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How watered-down dietary guidelines became societal consensus:
Nobody's Taking Away Your Pizza
https://butterbei.de/en/posts/nobodys-taking-your-pizza/
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Dietary Advice as a Toolbox

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it's unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box
https://butterbei.de/en/posts/dietary-advice-as-a-toolbox/
#nutrition #food #Ketosis #Keto #DGE #NutritionalGuidelines #Science

Is it feasible to reject scientific recommendations without being called anti-science?

Sure: If the question that's answered scientifically is irrelevant, the result doesn't matter. Germany's nutritional guidelines provide a perfect example

https://butterbei.de/en/posts/what-does-the-dge-recommend-chapter-1/

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Spoilering chapter 4 of the recently started article series. Prepare accordingly:

New corollary to nutritional guidelines (with steps to derive it from the current ones):

"Drink more Beer or Cola than you eat meat!"

I guess it'll be out in a week. You'll read about it here - but did you know? https://butterbei.de also offers an old-fashioned RSS-Feed, where you'll never miss a new article. (available in English and German)

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"Eat the Rainbow", Part 2

While I wasn't convinced by this recommendation in part 1, I now have to correct myself and am fully backing it now. Of course: For completely different reasons than what usually is communicated though.

https://butterbei.de/en/posts/eat-the-rainbow-part-2/

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Ordering a Coke: normal. Ordering butter instead of potatoes: justify yourself and have the emergency number ready. How watered-down dietary guidelines became societal consensus.

I've just listened to Nutritional Physicists Podcast (german "Ernährungsdocs") and their advice is bizarre: Meat: 2/week, Sweets: 1/DAY - one of them actually has nutrients

Nobody's Taking Away Your Pizza

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https://butterbei.de/en/posts/nobodys-taking-your-pizza/

#nutrition #food #DGE #NutritionalGuidelines #health #edocs

Dietary Advice as a Toolbox:

If all you have is a hammer, make sure your problem is not a thumb

https://butterbei.de/en/posts/dietary-advice-as-a-toolbox/

#nutrition #food #Ketosis #Keto #DGE #NutritionalGuidelines #Science

Balanced dietary recommendations: per week 350g sugar, 300g meat + 1 egg (60g).
If you have an extra dessert just eat more meat to keep it balanced?
If you have more meat, have a chocolate bar for balance... 🫣

https://butterbei.de/en/posts/nobodys-taking-your-pizza/

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Let's get down to (buttered) Brass Tacks:

Compared to the german nutritional society's (DGE) recommendations, I'm eating almost the opposite way, Apparently with good health. And I don't even see it as contradicting them:

https://butterbei.de/en/posts/dge-recommendations/

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