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For context: I never initiate political conversation at the table. I think it is impolite, and I doubt most of the people at my table even know my political orientation. But this year, fuck it. If anyone brings up Vaccines, I want to be well prepared to ruin Thanksgiving for everyone with facts and logic.

[Edit: I'd also appreciate suggestions for side dishes to bring]

For context: I never initiate political conversation at the table. I think it is impolite, and I doubt most of the people at my table even know my political orientation. But this year, fuck it. If anyone brings up Vaccines, I want to be well prepared to ruin Thanksgiving for everyone with facts and logic. [Edit: I'd also appreciate suggestions for side dishes to bring]

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[–] • 4 pts

I like making mashed cauliflower even more than mashed potatoes,

Instead of potatoes. Use yams. Holy shit they ruined regular potaotes for me. Not the orange sweet potaotes but these

[–] • 2 pts

Potatoes especially sweet ones are pretty bad for you.

Cauliflower is good because we cannot digest it. Long chain twisted bond sugars need more stomachs than we have.

Eat meat

[–] • 2 pts

I eat what my ancestors ate, what scores highly on the protein digestibility as score and what makes me think and lift optimally. It ain't keto. But my diet is meat focused. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Digestibility_Corrected_Amino_Acid_Score#:~:text=Protein%20digestibility-corrected%20amino%20acid,their%20ability%20to%20digest%20it.

So milk, eggs, potatoes and beef for me. Lots of porridge from the last few hundred years, made with milk and salt. 0 issues, hits a spot.

I avoid seed oils and junk food.

[–] • 1 pt

I feel like the whole ancestral diet thing is misinterpreted. Hunter gatherers would have gone through long periods of starvation. They'd be happy to be fat (though not morbidly, in a disabled way), and they were lucky to live to be 40 or 50 so a lot of stuff that matters to us wouldn't have mattered to them. They ate meat when they could get it, and to the extent that they could preserve it. For the most part, they weren't getting meat protein every day. The rest of that sounds like just a good diet, which is great.

[–] • 0 pt

Our ancestors did not eat milk nor potatoes. And definitely not grain.

That shit is toxic.

Diet must be meat based with plants as side dishes

[–] • 0 pt

In terms of insulin production (insulin is the necessary evil for life that makes sugar a poison), potatoes are worse than eating candy or drinking soda. The less insulin your body makes (or takes if you're diabetic), the healthier you will be.

[–] • 0 pt

Humans can live off a diet of potatoes and butter...that's how bad potatoes are for you.

[–] • 0 pt

Backwards mate.

Sugar aka plant causes an emergency response because we have to maintain an narrow ranged amount in our blood or we die.

Insulin is that response.

Over time insulin gets less and less effective until we are labeled diabetic.

[–] • 1 pt

They also have nice foliage, I always sneak sweet potatoes in flower gardens

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

nice hanging plant too

[–] • 1 pt

I hadn't thought about that, I'm going to have to try it come spring.