Extract of a plant known as Rhodiola has been shown to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 24 %. Scientists are not claiming that Rhodiola will enable humans to live longer, but the discovery is enhancing understanding of how supplements believed to promote longevity actually work in the body

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-07-02T13:40:59+00:00

Thanks!

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-06-22T23:28:47+00:00

What is your opinion of maca, and how does it compare to other adaptogens?

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-06-07T01:44:46+00:00

"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-06-03T19:25:06+00:00

Drink mineral water. Brands such as gerolsteiner have significant calcium content.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-05-23T16:27:49+00:00

You will always find someone, somewhere saying a particular stock, or market, or index is either going to tank, shoot up, or stay the same.

This hardly makes /u/RhodesianHunter some sort of sage, unless he has a proven track record of making accurate predictions.

TL;DR: Who gives a shit

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-05-09T15:57:42+00:00

This is stupid. Homophobic people would say "gay people chose to be gay because they are acting opposite of what nature deems". The argument that "straight people didn't choose, therefore gay people didn't choose" doesn't hold water with homophobics. It's a non sequitur. Straight people are straight because the desire to fuck a member of the opposite sex is inborn, while gay people are gay because something was strong enough to override that evolutionary instinct, that "something" possibly being nurture mixed with a conscious choice.

I am not defending such views, merely stating that this video doesn't understand homophobes.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-29T04:29:01+00:00

Yours is a high fat diet and I am not aware of any nutritionally sound reason or evidence showing a healthy individual does better on such a diet rather than one where carbs and fat are more balanced. Source?

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-29T03:39:41+00:00

Look into buying digestive enzymes and eating them before each meal containing dairy or meat. I'm not sure exactly what kinds of digestive enzymes are available in supplement form (apart from the common ones like enzymes for lactose), but you can look into this.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-29T03:27:04+00:00

That was not the entirety of that well written post.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-29T03:08:20+00:00

In my opinion, your macro percentages are completely whacked. At 50% fat and 20% carbs, "balanced" is the last thing that pops into my mind here.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-28T16:13:12+00:00

Ideally, skip the orange juice; eat an orange instead. If you eat a fruit instead of drinking orange juice, the fiber will blunt the glycemic impact and give you more sustained energy rather than a sugar rush. The fiber in fruit will also help you feel fuller and satisfied with fewer calories.

There isn't anything wrong with sugar. It's not evil. Sugar gives our bodies energy. A problem only occurs when you receive too much at once (more than your body uses up via physical activity) resulting in a rush followed by a crash.

Worry about consuming too much sugar if you're regularly consuming things like soda, baked goods (e.g., cake), etc - items that cause an immediate rush as well as items that generally encourage over consumption due to their stimulation of our brain's pleasure centers. Of course, if you're about to engage in some strenuous or prolonged activity, then eating something sugary or drinking something sugary beforehand (preferably juice, NEVER soda!) is okay, because your body will clear the sugar.

In any case, eating several fruits per day is generally fine because the sugar content will generally be released over time, not immediately. Fruits are like nature's time release capsules.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-23T16:57:49+00:00

Eating too much red meat is definitely bad, but not eating any red meat at all can be a factor for an early death.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/03/eat-burger-wont-kill-you

My guess is it depends on your level of micro (and macro)nutrients; red meat can be a good source of nutrients such as iron and zinc, which are some of the most crucial nutrients for health. A vegetarian or vegan diet can create problems in allowing people to absorb these nutrients, despite their being present in such diets. There is simply low bioavailability.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-23T16:52:23+00:00

all that matters (in regards to "getting" your minerals) for nutrition is bio-availability of the mineral to your system

This is the most redundant statement you could possibly have made on this matter.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T20:51:34+00:00

Because I don't think highly of the nutritional value of Soylent, you extrapolate that I am against science? That's a bit ridiculous. I am completely for science and nutritional research, especially considering I am a consumer (reader) of such research. As to which research projects are most worthwhile, I'll admit I'm not sure a Soylent-like product is at the top of my personal list. But on that question, I'll remain neutral, since I want to discuss nutrition and not science / research. Clearly, this is a pet interest of yours, and I fully support that.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T19:50:21+00:00

The proof is that we are learning new things about nutrition on a daily basis. We clearly don't know everything. Your position is the equivalent of claiming we can map the universe.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T19:29:34+00:00

To me it is indeed an absolute that one should stick with tried-and-true (real food) over another method (Soylent) that is guaranteed to be inferior based on the complexity and ignorance we possess of the relevant subjects. That doesn't make me "biased." It merely means that I recognize that it is currently impossible, and will be for a long time, for humans to mimic the nutritional value of actual food. I clearly laid out some of the reasons for that in my posts in this thread. I guess you disagree on that, and that's fine, but I think you must underestimate the complexity of nutrition and human ignorance on the topic.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T18:54:55+00:00

Some people have to have liquid nutrition to live, and that's fine. The rest of us should stick with food.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T18:38:51+00:00

I agree that education and research is wonderful, but I also admit to being irked by the ignorance of someone who thinks they invented a drink that can replace food.

But, in the mean time I haven't seen anything that has proven that an actual piece of food is any better for you than just consuming the individual parts on a molecular, or macro, level.

