Nutrition

TagLast edit: 6 Aug 2020 17:51 UTC by Multicore

How to optimize your food intake for various desired outcomes; nutrition science, diets, experiments.

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

Bob Baker25 Jul 2021 2:39 UTC

99 points

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Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review

Erich_Grunewald12 Mar 2021 12:47 UTC

26 points

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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Benefits of Psyllium Dietary Fiber in Particular

Brendan Long28 Aug 2024 18:13 UTC

14 points

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(journals.lww.com)

Product Endorsement: Food for sleep interruptions

Elizabeth31 May 2023 1:50 UTC

45 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Calibrating Adequate Food Consumption

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Mar 2021 0:00 UTC

5 points

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Diet Experiment Preregistration: Long-term water fasting + seed oil removal

lc23 Aug 2023 22:08 UTC

56 points

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The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 20:30 UTC

48 points

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A Response to A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

skot52312 Aug 2021 4:23 UTC

82 points

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(goodtosell.substack.com)

Perhaps vastly more people should be on FDA-approved weight loss medication

25Hour14 Aug 2021 17:22 UTC

57 points

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[Question] Do you like excessive sugar?

momom29 Oct 2021 10:40 UTC

3 points

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[Question] What health-related tips do you have for buying meat?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2021 7:09 UTC

17 points

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My current thinking on money and low carb diets

Adam Zerner29 Oct 2021 6:50 UTC

11 points

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CICO is a weird reference class

Chad Nauseam23 Jan 2022 7:00 UTC

42 points

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The Good Balsamic Vinegar

jenn26 Jan 2024 19:30 UTC

51 points

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(jenn.site)

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC

347 points

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(dynomight.net)

Missed Distinctions

jimrandomh11 Apr 2009 3:15 UTC

38 points

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Bariatric surgery seems like a no-brainer for most morbidly obese people

lc27 Sep 2023 1:05 UTC

12 points

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any good rationalist guides to nutrition / healthy eating?

Ben A30 Jun 2022 0:50 UTC

7 points

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Potato diet: A post mortem and an answer to SMTM’s article

Épiphanie Gédéon14 Jul 2022 23:18 UTC

47 points

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So What’s Up With PUFAs Chemically?

J Bostock27 Apr 2024 13:32 UTC

57 points

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Review of Examine.com’s vitamin write-ups

Elizabeth and Martin Bernstorff

26 Sep 2022 23:40 UTC

60 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

Elizabeth16 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC

484 points

121 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

Luck based medicine: angry eldritch sugar gods edition

Elizabeth19 Sep 2023 4:40 UTC

75 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat them

Elizabeth12 Jan 2023 9:10 UTC

107 points

34 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Vegan Nutrition Testing Project: Interim Report

Elizabeth20 Jan 2023 5:50 UTC

102 points

37 comments8 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity

RomeoStevens28 Feb 2014 6:28 UTC

262 points

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you should probably eat oatmeal sometimes

bhauth25 Aug 2024 14:50 UTC

42 points

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(bhauth.com)

Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

Elizabeth1 Jun 2023 17:10 UTC

148 points

83 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Which sources do you trust the most on nutrition advice for exercise?

jacobjacob16 Dec 2020 3:22 UTC

29 points

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Lessons learned from offering in-office nutritional testing

Elizabeth15 May 2023 23:20 UTC

86 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Internal Diet Crux

Jacob Falkovich2 Apr 2018 5:05 UTC

44 points

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What should I have for dinner? (A case study in decision making)

bentarm12 Aug 2010 13:29 UTC

29 points

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If calorie restriction works in humans, should we have observed it already?

Mark_Eichenlaub24 Apr 2012 4:28 UTC

32 points

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My Effortless Weightloss Story: A Quick Runthrough

CuoreDiVetro30 Sep 2023 23:02 UTC

123 points

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Enjoying food more: a case study in third options

MBlume16 Mar 2011 6:23 UTC

25 points

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The Four-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss—any LWers tried it?

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jun 2011 22:18 UTC

30 points

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There is way too much serendipity

Malmesbury19 Jan 2024 19:37 UTC

366 points

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An appeal for vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza and a simple evolutionary theory for why this is plausible.

