So I've started eating more healthy food, and completely cut off junk food like pizzas, because, well, it's not THAT good and makes me feel like shit.
I've noticed something about all that healthier food. A lot of it has a fatty acid in it called omega 3, and sometimes omega 6. These fatty acids are apparently balanced in the body (I'm not a doctor or biologist, so please correct me if I'm wrong) and omega 3 is very useful in preventing heart disease and mental problems later in life, like dementia. Omega 6, however, isn't that good for you (although you need it) and is often excessive in Western food culture.
Nobody mentions the health risks an excessive amount of omega 3 can cause though. And it's baked into nearly everything today, because it's been branded as "healthy as fuck", something that's been proven to be a bad idea repeatedly, especially in the drug industry.
That's the whole point of this thread. Why does society always interpret a nearly experimental and hypothetic statement about a certain diet or drug, whatever, and spins it out of control? There's a total hysteria and abuse as soon as some "professional" or "expert" mentions that product or substance X might, just might be good or bad for condition Y. Suddenly X "saves your life" and "you die if you don't get any" or "it kills you if you eat it".
The Atkins diet for example. It's total bullshit. Sure, you'll lose weight if you skip carbohydrates, and sure, just go ahead and replace it with fat, and we'll dig the morbid remains of your liver and heart out of you when we try to find out what killed you. The designer of that diet had a heart attack, for crying out loud.
And now that diet is getting branded as "it kills you" while other, new diets, are branded as "healthy as fuck", but most will probably suffer the same fate as the one mentioned above.
I don't really care, as I pretty much get what you're supposed to eat and what not to eat, but wow, I guess I'm just asking people to be sensible here. That might be impossible though, because of one or a combination of the following:
-stupid, gullible people
-the media
-money-hungry "experts"
-herd mentality
I've noticed something about all that healthier food. A lot of it has a fatty acid in it called omega 3, and sometimes omega 6. These fatty acids are apparently balanced in the body (I'm not a doctor or biologist, so please correct me if I'm wrong) and omega 3 is very useful in preventing heart disease and mental problems later in life, like dementia. Omega 6, however, isn't that good for you (although you need it) and is often excessive in Western food culture.
Nobody mentions the health risks an excessive amount of omega 3 can cause though. And it's baked into nearly everything today, because it's been branded as "healthy as fuck", something that's been proven to be a bad idea repeatedly, especially in the drug industry.
That's the whole point of this thread. Why does society always interpret a nearly experimental and hypothetic statement about a certain diet or drug, whatever, and spins it out of control? There's a total hysteria and abuse as soon as some "professional" or "expert" mentions that product or substance X might, just might be good or bad for condition Y. Suddenly X "saves your life" and "you die if you don't get any" or "it kills you if you eat it".
The Atkins diet for example. It's total bullshit. Sure, you'll lose weight if you skip carbohydrates, and sure, just go ahead and replace it with fat, and we'll dig the morbid remains of your liver and heart out of you when we try to find out what killed you. The designer of that diet had a heart attack, for crying out loud.
And now that diet is getting branded as "it kills you" while other, new diets, are branded as "healthy as fuck", but most will probably suffer the same fate as the one mentioned above.
I don't really care, as I pretty much get what you're supposed to eat and what not to eat, but wow, I guess I'm just asking people to be sensible here. That might be impossible though, because of one or a combination of the following:
-stupid, gullible people
-the media
-money-hungry "experts"
-herd mentality