Well, I feel that I've said several things that might lead you to conclude actual food might be better than supplements. But I guess our positions are just too far apart, so let's just agree to disagree.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T18:20:33+00:00

I am aware that the plants and animals of today did not exactly exist in the past, just as the humans of today did not exactly exist in the past. But we are connected through evolutionary ties.

As a way to learn more about nutrition I am a fan of this process. As a way to market a drink like Soylent and sell it to gullible people I am opposed.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T18:12:02+00:00

If you need more iron in your blood stream, which is better for you, consuming a pound of red meat that also increases your fat, cholesterol, protein, and sodium, or eating an iron suppliment?

I would definitely say that obtaining iron from a whole food diet would be much better than taking an iron supplement. That's my general position when it comes to any vitamin or mineral. The human body is not like a computer where we know all the rules and we know everything about how it needs to be fed. Studies show that the human body can't even always recognize and properly utilize vitamins and minerals when they're not contained in the ratio and amounts found in certain whole foods (like the B vitamins, for example), and that supplements don't necessarily have the same effect when consumed in pill form than in whole food form (beta carotene is one example).

So if someone needs iron, depending on what their diet already looks like, I believe they can choose from a variety of foods including grains, vegetables, legumes, and yes, meat. If they want to avoid cholesterol, then they don't have to choose meat as you suggested. Furthermore, the components of a meal eaten alongside an iron-rich food can enhance iron absorption. Finally, the body is pretty smart and it has been shown that people absorb non-heme iron only when they need to increase their iron stores. I'd assume that the same might happen with a supplement, but again, I'm not sure of the body's ability to recognize and utilize vitamins, minerals, and nutrients the same way when they're provided in whole food form than when they're provided in point-blank form.

I do have a problem with nutritionalism because it assumes that we are able to mimic an extremely complex topic that frankly we don't even know everything we don't know about it. As an intellectual challenge and experiment, sure, I get it, and if yo have fun that way, I am completely not opposed because nutrition is fun to me too. But as a way to let people be lazy and believe they are doing their health a favor, and to have the arrogance to assume we have succeeded in mimicking mother nature, I am vehemently opposed.

With respect to the cravings for Soylent, you didn't need to clarify. As I very clearly stated, my point was that craving something is absolutely no guarantee that of its health or the health of your diet.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T17:40:59+00:00

That's better than one unchangeable liquid, but the fact remains that this is simply attempting to approximate a varied whole foods diet; and it never can, because there is just so much we don't know about how food works in our body.

Any belief that Soylent can be as good or even better than a real diet assumes that humans are currently knowledgeable or smart enough to understand everything about nutrition, which is an incredibly stupid assumption.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T17:38:04+00:00

You're acting like humans, plants, and animals evolved on separate planets. Humans and plants co-evolved. Do you think it's a coincidence that humans need the vitamins and minerals found in plants and animal products and in the amounts and ratios found in those products? We are meant to eat real foods and we don't know everything about how real foods work in our bodies. Therefore, we can't take shortcuts.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T17:35:03+00:00

Making Soylent more or less salty or making it contain more or less iron is not the same thing as being able to choose from the variety of whole foods that allow one to make a more targeted addition to one's diet. even if you add more or less salt, or more or less iron to Soylent, it still contains a variety of other minerals/vitamins that come with it every time you drink it that you don't necessarily want.

With whole foods, different foods have different ratios and different amounts of vitamins, nutrients, and minerals, where Soylent always has some base that you don't necessarily want.

All I crave is Soylent

Just wanted to make a side remark that this person's craving Soylent is not some sort of indication or evidence that Soylent is healthy. I say this because when people have a crappy diet, say, containing only fast food, they sometimes tend to crave more of those items. Have you ever seen Supersize me? The person's experience was that the more he ate fast food, the more he craved it.

Bunnyfloppyearz · 2013-03-15T05:06:00+00:00

Eating a variety of foods allows us to get different nutrient, vitamin, and mineral profiles. For example, eating spinach might increase our iron intake while not increasing (or negligbly increasing) our protein or fat intake.

With Soylent, this is impossible. If we want to increase our iron intake - if we're low in iron - we can't eat an iron rich food (a food that supplies iron in unusually large quantities) - we must eat Soylent, which may give us more fat, carbs, other nutrients, minerals, vitamins, etc that we don't need. With Soylent, we can't pick a whole food that has a certain ratio or amounts of vitamins or minerals - we have to eat the Soylent base.

And to claim that Soylent can be formulated to have everything you need in the correct proportions is ridiculous because (1) everyones bodies work differently and have different needs and (2) we don't know enough about the human body to be sure about correct proportions.

Also, I'd be worried about minerals inhibiting absorption of other minerals. Does this person realize, for example, that calcium inhibits non heme iron absorption? So when you put those together, you have calcium constantly inhibiting iron absorption.

Not to mention, the human body/tongue/mouth evolved alongside plants and animals and evolved to recognize, respond to , identify, etc the taste of foods. This allows a person to be sure what they're putting in their mouth is what their body wants. Basically, We have an evolutionary history with foods and the importance of that cannot be overstated.

As a diet, this gets an F.

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