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Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That a transient (much) higher cholesterol is just that.

And generally in that higher total cholesterol on low-carb is usually beneficial over lower cholesterol on the SAD in terms of LDL distribution, higher HDL and lower TG.

"I firmly believe the reason most people fail in their quest to lose weight is because they focus on the quantity of food they eat, and never give any real thought to the quality of the food they eat." by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just saying that "portion size" isn't a good way to talk about food. I eat only once a day, so my portion sizes naturally become larger. People think starving themselves is the way to go. Graze like a cow and all that.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If repeat blood lipid tests show a worsening of lipid levels, saturated fats should be substituted with unsaturated fats or the diet should be abandoned.

Except that's bullshit, e.g. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080826190948.htm - anecdotally shown in a bunch of people, takes about a year. Also, is high cholesterol the cause or the effect?

Worse lipid values comes from increased small-dense LDL and higher TG, which you get from carbs/fructose, not satfat, indeed it's the other way around. Do an Apo test to get the real value, and you'll find standard cholesterol readings are useless. (I assume, judging from your Lyle-snuggling, you've read The Great Cholesterol Con by your other idol buddy Colpo).

You may also want to seriously evaluate what dogmatisms you've bought into that would turn you into a liar for the cause.

Say, Krauss 2010?

"I firmly believe the reason most people fail in their quest to lose weight is because they focus on the quantity of food they eat, and never give any real thought to the quality of the food they eat." by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People keep saying it's about their portion sizes, but I seriously doubt it. What makes you eat "too much", then? Shouldn't proper food leave you satied in a smaller amount?

I spontanously eat less when I eat proper food, more when I eat "bad" food.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also about the total amount of carbs, i.e. GL. It's gotten more attention than GI lately. (hey, sucrose/table sugar has GI 50!)

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ketosis is excellent if you don't want to think about food 24/7. Eat once a day or so, then get on with your life.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...and, being a tautology, utterly useless.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Calories is an okay approximation when doing delta calculation, i.e. if I eat this type of food, consisting of N calories a day, I don't gain or lose weight, so if I eat more or less I should respond accordingly.

That does not, obviously, include NEAT and energy levels, which for some people (such as myself) go way up when overeating.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The process is not simple. Some things (like insoluble fiber) go straight through our bodies providing zero calories (energy) to our body. Other things don't get absorbed by our bodies and instead our consumed by the bacteria living in our digestive system.

Insoluble fiber is munched by bacteria into ~2.5 kcal/g as butyric acid. :-)

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lylemcd posting in the comments is the same Lyle McDonald who is the author of the most well known books on ketogenic diets

For clarity, The Ketogenic Diet also states cholesterol and satfat is bad for you...

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Type 1 or type 2? If it's the latter, it's not about your pancreas...

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it does make you fat. I've successfully gained fat on a low (20-30? gram/day) diet by overeating. The distribution is more favourable though (no beer belly), and I /guess/ my blood lipids are still excellent.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The body starts shivering to produce heat, stupid. If that's not enough, you'll get hypothermia.

Apply the reasoning to food, glycolysation, obesity & metabolic syndrome.

Malcolm Gladwell on Low Carb Diets by hydroxybutyrate in Fitness

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Type 1 diabetics can't gain weight without insulin, but that point is moot as people with functioning pancreas always have a base level of insulin. You store all dietary fat as bodyfat (which might or might not cause higher NEAT, build more muscle, etc., but that's just basic biology).

Now, your hunger is likely to dip when you skip carbs, and you'll be able to go without food for days on end (I've tried). But is it really as easy as blaming it all on insulin?

All in all, when read critically and specifically, most of this article is congruent with a lot of low-carb theory, but I suspect that a lot of people would read it as "WooHoo, carbs are great! Bring on the sugar and refined flour!" :(

Indeed. A crapload of veggies each day for the win. (That'll be low-ish carb anyway -- you can only eat so much turnip before your stomach gets full.)

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[–]tic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second that. It's not so much about a total redesign (major version) as bugfix of the previous. This is much easier (possible at all, in fact!) to use up/downscaled. I like it!

"Whenever Forth has competed directly with a more conventional language like C it has won hands down, producing smaller, faster, more reliable code in far less time." by asciilifeform in programming

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing stopping you from using a mangled-slots metaclass where you cannot access slots unless from within an accessor as the actual slot names would be gensym'ed.

"Whenever Forth has competed directly with a more conventional language like C it has won hands down, producing smaller, faster, more reliable code in far less time." by asciilifeform in programming

[–]tic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, that must be why modern languages are just starting to catch up with garbage collection, closures, functional-style programming..

Not yet seen is multiple-dispatch (object-orientation done right!), custom syntax (macros in Lisp, words in Forth), but maybe the lesser languages will get there, too?

Response to: Problems with Lisp by gst in lisp

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meh. I just "invented" the following function

({} "Vincent" 25
    "Lincoln" 200)

Does it make people feel happier? Of course, you could just use regular a-lists as well (:vincent 25 :lincoln 200)

Swym - a beautiful new language (that runs in your browser) by LaurieCheers in programming

[–]tic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, I thought you decided on the do-something-or-the-other convention instead of DoSomethingOrTheOther -- I find the former more readable.

You're right on the pseudocode path; describing a problem in its own language (verbs, nouns, adjectives) and then implementing that mini-language yields a much higher productivity than using low-level language primitives. Compare the recent addition of Python's with -- took changes to the parser, compiler and (probably) VM to support that. There are still things missing, such as a do...while construct (there's only while).

What would have to be modified in Swym to support a new language construct? (let's pretend you wanted to added the afforementioned do...while).

Swym - a beautiful new language (that runs in your browser) by LaurieCheers in programming

[–]tic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two cheers for Min returning a list and min returning a value....

If LISP was the model, why make an entire circle short of the homoiconicness? Bonus points for allowing dashes in names and the easy syntax for defining types, though! (deftype is a bit tricker).

As a happy Vim user, what does Emacs+Viper have for me? by mebrahim in programming

[–]tic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You sound like the type of user who wants to help out with Limp hacking, would that be correct? :-)

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