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Re:Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of s... by legulere on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:03AM (#33656690)
I start to wonder if you can eat with too much variety as well. People tend to eat more when there's more variety (low-carb and potato-only diets work mostly by making you bored of eating).
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Re:Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of s... by kritiko on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:09AM (#33656772)
The slime mold guys are currently testing the hypothesis that the potassium in potatoes is why the potato monodiet works…

The mechanism of diets isn’t understood yet - check out Kevin Hall’s metabolic ward study of low fat high carb vs. high fat low carb for some paradoxical results.

I’d be happy finding a diet that consistently works for people before understanding how.

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Re:Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of s... by CadmiumYellow on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:08PM (#33660302)
Kevin Hall also did a fascinating study on ultra-processed vs less processed foods which found that people ate more and gained more weight on ultra-processed foods even when the two diets were identical in macronutrient composition! I would guess that the main reason dramatically different diets show similar levels of effectiveness is that all of them involve drastically limiting intake of ultra-processed foods.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946062/

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