Comment on Rich ppl live longer

ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Flip side of the studies that show people that eat almonds as a snack live longer.

  Almonds are fucking expensive, yo. If you’re snacking on almonds, you’re doing OK already.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    what? they are fairly cheap for a nut. that’s why they are so ubiquitous.

    most other nuts cost more, excluding peanuts

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      for a nut

      Yeah, this isn’t about comparing almonds vs. pistachios. This is about comparing almonds vs. hot cheetos and takis.

      Which, granted, are closer in price now, but when that study came out and was all over the news, it was just classism wrapped up as some health news. At the time even jerky was about the same price as almonds, and gas stations wouldn’t ever carry almonds. Sunflower seeds, peanuts, corn nuts, jerky.

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    • Lemmine@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ActUalLy: peanuts, although having ‘nuts’ in their name, are botanically speaking legumes from the family fabaceae, like lentils or chickpeas.

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    • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think we should count the costs as including water, low-paid labor, etc. for any product.

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• FundMECFS@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good point, has any good prospective study been done on this? Seems like something that really should be studied with methodology that can prove or disprove causation.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, artificial sweeteners are literally the most studied food in human history. There are a lot of different chemicals involved so I won’t make any sweeping statements, but all of the most popular ones have been proven over and over to be harmless.

    But then things get complicated because the sugar lobby will fund a study where they inject an absolutely insane amount of sweeteners into their blood and it obviously fucks them up. Then they publish a study about how the sweeteners cause all kinds of ailments. But when you actually look into it (nobody does) you realize they injected the equivalent of drinking 100 Liters of soda per day, which obviously nobody does.

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