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One of the things I've been thinking about as we focus in on PUFAs+BCAAs is Plumpy'nut:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut

It's a peanut paste designed to help extremely malnourished third world children quickly put on weight.

"The ingredients in Plumpy'Nut include 'peanut-based paste, with sugar, vegetable oil and skimmed milk powder, enriched with vitamins and minerals'. Plumpy'Nut is said to be 'surprisingly tasty'".

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Do these poor kids do well or are they spherical at age 10 like an upsetting number of modern western children?

On the other hand, it sounds like it's only used in acute starvation cases, rather than being a long-term staple.

( Patent rows? How on earth is it possible to patent peanut butter? )

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Kind of funny that they just want the kids to "gain weight." Is more fat mass good for you? Especially if it ruins your metabolism. Great find.

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Goodhart's Law. Universal and Pernicious.

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Yea, basically kryptonite. One of the downfalls of the original Paleo diet, IMO - "Eat an abundance of nuts & seeds" they're whole and natural, right?

I did, cause they're keto. Also super hyperphagia inducing.

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Yes I'm conflicted about nuts and seeds. I don't think my own recent ancestors ate much in the way of nuts and seeds, (although there is that neolithic hazlenut-processing factory in Scotland) but I can well imagine that there are human populations that have done well on diets high in nuts.

And nuts contain both PUFAs and protein so that should hurt them in my current favourite model.

If someone can find a group of healthy people who live on lots of PUFA-filled nuts then I think we need to abandon PUFAs as a cause of badness. Unless those people are mysteriously not made fat and ill by the Western diet, in which case bingo.

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