Yep. There's nothing wrong with sugar. Nothing wrong with meat, or milk. Or fat.
People's lifestyle is wrong where they mostly sit around and do not move much. They overeat, average US citizen consumes 3600kcal daily.
Instead of focusing on the lifestyle, we demonize sugar.
Now, the company that uses sugar goes to play with capitalism and buys a producer of diabetes pills and everyone seems to assume that sugar is bad.
I just cannot understand how you consider something containing 25% sugar harmful. Where exactly did you get that number?
Do you consider meat harmful since it has been shown in (Is Meat Killing Us? jaoa) 1.5 million people metaanalysis that there's a considerable relative risk increase of all-cause mortality?
Every single thing is potentially harmful. You believe that consumption of milk isn't harmful? Cows milk is there to create a bull out of a little baby cow? Should we stop marketing milk for children?
This fear of food is absolutely orthorexic. There's no scientific evidence implying sugar is unhealthy or potentially harmful, and if you consider the pseudoscientific nutrition research as evidence, then you should also be fearful of the meat, eggs and dairy since there's bunch of "evidence" for that too.
If you really find Robert Lustig scaremongering a scientific argument, then do you find the relative increase of meat consumption relevant and scary enough (Is Meat Killing Us? jaoa)?
It is absolutely not necessary to be a scaremongering pseudoscientist to notice that epidemiological result on 1.5 million people implying that meat raises all-mortality risk isn't relevant, despite being published in a relevant science journal. When the data is flawed no statistics wand waving will be able to eliminate the effects of bad lifestyle that most meat eaters have.
I'm a vegan, and I'm probably the best man to enjoy using the result of that study as a perfect health argument, but I'm not silly enough to believe that the result is relevant.
HN doesn't promote a good conversation on the subject of nutrition and diets.
Just take the fact that angry users can downvote me to oblivion or flag my posts which are on topic.
Every time a Guardian subject on demonizing sugar and praising fat or any similar material was posted, my responses, which were sometimes less denouncing than this one, were downvoted or censored.
The majority just likes to believe fadists are saving them, instead of outright misinforming and scaring them into healthier but pseudoscientific lifestyles.
The research on young and successful isn't really showing any causation.
Maybe being young and concentrating on a single thing makes you more obsessed about it? So you end up spending a lot of time on just it.
Maybe the older you get the less obsessed you can be, having the interest spread around on family, work, and other thoughts?
Maybe accumulated knowledge makes you slower at learning and playing because you're more cautious due to the mistakes you made before?
The research showing the decline is really weird. As I've got older I felt I learned stuff much more quickly than when I started college. I know so much that this knowledge allows me to avoid traps. Far sooner I have a feeling of understanding and can demonstrate it to someone else.
If your whole life is oriented on learning and improvement it's weird to think that will slow down.
People, as they age, lose interest in learning and rarely become obsessed about something, for most it is right after highschool, for some after college. No wonder the performance drops and IQ too. No one is using that brain as hard as it was used before.
No it is not. Because it is filled with lies and scaremongering.
HackerNews should promote culture of science and critical thinking and shouldn't be accepting of the fad diets like lchf, paleo, keto and other scaremongering bs.
The reason why people are fat is because they eat more carbs, fat and sugar, not because they eat a particular thing. They also sit a lot, and lie around. Something that can affect your weight and life significantly.
HackerNews is also susceptible to fad diets like paleo, keto and other crap.
They are also susceptible to scaremongering pseudoscience that demonizes sugar and fat and whatever else.
But I guess, so is the majority of people and HN is made out of those people, no matter how much we believed that programmers are rational and scientific.
You are giving us anecdotal advice and advice of an unknown authority that can be questioned.
American diabetes association provides its advice given the vast amount of evidence that high-carb diets work for lowering or eliminating the symptoms of diabetes.
