If someone is on the phone in the bathroom, should i just continue to shit?

Why take phone calls in bathroom?

Edit: Also, if someone is taking a phone call in bathroom before i enter, should i start to shit?

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u/RamenPantalones — 3 hours ago

Do evolutionary arguments really apply to nutrition/diets?

I’ve seen many evolutionary arguments for diet online (not from academics, maybe they get better and more sophisticated) but find what i have seen unconvincing because what we die of/selection pressures have changed drastically. Im unwilling to grant the assumption that even if ancient diets were generally optimal in the past they must be optimal now. Living 80+ years is a new common occurrence in human history. Infant mortality is very uncommon now, and now it pays to plan for more long term. Selection pressure is applied for the factors that caused infant mortality (or other ancient common causes of death) in the past. That may not help you with the old age illnesses that are common now.

In addition: selection pressure obviously directly impacts until adults reproduce, and potentially until children reach adult age. After that i believe the childs survival till after reproductive age is largely decoupled from parents survival, so selection pressure largely does not apply to old age illnesses.

Dietary requirements are known to change with lifestyle/level of physical activity. Typical lifestyle now is completely different. RDA’s though add a lot of margin to address this and some are adjusted for bioavailability of typical diets.

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u/RamenPantalones — 4 days ago

How do y’all define democracy?

I have heard majority rule but that seems to imply plurality voting of some sort and that is obviously vulnerable to spoiler effect. I guess they mean the sincere preferences of the majority, rules?

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u/RamenPantalones — 5 days ago
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Fever

Is it normal to have fevers after eating raw ground beef? It seems every time I do I feel a little under the weather. I do have a imunnocompromised disease should I continue on this diet? If so what can I do to minimize these effects I’m tired of feeling like this every time

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u/RamenPantalones — 5 days ago

Do evolutionary arguments have a place in nutrition science?

I’ve seen many evolutionary arguments for diet online (not from academics, maybe they get better and more sophisticated) but find what i have seen unconvincing because what we die of/selection pressures have changed drastically. Im unwilling to grant the assumption that even if ancient diets were generally optimal in the past they must be optimal now. Living 80+ years is a new common occurrence in human history. Infant mortality is very uncommon now, and now it pays to plan for more long term. Selection pressure is applied for the factors that caused infant mortality (or other ancient common causes of death) in the past. That may not help you with the old age illnesses that are common now.

In addition: selection pressure obviously directly impacts until adults reproduce, and potentially until children reach adult age. After that i believe the childs survival till after reproductive age is largely decoupled from parents survival, so selection pressure largely does not apply to old age illnesses.

Edit: that may be countered by grandmother hypothesis, tribal knowledge presrrved by elders, extra childcare and is suspect

Dietary requirements are known to change with lifestyle/level of physical activity. Typical lifestyle now is completely different. RDA’s though add a lot of margin to address this and some are adjusted for bioavailability of typical diets.

Edit: please refrain from having diet wars on r/nutrition posts. They are not allowed. Diet wars are allowed on the related post below in another subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/carnivorediet/s/SUmWyj0Sf2

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u/RamenPantalones — 5 days ago

On intuition

Intuition is not a substitute for rigorous reasoning or data. It motivates rigorous reasoning, generates hypothesis, and is useful in finding reasoning. Only relying on your intuition and rejecting everything else is highly unreliable and is just an excuse for anti-intellectualism.

An example from math:
https://youtu.be/YtkIWDE36qU

An example from history:
Sailors assessments of cause of scurvy before james linds controlled trials

“I feel great on X”
Tells you little on long term health. Drugs may give some a fun death.

“Its natural so its good”
Literal fallacy

“Its ancient so it must be good”
Literal fallacy

u/RamenPantalones — 7 days ago

How does one generate the most greenhouse gasses one can in their lifetime using only mechanisms our bodies do?

So like breathing and farting would expel greenhouse gasses. To maximize farts in isolation, i believe the consensus is to have a regularly changing high fiber diet.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nutrition/s/0d7PyHue7y

We breath the most when we do cardio (i think). Maybe the key is to become a distance running super athlete with a rotating high fiber diet?

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u/RamenPantalones — 13 days ago

What diet would maximize the amount of farts over ones lifetime?

I dont think you could just choose really unhealthy diet like straight taco bell bean burritos, because i think you need to live long to fart a lot of times in your life.

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u/RamenPantalones — 13 days ago
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What diet would maximize amount of farts in ones lifetime?

I dont think you could just choose really unhealthy diet like straight taco bell bean burritos, because i think you need to live long to fart a lot of times in your life.

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u/RamenPantalones — 16 days ago
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How do nutrition scientists isolate effects of nutrients and know what mechanisms to pay attention to?

In an ideal world it seems like if we had perfect human body model, health outcome data would be unnecessary (i think?). But peoples descriptions are imperfect. I can look for whatever chemical in food, and find a negative mechanism if i want to shit on it, or find a positive mechanism if i want to praise it. No assessment of how much of that chemical there is, how much it takes to meaningfully move some important metric, no overall assessment of all known health relevant mechanisms.

Edit: effect of nutrients and health impact of foods

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u/RamenPantalones — 16 days ago

What if instead of a varied meal consisting of fruits, veggies, grains, meat, dairy etc all in one meal, you switch food groups every meal?

Like first day
Fruit, then veggies for lunch, then grains for dinner
Next day
Meat and dairy, back to fruits… continue cycle

Or maybe
Fruit and grains, meat and dairy for lunch, veggies for dinner each day

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u/RamenPantalones — 20 days ago

I want to be vegetarian with minimal effort. What are the minimal effort options?

Is there a version of factor75 (allegedly healthy dietitian reviewed microwaveable meals) with more vegeterian/vegan options? How about recipe kits like hello fresh/blue apron?

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u/RamenPantalones — 20 days ago