You know it’s the brain chemicals, you can actually change those chemicals through diet and lifestyle changes. Slow meaningful benefits can be had. Reduce sugars, sunlight, sleep, relax.

If you want a real adventure, try out Qubes.

Run your own Lemmy instance or Mastodon instance. You can say whatever you want, it’s absolute freedom of speech. People don’t have to listen to you, and many people may defederate, but that’s their choice

We do! Sky lights, fiber optic sky light extenders, etc. humans are always trying to light up their artificial caves with sunlight.

Building architecture used to have amazing creative designs to capture this free lighting.

However, cheap efficient indoor lighting removed this as a driving force, so newer buildings don’t have the same design constraints

As somebody who only drinks black, I can confirm, there are no problems anywhere ordering it. Just tell them black coffee, or iced Americano, or an espresso shot, or whatever. And if they make mistake and you show it to them they’ll fix it. There is literally no conspiracy here

Yeah, that’s just meeting other people. No two people have exactly the same beliefs on everything

huh! i stand corrected. i’ve never seen them, but yeah they exist! interesting.

What’s wrong with that? Keeping margarine level when you use it is not something I’ve ever seen done before.

Side note - margarine is not butter! It’s a dyed oil product made to mimic butter.

Butter doesn’t come in tubs.

Gather evidence, talk to the admins of your instance, and the admins of the instance of the abuser. The best option is to get their account banned or at least blocked at the instance level

Of course, don’t engage with them, it might be best just to block them and they’ll get bored and go away

believe that you need to be able to understand every ingredient in your food and why it’s there. Maybe I just have an unusually sensitive stomach, but even one preservative or E code emulsifier or additive gives me troubles.

100%

The trouble is “good” means different things to different people, and importantly, in different dietary contexts. almost all “news” about nutrition is based on observational epidemiology with tremendously weak signals, it’s just noise, and you can bias your math the report whatever noisy signal you want. it is really best ignored.

From your own list you have multiple good/bad pairs from different dietary camps that contradict each other.

The one thing most camps can agree on is whole foods are the best options.

Thanks for the down vote! Best way to have a civil discussion is to throw negativity around.

The review also lists many potential hazards. If you want to lower your LDL it’s a great tool, no question. However, ldl is not a disease and lowering it in isolation isn’t going to be good for your health.

The entire point of including the article is to demonstrate that plant sterols are different than animal sterols. In your original comment up thread you were wondering about further differences between palm oil and animal saturated fats like butter… There you go, they are materially different

Humans ate saturated fat as the primary fat source until about 100 years ago - to blame saturated fat for the modern epidemic of cvd doesn’t really make sense.

Turns out everything has some association with cancer https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.112.047142

So when one group introduces a law saying we should label anything with a cancer risk, nobody can argue against it… but once the law is in place, it’s now a tool which people can use against their pet peeves, and since everything has some association with cancer, you get the label on everything.

However saturated fatty acids are bad for your health.

Saturated Fats have been much maligned by Ancel Key’s lipid heart hypothesis, but it doesn’t stand up to modern scrutiny - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077

Saturated fats are not bad for your health.

the pseudo-science group

phytosterols are a real thing - https://doi.org/10.4331/wjbc.v17.i2.121685

Please don’t hurt people.

you too!

I am truly interested to know if palm oil is much worse than other saturated fats, so if you have additional source worth reviewing it would be appreciated.

Palm oil has plant sterols, which interfere with human hormonal signaling and lipoprotein function.

Lots of people think this is a benefit of using plant based fats, but some of us don’t

Have one VPN attached in a work profile and another in your private space

Buy ear cup replacements off AliExpress for a few dollars.

You can also put on ear booties to cover the headset.

This is really well written!

Well written! Yes combinations are a great way to complete the liebig amino acid barrel - here is a fun tool that helps do this https://www.diaas-calculator.com/ - but DIAAS cannot be “calculated”, we can guess by adding up amino acids in isolation, but you don’t get a real DIAAS reading unless you feed the combination to a pig then actually measure the amino acid absorption.