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shlomo alon's avatar

The reason chips are worse than potato’s is obviously the fat.

Something about mixing carbs and fat in the same food is likely bad for you.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

Obviously. What could the problem with the fat possibly be?

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shlomo alon's avatar

No clue. Experiment side by side though. Have boiled potatoes and chips for one day. Count calories. Tell me which one you consumed more. Everyone knows you’ll consume more chips.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

And yet, chips have been a staple food of the English, rich and poor, these past one hundred years, but perhaps particularly of the poor, because they are so ridiculously cheap. Without, it seems, any ill effect until quite recently.

Perhaps there has been some recent change in the type of fat the chips are fried in?

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shlomo alon's avatar

Just adding large amounts of fat is not enough to cause obesity. But doing that and a hundred other obesigenic things can.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

> a hundred other obesigenic things

Could be a hundred things. Could be one thing. Why assume a hundred?

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shlomo alon's avatar

Because I believe the body is very good at managing weight. And we haven’t discovered that one thing yet. If one thing existed we would know by now.

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shlomo alon's avatar

Perhaps. Or perhaps you need many things to go wrong to induce obesity. For the most part your body can regulate itself. Only when you do your very best to gain weight you gain weight. But once you gain enough weight it doesn’t disappear.

Obviously this doesn’t include you. But for most people this is true as far as I can tell.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

> Only when you do your very best to gain weight you gain weight.

I think a lot of people manage to gain weight whilst not particularly even trying to.

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shlomo alon's avatar

Except most people’s diet are incredibly bad. People guzzle coke. They are completely sedentary. They binge eat. They add ketchup to their food. They eat zero fiber. They have hundreds of snacks. They add tons of salt.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

https://tuckergoodrich.substack.com/p/does-linoleic-acid-induce-obesity

Search for the word "potato" to see THEM (CONSPIRACY!) lump in "potatoes" with "french fries dripping in seed oils" to come up with the ludicrous conclusion that potatoes are obesogenic if you just squint enough.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

I for one appreciate their consistency. If chips are bad for you, and seed oils are good for you, then potatoes must be bad for you.

Of course one man's modus ponens is another's modus tollens.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Reminds me of a conversation with a waiter, at a semi-fancy restaurant.

Waiter: *brings bread basket*

Me: I don't eat carbs

Waiter: *takes away bread basket, brings... fruit basket*

It makes sense cause carbs are bad and fruit is good, hence fruit doesn't have carbs.

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