium. the good news is stop either one and you also stop the other.
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I was dating this girl in Houston for many years. She was just the sweetest, kindest person. Though she was a successful Houston real estate broker, she really wanted to help people improve their health through my gym. She already was in the gym constantly and knew what she was doing. She studied nutrition, got several certifications etc.
Then she got excited about truly helping people. She was determined.
That lasted less than a year.
No one listens. Depending on the gym type, it's usually less than 5% of the total people saying that they will do anything, make every sacrifice and follow every plan that actually do. In most cases that number is around 1%. People like habit. People like easy. People like convenience. The brain is hard wired to resist change. Then you throw on top of that addiction, depression etc.
In addition to people very strongly resisting any kind of change and ultimately reverting back to older routines after about 5-6 weeks, everyone has the worst wives tales and myths burned into their brains and thinks the most absurd things are gospel. So you're constantly fighting the stupidest ideas about diet and nutrition, some from the government, but most from the marketing messages of food manufacturers.
I mean... think about our Saturday mornings growing up. Start the day with a big glass of orange juice, a big stack of whole wheat pancakes, whole wheat toast, margarine instead of butter, no bacon! etc. Very literally the exact formula for obesity, diabetes and heart disease and cancer. How many times have we been told by "them" that eggs are good, eggs are bad, eggs are good again etc.
People just live in this weird fog of stupidity when it comes to eating. That's understandable but what I can never wrap my mind around is that people really don't care about learning. They want to be told something that feels good, then they'll just do that.
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It's not tough people. We spent well over a 1,000,000 years eating almost entirely meat... thats why you're not living in a tree trying to hide from lions and have a brain 3X larger than our next closes living ancestors who still function at the level of a developmentally disabled 2 1/2 year old child... and now you're eating mostly highly processed foods loaded with sugar as the second most common filler by volume after water (fructose - the absolute worst form) added to everything from your beloved whole wheat pasta to your 542 grain bread that is worse for you than eating raw white sugar to your idiotic instant "oatmeal".
12,500 years ago there was a mass extinction event that wiped out most large ruminant animals forcing those who survived, to forage for whatever they could eat and we did develop a sort of generalized gut/digestive system. However, how any human eats today is 1,000,000 miles away from how we at just 100 years ago.
Doesn't that tell you anything???
It should be painfully obvious to anyone that if you want to be healthy, you should be looking backwards, not forwards. The first autopsy verified heart attack was in 1912 in the. They exploded from there. Heart disease, cancers etc all correlate directly to sugar consumption, alcohol consumption and smoking trends... as these things increased, disease increased rapidly.
There is nothing on the timeline of human history about eating oatmeal to be healthy. The introduction of grain into the human diet brought disease and obesity. But slowly since it couldn't be harvested at scale like today. Even worse, modern grains (wheat is 100,000+ times removed genetically from what humans ate just 5000 years ago). Modern dwarf wheat is among the most highly engineered foods there is... and most widely consumed... yet the same fucking EU jackoffs that will cry day and night about "GMO foods" ignore the simple fact that their diets are mostly GMO foods... engineered in a lab, namely modern wheat and other grains which are the base ingredient of almost everything you eat.
If anyone wants to be healthy... then start looking at what people were eating and how they were eating before 1900. Before obesity became the norm. Before heart disease became the number one killer and then cancer. Stop thinking there is some magical "oh, if i do this new thing, everything will be better going forward". Thats so fucking ignorant and intellectually lazy.
On the whole, humans in since 1980 have been smoking less, drinking less, exercising more and eating less fat, less cholesterol and more carbs etc and getting sicker... dementias, cancers, heart disease, obesity, diabetes etc etc etc etc exploded at the same time. Life expectancy has been offset by medications and medical treatments evolving but the core health problems have worsened.
At what point do people wake the fuck up?
"eat oatmeal bro, it will change your life" as you wait in line at Starbucks to get a 1200 calorie cup of sugar and fat, euphemistically called "coffee" so you can feel better about your idiotic eating habits... Jesus fucking Christ. Heart disease didn't happen to you people. It's something you chose and continue to choose.
Here's 500,000 people in 1969 - most with abs. Almost none who ranted and raved about oatmeal. They ate bacon and sausage and eggs for breakfast. Zero of whom feared heart disease.
Maybe the problem in 2026 isn't more or less oatmeal and its just the fact that the blind is leading the blind when it comes to nutrition and it's got us to where we are?
