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by 462436347 2y ago
Consumption of HFCS and added sugar are both down significantly since 2000, with the decline in the former driving the overall decline in the latter.
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by 462436347 2y ago
> addicted to HFCS HFCS consumption (along with added sugar consumption in general) peaked in 2000 and declined steadily until 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768
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by 462436347 2y ago
> The fact you even have to ask this question is telling. Specifically you're talking about Hadza tribe that spends pretty much all of their waking hours outdoors hunting and tracking pray, day in and day out. Look up Pontzer's
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by 462436347 2y ago
Good thing the beef and diary industries aren't spending any money to convince you that saturated fat is harmless.
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by 462436347 2y ago
Fizzino's HPF study, while not an RCT, is the most comprehensive study to date done on HPFs. She's also identified links between HPF proliferation and tobacco companies: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.
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by 462436347 2y ago
> Seems like you are cherry picking data and ignoring other data from the chart - sure the total sugars from 2000-2020 are down slightly while what’s being labeled as “corn sweeteners” or HFCS is up 3x HFCS consumption is still higher th
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by 462436347 2y ago
What's your point? The article implied that sugar magically causes obesity and diabetes, all calories being equal, when the weight of the evidence supports neither assertion, and ironically implicates saturated fat as being worse, show
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by 462436347 2y ago
> The problem in US is the variety of food and how engineered they are to be hyper palatable The best study done to date on hyperpalatable foods found that fat and sodium were the most common drivers of hyperpalatability: https:/&#
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by 462436347 2y ago
Exercise temporarily raises your heart rate and systolic blood pressure, yet avid exercisers have lower RHRs and SBPs; how do you know it isn't the same with carbohydrates, provided fat (especially saturated) is restricted?
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by 462436347 2y ago
US sugar consumption declined from 2000-2020 to 1970s levels, while its T2D prevalence only increased: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768 And if sugar is so metabolically harmful, where are the RCTs showing this?
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by 462436347 2y ago
Because adding fat (usually in the form of vegetable oil) and sodium is the cheapest, easiest way to make food hyperpalatable, and the share of the grocery store shelf space occupied by these products has exploded in the last 40 years, grea
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by 462436347 2y ago
Sugar consumption peaked in 2000 and has been in steady decline since, and not only that, but the decline has been led by a decline in HFCS consumption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768 30% of the US was obese
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by 462436347 2y ago
How much longer are you people going to keep beating this dead horse? Sugar consumption has been in secular decline since 2000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768 People are eating about as much sugar per capit
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by 462436347 2y ago
> Stuff like this tells me the privacy fight is just completely unwinnable Mozilla has done so many things to weaken users' trust in it (like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166801 ) that at this point m
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by 462436347 2y ago
I don't agree. This is something so basic that there isn't, from a Q&A standpoint, a justification for it ending up broken for 2/3rds of a year, and where the kind of hard-line stance Linus takes against certain kinds of
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by 462436347 2y ago
> The website you are visiting might be breaking it. There are many sites which will force that option to grey out upon right-click. No, this is a new thing that happens on sites that weren't and aren't doing that. Also tab-swi
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by 462436347 2y ago
I use Linux, so initially I assumed it was some weird Linux thing. Until it happened on my father's brand-new Win-11 notebook. This is embarrassing and disappointing. I'm old enough to have used the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey)
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Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
144 points by 462436347 2y ago|94 comments
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by 462436347 2y ago
Specifically the right-click menu option, which is often greyed out for no apparent reason. This happens on both Windows and Linux. Ctrl+C still works, but how does Firefox break something as basic as the right-click menu and copy in 2024?
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Association of a Low-Carb High-Fat Diet with Plasma Lipid Levels and CVD Risk(jacc.org)
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by 462436347 2y ago
> I may have read theories that it contributes more to visceral fat, which is really bad for your health? But that won’t be the majority of weight gained I think. Yeah, about that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar
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by 462436347 2y ago
> Many vegetable oils (and particularly seed oils) are high in linoleic acid. And guess what’s making up a rapidly increasing fraction of body fat? (figure from Stephan Guyunet): No, this can't be true, since HN has repeatedly told
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by 462436347 2y ago
Sugar consumption has been declining since 2000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768
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by 462436347 2y ago
The obesity rate was 30% in 2000, when sugar consumption peaked and the low-carb movement became mainstream. Now the obesity rate is over 40%: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/11497.jpeg &gt
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by 462436347 3y ago
> A phreaker going by Joybubbles was the first to exploit the tone by whistling. Joybubbles (formerly Joe Engressia) specifically denied being the first. In this interview (no timestamp), he mentions having heard of others phreaking as f
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by 462436347 3y ago
> FYI - 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco. Was a common supervision tone used by the NA toll network prior to the introduction of SS7. Also practically everyone here knows (or ought to) that already, given that Jobs and
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by 462436347 3y ago
Wrong: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
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by 462436347 3y ago
> Elevated glucose is exactly what causes type 2 diabetes. Take away the glucose supply, and you don't have elevated insulin. Fear of glucose that is too high too often is entirely justified and is not something that should be going
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by 462436347 3y ago
> If we look at the Blue Zone, many people eat mostly carb. So carb/high GI food definitely doesn't cause diabetes. While obesity is known to be the greatest risk factor for T2DM, you can induce insulin resistance in weight-sta
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by 462436347 3y ago
> ancient Greece, is completely alien to the modern US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(disambiguation)#United_S...

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