The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less

Re:The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less by dpark on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:53PM (#14641991)

> I was using inflammation as a generic term for "disrupting the baseline."

You've lumped literally all illnesses together (anything that disrupts the baseline) and referred to them as "inflammation". This is exactly what I'm criticizing. Inflammation in this context is a meaningless term used to give an appearance of medicine to pseudoscience.

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Re:The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less by Confusion on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:25AM (#14643374)

Inflammation go hand in hand with 'a disrupted baseline'. It is usually the cause of part of the disruption and the symptom of another part of the disruption. So it really isn't that unwarranted to use it as a synonym.

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Re:The secret to a long and healthy life? Eat less by dpark on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:17AM (#14645577)

It is unwarranted. To use "inflammation" as a synonym for "disease" is to willfully imply that inflammation is the root of every disease. This is inaccurate and it misguides people. If you have type 2 diabetes, you probably have some inflammation. But that's unlikely the root cause or the thing to worry about. Obesity and sedentary lifestyle are better causes to attack.

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