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BafangFan t1_j54qzww wrote

Diesel and gasoline are both fuels, except diesel has fewer calories and is more resistant to ignition. Therefore you should run your gasoline-engine car on diesel fuel.

https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/saturated-fat-limit-not-justified

>“There is no strong scientific evidence that the current population-wide upper limits on commonly consumed saturated fats in the U.S. will prevent cardiovascular disease or reduce mortality. A continued limit on these fats is therefore not justified.”

Let's stop comparing a food on its saturated fat content. The evidence does not support the Diet-Heart hypothesis that cholesterol causes heart disease.

Saturated fat is least prone to oxidation (and therefore rancidity). The reason why partially hydrogenated vegetable oils were invented was to make those poly-unsaturated fats more saturated, so the foods made with them would be more shelf-stable. PHVOs have been found to be harmful to health, but cis-chain saturated fats have not been.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/04/03/298745563/time-to-relax-the-sodium-guidelines-some-docs-say-not-so-fast

>The study authors also argue that consuming anywhere from about 2,600 milligrams up to almost 5,000 milligrams of sodium per day is associated with more favorable health outcomes (compared with lower or higher consumption.) In other words, the range of what's healthy is a lot broader than what the U.S. government's guidelines advise, the researchers say

>But, he argues, in people with normal blood pressure, "there is no effect, or maybe a small effect of sodium reduction on blood pressure."

>"The good news," Graudal writes in a press release about the study, "is that around 95 percent of the global population already consumes within the range we've found to generate the least instances of mortality and cardiovascular disease."

Let's also stop claiming that less sodium in the diet is inherently better than more sodium (in relation to the previous recommendation of 2300mg of sodium per day). Double that amount has been found to be just as safe. The only people who need to worry about sodium are people with kidney disease - and kidney disease is impacted by carbohydrate intake far more than sodium intake.

My blood pressure barely dropped when I tried eliminating sodium from a whole food diet. But my BP dropped by 10x when I did multi-day fasting (while eating salt and drinking salt water to maintain electrolytes) and tried a no-carb diet (a 20-40 point drop in BP instead of a 2-4 point drop).

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