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re: Mediterranean Diet 'De-Ages' Patients' Brains by Up to 9 Months in New Study

Posted on 6/12/23 at 11:49 am to
Posted by ItNeverRains
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 11:49 am to
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I can drink wine with this, right?


A glass or two of red wine 3-4 nights a week is absolutely fine.
Posted by CharlesLSU
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 11:51 am to
European flour/wheat products are far easier on the gut as well. Much more pure than the shite we peddle here.
Posted by holdem Tiger
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 11:56 am to
Any reputable sources for this belief?

I'm no expert. What I know is mostly from podcasts.. For instance, Bill Harris, a fat expert and the foremost expert on Omega-3's, believes the seed oil hate is way overblown.

By all means avoid processed food and use olive/avocado oil for most of your cooking. I do. But a little (or even alot) of corn/soybean isn't going to hurt you unless its rancid or your diet is awful.
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:00 pm to
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But a little (or even alot) of corn/soybean isn't going to hurt you unless its rancid or your diet is awful.
What reason should we have to believe that highly-processed industrial seed oils are an exception to the general rule of thumb that highly processed foods are bad for you?
Posted by efrad
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:18 pm to
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Any reputable sources for this belief?

Which "belief"? That we should eat an ancestral diet?
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By all means avoid processed food and use olive/avocado oil for most of your cooking. I do. But a little (or even alot) of corn/soybean isn't going to hurt you unless its rancid or your diet is awful.

Seed oils begin going rancid (oxidizing) within days of production. That's the big problem with them in the first place. If one says "eat seed oils unless they're rancid" one might as well just say "don't eat seed oils."


ETA: I do use some olive/avocado oil sometimes but you have to be careful because many of them are adulterated with seed oils. For example, a UC Davis study showed that every brand of avocado oil except two brands were adulterated with seed oils and partially rancid (One of the good brands is Chosen Foods which I buy). However most of the time I use animal fats from animals with proper ancestral diets. Grassfed butter, ghee, tallow, usually and sometimes duck fat as well.
This post was edited on 6/12/23 at 12:23 pm
Posted by BhamBlazeDog
Birmingham
Member since Aug 2018
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:23 pm to
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lol Keep telling yourself that fanta with "actual sugar" is good for you.



Never said it was good for me, not a big soft drink fan anyway. However, it is undeniably "better" for you than corn syrup.
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:24 pm to
If crawfish caused cancer, prices would still go up
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
39859 posts
Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:29 pm to
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Never said it was good for me, not a big soft drink fan anyway. However, it is undeniably "better" for you than corn syrup.
Nah. It's basically identical. Both are highly processed garbage.
Posted by efrad
Member since Nov 2007
18704 posts
Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:36 pm to
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Never said it was good for me, not a big soft drink fan anyway. However, it is undeniably "better" for you than corn syrup.



Sucrose (what someone would call "actual sugar") is 50/50 glucose/fructose. HFCS 55 is what is used in beverages, and is 45/55 glucose/fructose. It's worse, but not really that much so.

The biggest problem with HFCS is that it's extremely cheap to produce and therefore it became very cheap for food processors to put tons of it in everything.
Posted by soccerfüt
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Member since May 2013
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Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:37 pm to
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Groups ate one of three diets: a Mediterranean diet with lots of nuts
frick eating ANYTHING with Arkansas folks.
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
15544 posts
Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:46 pm to
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appearing almost 9 months younger than expected, compared to estimates of their brain's chronological age.

So a 50 year, 11 month old brain looks like a 50 year, 2 month old brain?
Whoop dee fricking doo
Posted by Salmon
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Member since Feb 2008
86192 posts
Posted on 6/12/23 at 12:51 pm to
a reduction of body weight by just 1% reduced attenuated brain aging

so a 300 lb person losing just 3 lbs

now how about that person losing 50 lb? or 100 lbs?

the correlation here is how obesity might affect dementia and/or alzheimers

but yeah "whoop dee fricking doo"
Posted by SantaFe
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Member since Apr 2019
7850 posts
Posted on 6/12/23 at 1:35 pm to
I like eating green vegetables and fruit but I must have some beef and eggs to go with it.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 6/12/23 at 4:55 pm to
During my deployment to Iraq in '03-'04, I fell in love w/the Mediterranean/Mid Eastern cuisine.

It really is one of the best diets out there, and the food is good to boot.
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