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It's no better than placebo given all the available evidence.

I'm pretty sure diet filled with legumes, leafy greens, has the same result.

There is no blood sugar spike when you eat 1500kcal of beans. It's slow releasing carb filled with fiber.

I'm pretty sure at /r/plantbaseddiet or /r/vegan many people state that their blood sugar or cholesterol improves.

Acupuncture is placebo given all the available evidence.

acupuncture? it's quite interesting that even animals suffer from placebo, despite us not believing they have cognitive ability to understand someone is doing a "medical procedure" to fix their ailment.

T2 diabetes can be resolved with a high carb diet too, but people dislike eating vegetables. There's nothing as satiating as fibre filled meal filled with slow release/absorption carbs. No sugar spike, nothing, after 1500kcal cooked beans meal.

Yeah, I was thinking of a C++ implementation. The nested for loops get optimized very well for the 3-opt case. There's also a couple of tricks one can do with preloading (simd) of distances for evaluating 2,3-opt simultaneously. That all fits into 200 lines of code. There's also the fact that after executing the best moves there's a lot of previously evaluated moves that are still valid. This also fits into those 200 lines.

Not trivial, but IMO less trivial than self-organizing maps.

7.5% longer than is optimal is way too much.

Doing simple 2-opt/3-opt heuristic (10-100ms CPU time of optimization, 200 lines of code) gets you to 1-3% of the optimum.

We live in the age of globalization and capitalism. There's bunch of cheap stuff coming from all over the world. Collusion on that scale is not possible.

There's just more people suffering from diabetes T2 than ever before. Someone is just profiting off of large demand.

Number of people suffering from diabetes has risen exponentially, demand goes up, so do the prices.

It's going to stabilize as years go on.