Michael A22 Dec 2020 19:40 UTC

11 points

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[Question] How can I find trustworthy dietary advice?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jan 2021 13:11 UTC

30 points

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Obesity Epidemic Explained in 0.9 Subway Cookies

tinyanon12 Aug 2021 15:45 UTC

8 points

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Critiquing Gary Taubes, Final: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss

ChrisHallquist4 Jan 2014 5:16 UTC

25 points

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Clarifying the palatability theory of obesity

Matthew Barnett10 Feb 2022 19:16 UTC

87 points

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Books Worthy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

14 points

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Food manufacturers are out to get you

jwray13 Mar 2022 19:36 UTC

27 points

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What Diet Books Don’t Teach: A book review and a request for more reading

Lone Pine28 Jun 2022 12:27 UTC

22 points

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On akrasia: starting at the bottom

seecrow1 Aug 2022 4:08 UTC

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My search for a reliable breakfast

tomdekan18 Oct 2022 9:42 UTC

6 points

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(www.tomdekan.com)

Training My Friend to Cook

lsusr29 Aug 2021 5:54 UTC

70 points

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Quick evidence review of bulking & cutting

jp4 Apr 2024 21:43 UTC

31 points

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My 5-step program for losing weight

Nikita Sokolsky30 Jun 2024 1:05 UTC

22 points

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(nsokolsky.substack.com)

Nerdtrition: simple diets via spreadsheet abuse

dkl927 Oct 2024 21:45 UTC

8 points

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(dkl9.net)

[Question] How should vegans think about Methionine needs?

ChristianKl10 Nov 2024 9:28 UTC

32 points

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Americans are fat and sick—and it’s their fault…right?

Declan Molony19 Nov 2024 6:41 UTC

6 points

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Quantopian contest, but for food intake and weight

Lucent8 Nov 2023 5:41 UTC

40 points

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On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

304 points

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Low hanging fruit: analyzing your nutrition

Alexei5 May 2012 5:20 UTC

15 points

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Nutrition heuristic: Cycle healthy options

aaq17 Jul 2019 12:44 UTC

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Nutrition is Satisficing

aaq16 Jul 2019 16:13 UTC

18 points

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Memory, nutrition, motivation, and genes

PhilGoetz26 Feb 2013 5:25 UTC

24 points

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Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 1: Mainstream Nutrition Science on Obesity

ChrisHallquist25 Dec 2013 18:27 UTC

24 points

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Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 2: Atkins Redux

ChrisHallquist30 Dec 2013 0:58 UTC

7 points

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Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 3: Did the US Government Give Us Absurd Advice About Sugar?

ChrisHallquist30 Dec 2013 0:58 UTC

8 points

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How to use human history as a nutritional prior?

CasioTheSane10 Mar 2012 0:47 UTC

8 points

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Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds

Vive-ut-Vivas8 Nov 2010 21:42 UTC

10 points

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Video (11 min): fallacies in nutrition and cancer research.

RomeoStevens15 Sep 2012 4:07 UTC

7 points

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[Question] Nutritional Supplements: A Potted Guide?

pcm5022 Apr 2019 9:51 UTC

4 points

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LW’s take on nutrition?

michael_b3 Apr 2015 0:33 UTC

7 points

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Optimal eating (or rather, a step in the right direction)

c_edwards19 Jan 2015 1:35 UTC

8 points

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Fasting Mimicking Diet Looks Pretty Good

sarahconstantin4 Oct 2018 19:50 UTC

81 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] Does freeze-dried mussel powder have good stuff that vegan diets don’t?

DanielFilan12 Jan 2019 3:39 UTC

18 points

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Life Extension through Diet Modification

Caerbannog16 May 2011 18:36 UTC

23 points

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Dietary Debates among the Fruit Gnomes

Sherrinford3 Jun 2020 14:09 UTC

26 points

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Soylent Orange—Whole food open source soylent

RomeoStevens26 Mar 2013 21:20 UTC

32 points

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Adventist Health Study-2 supports pescetarianism more than veganism

Elizabeth17 Jun 2023 20:10 UTC

67 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Mushrooms

moridinamael10 Nov 2017 16:57 UTC

9 points

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[Question] Has Eliezer ever retracted his statements about weight loss?

CheerfulWarrior14 Oct 2020 19:04 UTC

−14 points

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European Soylent alternatives

ChristianKl15 Aug 2016 20:22 UTC

20 points

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Knowledge Base 3: Shopping advisor and other uses of knowledge base about products

iwis9 Oct 2023 11:53 UTC

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