Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:54PM
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My opinion as someone who's had extremely restrictive diets in order to lose weight: People overthink this. As you've said, our bodies are pretty good at making due with what they get. Aim for a baseline: protein plus some vegetables, some of which are dark green; and then just occasionally indulging in some cravings will probably cover the rest.
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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
by gilbetron on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:31PM
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I'm in my late 40s, and I was shocked to find out several years ago that I'm the happiest when I just eat meats/proteins and veggies. While I like fruit, it generally makes me feel crappy, almost as bad as with processed carbs. It helped that I also "discovered" sauteed greens, which really helps boost many of my meals now.
Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
by manigandham on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:38PM
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Fruits are all sugar, they're nature's candy. They've also been genetically modified to be bigger and sweeter than they ever were before industrial farming.
The term you’re looking for is ‘bred’.
Genetic modification is a term of art, one which doesn’t apply (yet) to fruits on the market.
This will not be true forever, papaya and banana are likely to be the first ones.
Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
by manigandham on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:56PM
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Ah, got it. What are the GMO versions designed to do then?
work on GMO papayas and bananas is to render them less susceptible to diseases.
Bananas in particular are a triploid, so any given strain is effectively one big clone propagated by vegetative cutting, hence the lack of seeds. This leaves them unusually susceptible to funguses, which can adapt to them, while they can't remix their genome to adapt back.