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haisch··on Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
Since when should our diet be based on environmental concerns and not nutritional value? Feeding people an incomplete diet sounds like a lousy way to prevent climate catastrophe.
haisch··on Pig brains partially revived four hours after death
I put my money on the brain adapting to the absence of those inputs.
haisch··on Artificial meat: UK scientists growing 'bacon' in labs
3.5 ounces is not 13 slices unless you're eating paper thin bacon. Most packages are 12-16 ounces for that many slices.
haisch··on Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
There are various moral dilemmas that are brought up when discussing diet involving animal foods:

1) Environmental impact 2) Animal suffering 3) Nutrition

Often times people focus on number 1 in spite of number 2 or 3. What if moving away from animal foods in our diets causes an increase in heart disease, cancer and overall mortality?

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases...

With 3% of emissions coming from cattle, the average person could do more by driving their car less, avoiding transatlantic flights and having less children. Just having one less child is equivalent to 60 people on the vegan diet.

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire...

I am skeptical of any imitation meat until they can guarantee to provide the identical nutritional profile of real meat. In the meantime the best we can do is buy locally sourced, grass fed foods that are net zero emissions.

haisch··on Tell HN: I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas
In defense of OP I don't think his problems with Stripe Atlas are born out of any confusion.
haisch··on How Juul became worth $38B
Unrelated but Turmeric often contains elevated levels of lead compared to other spices. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/pdfs/mm6746a2-H.pdf
haisch··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
Yeah you don't want to consume a lot of it without easing into it. I have been using it for only about a week now and use it as a mouth wash after each meal and my teeth have gotten noticeably whiter. You will get diarrhea if you don't ease into consuming it because it is increasing the production of butyrate which is the mucus that lines yours intestines. If it is also killing off gram negative bacteria as studies claim, you may have some stomach irritability as those bacteria die off initially. I'm surprised xylitol isn't more ubiquitous given the research surrounding it.
haisch··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
Its triggers are high insulin, high fasting blood sugar, high triglycerides and low ldl. These are all caused by the food types I listed. High fat low carb diets have been shown to reduce all of these symptoms.
haisch··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
Fat is slept on macronutrient because of the misguided idea that increased fat = increased cholesterol in arteries. Vitamin K2 is an important vitamin that isn't metabolized well from foods containing K1 (vegetables). Animal sources and natto (fermented soy beans) are the best sources of it. It has been shown to help with heart disease, cancer and bone health.

The interesting thing with animal protein is that no study has shown a dose dependent increase in cancer when consuming more of it. Chronic inflammation from gluten, processed foods, pesticides, refined carbs, and refined sugars are the biggest culprits in dietary endorsed cancer.

haisch··on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
According to research from 1985 Xylitol has to been shown to shift the gut microbiome population from gram negative to gram positive bacteria. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4076932
haisch··on Ask HN: I own a large adult business and am moving to the Bay Area soon
I would move to LA instead. Slightly lower cost of living and respectable tech presence.