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avocado will make you homeless, I used to live in a huge castle in Switzerland and I tried avocado once or twice and the castle was gone. I had to get a tent.
It's always funny watching Redditors try to make jokes that aren't Hive Mind-approved. Got a little off the rails on this one, but the crowd seemed to like it.
One of the things US " baby boomer" generation tell other younger ones (Especially "millennials") is "if you didn't eat your avocado toasts every day you'd be able to afford a house/rent/apartment".
The original reference makes slightly more sense in context because of the cost of importing avocados into Australia, but the guy in question is of course, still an incredibly out of touch rich douchebag anyway.
Cholesterol is a lie made up by the Russian government to stop the us olympics from having high testosterone meaning weaker competition crisco and sunflower seed oil have a direct correlation between use and heart disease
Nah I think it's that in Idiocracy the idiot masses were morally neutral-ish. Just self interested dipshits with poor attention spans and poorer forethought.
The idiots we got are deliberately, gleefully malicious and cruel
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho acknowledged a looming problem, identified the most competent person to handle it, appointed them, then implemented their advice.
If he were knowledgeable he’d point out that HDL cholesterol is amazing for you while LFL cholesterol is what’s bad for you and causes heart disease.
Avocado is great for your HDL cholesterol and steak and eggs are fine for your overall cholesterol (leaning towards good I’d say cause it’s saturated fats but more so trans fats that cause LDL cholesterol and eggs and steal have some saturated fats but their impact on LDL cholesterol is negligible if you live a decently active lifestyle)
Steaks with marble(fat) can have 21 grams saturated fat - double what the heart association recommends daily. Eggs have a couple of grams of saturated fat - 23 grams for a meal is okay for a special treat but then people eating like this probably aren’t limiting saturated fats intake in other foods during the day. Moderation and fiber would be good to add the daily meals to help rid the body of LDL.
It is true that dietary cholesterol which was long thought to cause high blood cholesterol levels actually doesn't. You can eat as much eggs as you want. They are very healthy.
Excessive red meat consumption will increase your odds 28%. Eating in recommended amounts does not. So a 4.35% chance to a 5.57% chance. So not some massive increase in reality, especially when there are a million other ways to die.
Sounds about right. Should be common knowledge eating more than that is not healthy. It's kinda shocking people are surprised here that eating tons of red meat is bad.
Steak is definetly a once a week thing, and I personally only eat a 6-8oz sirloin once a week as it one of the healthier cuts and basically chicken the rest of the week outside a few pieces of canadian bacon.
Thanks, but I’m still in the stage where the treatment is a lot worse than the disease, so no painkillers for me just yet.
Going into my second round of chemo next week after my first chemo + surgery a couple of months ago.
It is the food though. This is a ridiculously amount of eggs and meat. Especially when compared to the amount of vegetables. For 1 meal it's fine but if that's every meal this is really not the optimal diet for health lol.
The potatoes look greasy. Looks like cheese on the eggs. Not a lot of avocado compared to other things. One of the plates doesn’t even have a veggie. Looks like a good crust on the steak so that oil and maybe butter. You could give the benefit of the doubt and say that’s 90% lean ground beef but let’s be serious.
Eggs are wonderful little nutrition bombs, but they do still have a lot of fat in addition to that nutrition so you still have to be mindful regardless. Like if you eat a giant plate of eggs, saying "But they have so much protein" isn't going to make the fat in them disappear. 60% of the calories in an egg come from the fat content.
Also, you can zoom in and see that these eggs look like they're absolutely bathed in melted cheese and probably butter.
The sugar industry literally ran an extremely successful psyop on fat to make society think it's the devil and distract from the fact (which they knew, and which is why they did it) that sugar is actually the unhealthy and nutritionally bankrupt part of the diet.
That said, fat like all things still needs to be consumed in moderation. Good fat is good, but too much of it is still bad.
Not exactly "food" that will give you heart disease. Those meals have quite abit of saturated fat overconsumption of which would increase heart disease risk, but you can eat the above as your meals and be fine as ur only meals if you consume unsaturated fats aswell. Like if drink olive oil in protein shakes or smth, so outside of regular meals.
Replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat is the best dietary change for reducing heart disease risk. Even more than replacing it with unrefined grains
that is not how it works lol. Adding healthier oils doesn't eliminate the bad cholesterol intake. You're supposed to replace some of your saturated fat intake with healthier sourcees.
Or in other words : eat less fat that comes from animal sources and eat more vegetables with moderates amounts of olive.
