Re: Consensus diet? RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 18:54:26 MDT

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    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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