• @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    I’m a big proponent of enjoying life, rather than trying to extend it as much as possible. I ride a motorcycle in part because it’s cheaper on a day-to-day basis, but also it’s just more fun than being stuck in a car.

    Why would i want to live longer if it meant that I had to give up cheese?

    Yes, things that taste good are usually not good for you. But provided you maintain your physical condition otherwise, why insist on denying yourself all the enjoyment life has to offer?

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      Up voted not because I agree or disagree with your perspective, but because I understand and respect your perspective

    • @[email protected]OP
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      73 months ago

      I have coconut cheese that tastes just as good. That’s a false notion that plant-based food always tastes worse as there are always good and bad options.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          Indeed. It’s very motivated reasoning. But I strongly, very strongly suspect that if you ran a deeply unethical blind taste test, and had vegans sample both plant-based cheeses and milk-based cheeses, even life-long vegans would end up selecting milk-based cheeses as superior based on flavor and texture.

          Can I prove it without running an unethical–and potential dangerous–blind taste test? No.

          OTOH, Impossible hamburgers are very good, and quite close to the flavor and texture of regular hamburger. They’re not quite perfect if you prefer your hamburgers medium rare, but that’s not the way most people eat a hamburger.

      • @[email protected]
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        73 months ago

        I have had it.

        It is not ‘just as good’.

        I have multiple vegan cheeses.

        They’re not bad, but it’s not even close to as good as fresh Wisconsin cheese curds, or an aged Romano Pecorino.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          They’re not bad

          They really are. My comparison is trying multiple vegan restaurants/foods when my kid was allergic to dairy. I’m so happy he grew out of it and cheese is a big reason why. At least with the milk substitutes, while they don’t resemble milk they taste pretty good in their own right. Not cheese though.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          33 months ago

          Well, that’s the great thing about plant-based milks you can make cheese out of oats, almonds and cashews.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      I’m a big proponent of enjoying life

      Me too, about everyone enjoying life, not just humans while others suffer in factory farms and die in gas chambers.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    133 months ago

    Life expectancy by region in 2023:

    1. Monaco (90)

    2. Loma Linda (88)

    3. Hong Kong (85.51)

    4. Japan (84.71)

    5. South Korea (84.33)

    6. French Polynesia (84.07)

    7. Andorra (84.04)

    8. Switzerland (83.95)

    9. Australia (83.92)

    10. Singapore (83.74)

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      Oh look. Yet another list of countries with universal healthcare.

      But no, no, it’s the cheese that’s the problem.

  • SnausagesinaBlanket
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    133 months ago

    Eating more grain is the answer? The same grain that causes inflammation and is loaded with dense carbs?

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Yes. Whole grains have repeatedly been shown to have health benefits. Though you should obviously still avoid eating more calories than your body needs.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        or just eat less carbs and burn more calories because your acetatic acid metabolism works and be more active. then you can simply breath out the calories you dont need.

        biochemistry

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    3 months ago

    A quick look at the study seems to indicate the years added is more like 3 years, but it takes 10 years to kick in.

    **Fig 3. Expected increase in LE for optimizing different food groups with diet changes initiating from various ages between 20 and 80 years of age (left plot). **

    Right plot presents similar estimates with a feasible approach* diet (time to full effect: 10 years).

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    Learned a new word today: Pulses. The edible part of legumes basically. Legumes can include non edible parts.

  • ALERT
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    83 months ago

    no it would not. I would be unhappy those 10 years even if it would.

  • @Worx
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    63 months ago

    I was a vegetarian for environmental reasons, but now I have to start eating meat again? WTF!

  • @[email protected]
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    63 months ago

    Great, 10 more years of sticking a tube up my dick , shitting the bed, and wondering where Delilah is and why she hasn’t come home (I’ve never known anyone named Delilah)

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    23 months ago

    Yeah but they’re the last 10 of your life, which usually means that they’re the shitty, diaper wearing, going senile, not allowed to drive anymore years. I’d rather die younger and at all at once, thanks.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      23 months ago

      That’s is a slippery slope argument as there is no guarantee that the last 10 years of someone’s life is how you describe it.

  • QuizzaciousOtter
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    Somehow I almost stopped eating meat over the past couple years without even trying. I used to eat it a lot but I just started to crave it less and less and now I eat it like once a week maybe. I noticed limiting carbs has a good effect on me, so I don’t eat a lot of them too. But I could not give up diary, it’s like all of my favorite food.