No, that's what's so surprising. She seems to be extremely rational, empathetic and understanding until you casually mention the word "diet", then all hell breaks loose about "matching foods or else they rot in your stomach to produce infection and...wa wa wo wa wa wo wa ..." :shrug:
Yes, but nutrition has always been a battlefield and will continue to be one, because it is the contact point between health, personal choice, belief, economics, marketing, self-control, there are always new fad diets and controversies that get pumped by tension between researchers and manufacturers e.g. fat, sugar, gluten, vitamins, antioxidants, wheat, aspartame, salt, cholesterol in eggs, hydrogenated fat, and this will go on.
About the personal part, I've got a very good friend who is a super grounded, mild-manered and knowledgeable retired schoolteacher who turns crazy when anyone mentions nutrition and diets, not because she hates the concept, but because she has this set of rules to combine foods to stay healthy, like it's her religion. She's also clearly overweight đ. It's about the need/illusion of self-control and the industry taking advantage of that to sell shit.
The species I'm familiar with, Polistes dominula, is cool: they hang out around noon looking for water sometimes, I splash some and they oblige. Sometimes they hang out where I'm doing stuff and they're calm and move if I gently shove them. They complain a bit when I trim leaves where they happen to be chilling, but fly away. Never stung. They are surprisingly polite and aware of you, plus they eat some pests and polinate stuff. Some other species are assholes, though :/
plus that on top. Epigenetics+psichiatry+nutrition the combination of unholy medical arcane topics that is entwined with sociology and economics, no wonder it's much harder to figure out than cancer.
I like the concept of the lipostat, but I disagree that it will be a purely biochemical model that will explain how it is regulated, because fat accumulation is not just about past and present, it may also be about stress and more generally about the subjective feeling of "how you perceive your future ability to eat to be at risk". It's certainly not just about willpower in general, but about mechanisms different people use to handle frustration, about certain types of depression, even when they have plenty of willpower to do other things.
However, I read somewhere else (can't find the specific article) that Ozempic seems to act as an anti-depressant (some anti-depressants make you lose weight e.g. SSRIs) to cause weight loss. So, hey, maybe it is biochemical :)
really, even Aspirin? But then, how do they design testing to ensure that it's safe long-term? Without a model, all you have is "just test every possibility you can think of and pray".
Cool, rule by the strong and powerful, acquiescence by the weak is a great take by a leftist, but whatever, I don't care, I'm done here, please stop writing.
You: no, nightmares are not real life, you're wrong.
You are my shining star.
You: There are no stars on Earth, you're a moron and I'm dumping you.
Look at this pigsty!
You: This subreddit is not a pigsty, you are an illiterate moron
That athlete is a machine.
You: go learn what a machine is, you'd never make it as an engineer, because I'm in your head and know you didn't intentionally mean to use a metaphor, because I'm full of myself and you're a dumb anon.
The difference between you and me in this respect is that I have no shame in apologizing when wrong, while you not so much. Why am I losing time with this? Because people like me have an interest in having people like you be a little less self-righteous.
How do you do, fellow kids?
Baaaaaa
Mhm, quite.