Pretty easy to sift through all that beautiful evidence. The fear of sugar is unfounded. But I guess people would rather live in fear than just eat healthy.
of course, there's evidence that low-carb also works, ketogenic too, and paleo even, and all fad diets alike. that's because they are in many ways healthier than what the diabetes patients had before but that doesn't mean they are objectively superior to diets with all various foods without no restriction.
these diets, unfortunately, very often cause orthorexic tendencies, where people become obsessed with the substances they are consuming, they demonize foods (hamburgers, french fries, sugar, etc.), they think there's something natural, organic, healthy or unhealthy, despite the "fact" all foods are healthy, and only diets can be unhealthy.
Bot can be made where one doesn't have to parse commands.
The author of the article could have collected all the conversations and learned a bot that would correctly converse with people asking similar questions.
there's no reason that having the same question asked in different ways should be a problem.
language is structured. structured learning and prediction exists for more than two decades and just recently there have been very nice improvements to known methods (learning to search, neural networks for structured learning etc.).
one can try to summarize an answer to a question from relevant fetched documents. summarization is a structured prediction task.
for example, in the conversations with a bot, you store all of the questions and your answers.
your answers were formed by using documents that contain the needed information. now you're trying to find a mapping that will successfully fetch the relevant documents for the question, and then summarize all of the documents to as close as possible summarization (summarized text should be similar to your stored answer).
structured prediction techniques use simple methods such as pos tagging and then pruning the dependency parse tree of sentences in document to shorten it, excluding whole sentences or text-between-commas or unneeded-adjectives etc. (these methods are based on statistical machine learning, not some silly rule based technique, one can incorporate word2vec features or other neural network magic)
it's not impossible, given enough data, to build a bot that would interact successfully.
sarcasm, and emotions are still a bit away, mostly because they require knowledge about the world, and if your world is a small set of documents you won't successfully get the sarcasm or emotions. this is also the case with people when they come to a different culture.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of ocean dead zones, habitat destruction, extinction of species and deforestation.
It all comes down to human greed, complacency and conveniency. We all like flesh, we all like speedy travel. If we sought for the long-term we would reduce or abolish the use completely, on our own.
We can bond with horses, pigs, cows, chickens, all sentient animals, some even outsmarting the dogs.
We can't really start with dogs until we acknowledge the fact that sentience deserves our compassion. When we are complacent and seek convenience you won't really see the major recognition, of aliens or worms or other sentient life.
It is a question of how they encode the image. Just like our eyes filter out most of the things and the brain reconstructs the picture, they might send compressed images that are easily reconstructed by their brains, but it takes effort to do it with computers.
Eyes are easier because they take the image and compress it (or maybe they work on compressed sensing :D). Sending images via sonar can be accomplished by a time sequence that might not be equivalent to the representation of image, but to the brains of a whale it can be reconstructed into a coherent one.
And yet again these stuff can be automated with contextual bandits or gaussian processes. Instead of bruteforcing one can just put yet another system to find the parameters for them.
sorry, it is a fad when you put it under a name of keto, or paleo, and try to scientifically prettify it.
funny you should state the following, I practice all three. veganism isn't a diet, it never was. if it killed people to be a vegan it wouldn't fit into the same category as paleo or keto. incomparable.
these kinds of diets promote an unhealthy relationship with food (orthorexia). this is not some mumbo-jumbo divine philosphy, it is orthorexic to avoid any food if you have no health reason to do it.
one can lose weight eating any kind of foods.
avoiding modernity, embracing nature, it's all illogical and unscientific. there's nothing wrong with a hamburger, or a chocolate shake, or apples.
sugar never kills anyone, sugar never makes anyone obese.
it's excessive carbs, fat and sugar that make anyone fat. try eating more calories than you need on paleo, or keto, you'll get fat. now try to eat less calories, be it fast-food be it anything else, you'll lose weight. that's it.
anything more scientific you're stepping into the realm of pseudoscience.
what happens most of the time is that people who had unhealthy relationship with food find a new unhealthy relationship, but a much healthier diet and then think it's the all-cure pure-science, when it's just a fad.
it's unbelievable that this community believes in fad diets (keto, paleo, lchf, atkins, etc.), that it is afraid of food, afraid of sugar.
dang is obviously a low-carb paleo-saved-my-life advocate.
i just checked my posts and a lot of them are flagged.
okay, i'll leave the community.
thanks for loving me.