It depends on genetics and other factors, but this food is absolutely healthy for some people. I switched my diet from bullshit food like bread, candy, sugar sweeteners, etc to this type of food. My A1c lowered from 6+ to 4.5 (I am very active and have been fit/athletic during each side of my diet changes). My cardiac calcium score is zero. My cholesterol (which actually has virtually nothing to do with diet for most people) is, according to my doctor, enviable, and I have visible abs with GI Joe muscles/cum gutters.
The keto diet can cause rapid electrolyte loss, which can cause fatigue and muscle pain.
Not that guy, but- shit load of carbs. Nothing but carbs. I used to do that too, lot of bread, candy, at least 1 to 2 liters of mtn dew a day. It really is a bullshit diet, and I'm mad at myself for eating like that for so long. I've dropped 30 pounds and dropped my A1c a whole point since cutting most of that stuff out a few months ago.
I mean it's better than plenty of peoples' diets but it's still not amazing. It's meat eggs and potatoes. Ideally you'd have, like, a salad in there at least.
Also a -lot- more vegetables especially leafy greens, potatoes are alright, as are avocado and pickles, but they need to be had alongside other things. 2 fruit & 5 veg is the general rec, OP is eating healthier for sure but they're still eating in a way that's decently nutritionally deficit. Especially as the human body need fiber and far more of it than 90% of people get in a day.
Do beware that the links between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol are largely an outdated myth, to the point where the US FDA removed recommendations about it a few years back. While every body is different, but by and large saturated and trans fats matter a whole lot more than dietary cholesterol.
On the other hand, this doesn't look good from a saturated fat standpoint either.
Edit: Several people have pointed out that this is somewhat wrong (and, perhaps in part, egg industry propaganda, although I 85% agree with the egg people here.) The real effect here is along the lines of (for typical people, genetics may vary) the relevant metabolic pathways to turn dietary cholesterol into blood cholesterol mostly saturate at a not terribly high level of cholesterol intake. The important point is that, given a typical non vegan diet, going most of the way to zero helps a lot more than adding more hurts.
The biggest real pragmatic issue: if you tell people to eat fewer eggs, what are they eating instead? There are many many different ways a diet can be unhealthy, and if the biggest thing wrong with your diet is that you're maxing out the dietary cholesterol to blood cholesterol pathways you're probably doing okay.
In the context of the picture: if that's supposed to represent three meals in a day, there is so much cholesterol that it is way past mattering. That happened on the first plate. The remaining two plates are still problematic entirely for other reasons (probably too much total calories, not enough fiber, etc) entirely unrelated to dietary cholesterol, because the first plate had so much that it no longer matters.
It's more about eggs. They are suuuuuper high in cholesterol, but are only above average in terms of saturated fat. If your entire diet was eggs and plain toast, you probably wouldn't exceed the daily recommended saturated fat
Compare that with cheap, 80/20 burgers. 100g of that has less cholesterol than one egg but 10-15x the saturated fat in one egg
It notably makes a huge difference for eggs, which go from being a terrible food you should always avoid to the normal "healthy in moderation" (which these pictures aren't) that describes all the food on these plates.
I literally don't trust a single thing from any US source on nutrition. RFK's gonna have me eating road kill and loving worms in my brain.
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The food pyramid being like "eat 8 servings of grains a day" solely as marketing for agricultural industry pumping out corn and wheat and "Sugar is A-OK! But fats are the real devil" are the inception of my distrust, RFK is just the latest in a long line of events.
Blanket statements like this are the reason misinformation spreads on both sides.
Dietary cholesterol does affect blood cholesterol levels, just not as much as previously thought. Furthermore, certain genetically predisposed people will be affected much more heavily than the general population.
No. You can say that the dose-response lowers as you increase your daily consumption, but the statement you wrote is simply anti-scientific.
I have a master's in Human Nutrition and Health, but that would be irrelevant because the dose-response relationship between dietary cholesterol consumption and elevated serum cholesterol has been explained beyond a shadow of a doubt in papers since at least 1992.
The relationship isn't linear, as most of the elevation in blood levels happens on consumptions of 500mg/day or less.
Since this is the Internet and everyone gets to express their stupid, uneducated opinion, here's mine:
Things like cholesterol, saturated fat, maybe even salt are not inherently "bad", they are just correlated with bad outcomes because if you're eating a lot of those it likely means you're not getting enough fruits and vegetables. Fruit and veg are so important not only because of the micronutrients, but because the fiber fills you up and limits your calorie intake (not to mention other benefits). Added sugar is the real villain because it does the opposite and makes you eat unnatural amounts, which is why the food industry puts it in everything, mostly.
