I have a fondness for Seed Oil freaks because they’re an object lesson in how bad you can get owned by reading something online that sounds sort of real (canola is too high in omega 6s) and end up exclusively gargling tallow which is like half saturated fat.
remembering a thread on the somethingawful forums from like 15 years ago where page 1 was "let's do the paleo diet!" and by around page 8 was like "breakfast: coffee mug of bone marrow and beef fat" and around page 12 the thread was closed because somebody went to the ER.
remember the guy who claimed he took his mysteriously ill wife to the woods and cured her by feeding them both raw meat, and ppl decided he was a bear married to a zombie
I’m curious if you know the thread lol
Not endowed with the curatorial powers to fish it out (I distinctly and viscerally remember the coffee cup post and another one about someone dreaming about being in a bakery with all these cakes and cookies and etc)
Some rudimentary googling did turn up some other people talking about this poster who I definitely associated with it though but it might have actually been from a different thread forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...
the "USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST" really sells it
I’ve been on and off keto and recently got my bloods done with high cholesterol showing (I was on keto at the time). While it’s worth taking it with a grain of salt, looking into the science of it, it seems that the rapid breakdown as using fat as energy means the fats…
…they track for cholesterol- ie the bigger fats, seem to be found in your blood as they are transported around the body for energy. While its worth noting I don’t think any extreme diet is good for extended periods of time, my bloods returned to normal afterwards and I lost a lot of weight that was…
…affecting my quality of life. I wish it were easier. I’ve tried so many things. Eating well, exercising (so much so I ended up injuring my back severely), and the only way I’ve been able to lose weight without starving myself was keto. Anyway, long spiel to say it’s more than meets the eye.
It also seems that leaner individuals see much more dramatic cholesterol increases over other body types and that it’s not necessarily an indicator of heart disease for people like this. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
This is a pretty brutal chart for the notion that the cholesterolemic elevation from keto is easily reversible. It was reversed in the group who took statins, but the group who didn’t saw a sustained ~40% increase in LDL. Everyone’s gotta do what’s right for them, but that’s definite ASCVD risk.
Yeah, agreed. I also did it while informing my doctor I was doing as such. The problem is so much of our food now is so dense in nutrients that often you're working against your body in trying to stay healthy.
I remember this, apparently you start dreaming about carbs when you're entering ketoacidosis as a cry for help so once you started having the Bread Nightmares it meant you were on the right track and everyone in the thread would congratulate you
they were also obsessed with "bloodwork" and everyone knew their own blood pressure and talked about having the bloodwork results posted on their wall to motivate them. if u expressed concern for their health or attitudes it was an instant ban/probe for concern trolling
😆😂
I remember the summation of goon projects: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...
the one guy i knew who went down the beef tallow rabbit hole had a concerning pallor and i dont know how you look at yourself in the mirror and say "yeah im doing great"
I'm a chef at a farm-to-table/small grocery operation and our shit has gotten turned upside down by the rich owner who has ordained we can't use seed oils and various food colorings anymore.
Naturally he inherited his fortune.
Lmao
one of those wandered into a costco-related subreddit the other day and started complaining about how a particular cake had seed oil in it my brother in christ if you actually care about your health then why are you buying cake
(comments about the subreddits i choose to read are not necessary thanks)
there is a certain sort of person who is just smart enough to be able to trick themselves into becoming an absolute freakus and these people are like the platonic ideal of that.
Tallow folks are WEIRD and intense
But canola oil is woke
Please repost this weekly
I feel like the Venn diagram for these folks and the raw milk freaks is just a circle on a long enough timeline
Oh yeah those guys are funny as hell
No, no, there is a DOCTOR with a bunch of videos on YouTube who describes in great medical and scientific detail why seed oils are bad, mmkay? /s
Diet "culture" has made everyone act like an idiot about food. Just eat some fresh veg and a real actual piece of fruit every once in a while and you'll be fine! This obsession over exact nutrient content blah blah blah is sooooooo overdone and makes everyone have a damn eating disorder about it.
The thing that’s most frustrating about diet and exercise is that literally anything is better than the SAD (Standard American Diet) and lifestyle (sedentary), so any fitness regimen or diet, no matter how insane, will produce enough results to gain a cult following
And the real thing that makes any diet work is the fact that you are now conscious of what you are and are not eating and how much, which is a change for many
Yeah, at least for me, whenever I want to lean out a little, just the act of tracking my food/macro intake alone is enough to put me in a mild caloric deficit, without even trying hit specific cal targets
you just know the same dudes were making jokes about how annoying vegetarians are like 10 years ago
It depends half of them yes and now they’re more precious about food than people with severe allergies. The other half are like lifting/nutriton freaks.
No seed oils in my raw milk and meat smoothies, please
You’re not in deep enough, they explain that actually saturated fats are good too
Oh I’ve read it it’s very funny. I think there’s a case for MCT oil if memory serves but I’d need to check. Mostly they’re just giving themselves heart disease.
Yeah I came across this when I was on keto. The millennial in me saw the saturated fat content and said fuuck no but many VERY legitimate-looking sites were purporting that all that 90s wisdom is outdated IIRC they claim energy is immediately available to burn so the adverse impact wouldn’t happen…
Yeah they seem weird enough in their behavior that they’re kind of a weird exception but I’ve never gotten a clear answer.
They do this thing where they read just enough of a Wikipedia page to confuse if you try to argue with them, but not enough to actually understand the subject matter
Algae oil is the future.
Honestly yeah