From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 18:54:26 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> - Sources of food are unimportant if they contain the same nutrients and
> other chemicals. (Protein is protein, whether it comes from meat or
> vegetables. Nutrients are equivalent whether they come from "natural" or
> "unnatural" sources.)
This strikes me as controversial. I seem to recall quite a number of
studies which claim differential absorption of a given nutrient depending
on various context variables, including what you ate along with it, or how
the nutrient was embedded in the food.
> - Monounsaturated fats are best, polyunsaturated fats are good, saturated
> fats are bad.
This also strikes me as controversial. I seem to recall things being a
lot more complex than best-good-bad. And what happened to Omega-6 and
Omega-3?
> - Moderate alcohol is good for you.
But the neurons! Think of the poor, suffering neurons!
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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