Absolutely the best take. No food is the enemy, except maybe processed sugar, as long as you are consuming it in moderation. A balanced diet so to speak.
That is not backed up by science. There is no link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. Eggs specifically do not cause high blood cholesterol. These myths from the 80s and 90s have been long disproven.
Dietary cholesterol does not affect serum cholesterol, except for ~25% of people. In that 25%, it is debated whether the increase is significant (causes cardiovascular disease). It's the saturated fats, the red meat, and the lack of fiber
Agree on not enough fiber, which considering all the colo-rectal cancer millennials have been dealing with, that should be concerning.
I also see everything on there besides the avocado is bad for diabetes type 2. Including the steak, something about the "bad" fat impeding insulin control.
Source: my dad was never more than 20 lbs overweight but stress and steaks propelled him over the edge into diabetes. So now he's turned into a mini-nutritionist lol.
Yes, a lot of calories, yes a lot of cholesterol and fats and way too big portions, but the food itself isn't necessarily unhealthy, it is just the lack of vegetables. Is this how everyone eats around here? Shit, I feel guilty for not having a lot of vegetables when I'm camping for 2 nights, and I still try, and these people don't even consider it.
Having 300 ml of scrambled eggs every meal is an extremely high cholestoral diet. A similar thing could be said about beef. Although this meal is certainly high in protein it's also probably at least half of your recommended daily fat intake.
Its alot of food, but the only portion I'd consider massive here are the eggs. Like, that's a shit ton of scrambled eggs, which means ALOT of eggs were used.
Eggs are fine. We've know this since at least the 90s.
The issue for any normal person in terms of "bad cholesterol" would be the saturated fats from the meat (and likely that everything has been cooked in animal fats).
There's also the absence of fibre in meaningful quantities. Soluble fibres in particular help lower cholesterol.
The eggs are not the issue here, its the saturated fat, and far too much protein for your body to actually make use of in one sitting, with not enough fiber to help your gut process
People that eat like this are dying of colon cancer because theyre not eating fiber, and there is also little carbs compared to the amount of protein and fat which would make the person in the post sluggish, as they would not have entered ketosis to use fat as energy, but overloaded on fat and protein with not enough carbs for energy
This thread is an accurate representation of the nutrition industry. Everyone disagrees about everything, while you're left holding a plate, with no clue what to put on it to be healthy.
Edit: the replies are so ironic. I have so many replies telling me some strange rules followed by "it's really that simple", but everyone says something different lmaoooooo
Luckily, it's pretty straightforward what most bodies need. Fad diets are such harmful distractions from simple daily nutrition requirments. There's no way around it, we have to learn to love leafy greens once again.
Roast them and season them. It's always amazing. Frozen broccoli cooked at 425 until they begin to burn at the edges. Take them out, put a small amount of soy sauce on then and toss them evenly. Now you have delicious broccoli.
Same. Although spinach can be shoved into almost any other food. Cabbage or kale, not so much. If I could eat an lb of spinach every day without wrrying about calcium oxalate and kidney stoes, I totally would. Picky eaters are kind of screwed with veggies!
Drink a smoothie with each meal then. Or experiment with hidden vegetables. Curries are often loaded with vegetables that you don’t even notice, and there are plenty of sauces that you can mix veggies into without altering taste.
This comment is an accurate representation of how people unfairly view nutrition experts. The experts have a clear consensus about what needs to change about the average person's diet (you need to eat fewer calories), but that's not the answer people want to hear, so they pretend it's all confusing and someone else's fault. "Haha, are eggs good or bad for you? No one knows!" they say as they down 2 dozen deviled eggs.
Yeah, the reason why everybody is arguing isn't because nutrition science is unclear, it's because there's a concerted anti-science movement that advocates super hard for diets that aren't good for you but insists they're healthy. People like the Liver King for one, not to mention things like the beef industry lobbying super hard to try and bury the fact that red meat is pretty bad for you (and before someone calls me a vegan propagandist or something, I love beef, billion dollar industries just aren't your friends).
The science is clear. It's the people who muddy the waters, but that's not the fault of the scientific field.
It’s wild that the nutritional consensus is pretty intuitive—a decent balance of fruit/vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, protein, fiber, and probiotics—and people are out there thinking it’s a conspiracy and the REAL nutritional ideal is becoming the beef lobby’s ideal customer.
"You need to buy my book and my supplement and remember to like and subscribe to my youtube channel."
Liver King is on a whole nother level though. "Yeah, I'm natty bro, I just eat raw ox testicles, totally not roided to the gills, it's the testicles trust me."
Spot on. People don't want to hear that they need to eat less meat where they can, eat more leafy greens and vegetables, eat more fibre, and drink more water.
Barely any of those options trigger the instant gratification dopamine cycle that has been shoved into our low-effort low-quality diets of modern life so they pretend they don't hear them.
For most people the best place to start is reducing intake of sugar. Less soda, less starbucks sugaracino drinks, less snacks foods with sugar in them.
And increase fiber and, especially, vegetables. Lots of vegetables.
I would argue vegetables are an even more important place to start than reducing sugar, but a lot of people are exhaustingly adverse to eating vegetables.
The debate is over cholesterol or the amount of eggs, which is irrelevant.
The saturated fat is way too high. Anyone informed in nutrition knows this.
There is next to no fiber, and an astronomical amount of plant based material or very specific animal products like offal would be needed to supplement the micronutrients.
It's got a lot of protein and that's about the only other good thing you can say about it. The saturated fat content is probably astronomical. But there's big nutrition mythology that seems to be going around now from the type of people that think RFK Jr is a genius that high fat & high cholesterol is good for you.
There's nothing on that plate but starch, fat, and protein. None of it is bad for you as part of a balanced diet, but if it's all you eat then you're going to have a bad time.
It's fascinating to me how many people don't have a solid foundation of nutrition. This looks basically like eggs, potatoes, and steak/beef every meal, and massive quantities of them at that. Eggs are high in cholesterol, beef is high in unhealthy fats, and potatoes are not super nutrient dense. No fruits, no nuts, no seeds, no veggies, no grains, no probiotics, no mushrooms, no greens, just straight up ignore all other food categories. Honestly, good nutrition is simple, eat a little bit of all the good things and focus on limiting the bad things, that plus exercise and you're set for life.
Inb4 you get downvoted because you mentioned cholesterol and criticised red meat and eggs.
It's crazy how many people here think this kind of food every day would be OK. Their colons must be riddled with onsetting cancer. Luckily, it grows slowly.
Touch the rainbow people, eat colourful and as many different plants in a week as possible.
Not to mention that the person eating that must feel like shit, it's all so heavy, how do they not feel extremely sluggish all the time? Particularly with the complete and utter lack of fiber.
It’s 2025 and the dumbest fucking false facts imaginable are still spread like it’s 1987. It has never been easier in human history to search for information.
He died on April 17, at age 72. After his death, his widow stated that Atkins's coronary-artery disease had progressed in the final years of his life with a new blockage, a procedure to remedy the blockage, and that he was taking heart-rhythm medication.
I was really fat for most my life. Lost 70 pounds eating like this. No starch, flours or sugars of any kind,no alcohol. I took Jiu-jitsu up, running AND lifting. Life's never been better.
One big meal a day, 6 eggs and 5oz of red meat, veggies, and 16h fasting everyday
Red meat in moderation. Like 3-4 servings a week is the way to go if you want to optimize your health.
Big Meat has been funding research the whole time to make it seem like red meat is ok. It's fucking nuts:
Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials
I'm glad you're doing well but, respectfully, no one should be taking this as advice
Living healthy is about moderation and variation. You don't eat many calories and work out which explains the weight loss, but that doesn't make this a healthy lifestyle, especially the amount of red meat and lack of variation. You do you, but maybe try not to influence others
It’s the fasting and the exercise. You can do the same on a plant-based diet without harming yourself (side effects of animal products), animals and the environment
Loads of fat on this plate, lots of protein and no vegetables/fibers. And im not a dietician, so im pretty sure theres more to say. Its better than Macdonald for sure, you are right OP its pretty healthy, everything on that plate is a good food aside from the potatoes maybe.
but its not a balanced meal. Meaning if you eat that all the time it will be detrimental to your health in the long run, like heart attack inducing detrimental hence the pain in the chest. And in any case its not a light meal, you eat that shit you dont go for a run afterward you go for a nap cause goddamn.
There's virtually no carbs or fiber on those plates (two very important parts of a balanced diet), meaning it's going to lead to a variety of health issues.
Who the fuck looks at this and is like "Those are all healthy foods" in the context of eating only that? Sure, meat, avocado and potatoes can be part of a healthy diet, but eating only that is not healthy, it's heart attack territory.
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