Are you still eating vegetables? Eating no fiber whatsoever would probably do you in.
And definitely do law carb if all your carbs are sugar …
Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins?
Submitted 5 days ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
blarghly@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean… I wouldn’t do this. But millions live on a similar diet every day (minus the multivitamin). Sugary cereal for breakfast with fruit flavored “juice”, a fried chicken sandwich for lunch (kudos for the chicken, but then its white bread, white flour, soybean oil, and flavored soybean oil) plus a soda, and finally, say, boxed mac and cheese for dinner with a canned margarita to take the edge off.
Day to day, you will adapt and how you feel on the diet will start to feel “normal”. But you will get fat, be at higher risk for any number of health issues in the long term, and will likely feel depressed. But relative to, like, starving to death, you’ll be pretty healthy.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah the lack of fiber will do a lot of damage over time too.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No.
you need proteins. neither skittles nor the vast majority of multivitamins contain proteins. And in any case, the vast majority of “junkfood diets” suck for your health. Usually they’re a gimmick to teach you about caloric intake for weightloss (and maybe some chemistry.)
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
OP didn’t ask about only eating skittles and multivitamins, they asked about replacing “traditional carb sources” with skittles and multivitamins. Meat, eggs or hard cheese are not “traditional carb sources” by any definition.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
wtf. multivitamins are largely a marketing scam, most of that shit will just go out of your body anyway, you are paying for enhanced urine. and skittles? food source? really?
blarghly@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Source on multivitamins being a scam? I’m aware that it is preferrable to get nutrients from whole foods - but also, my bias of “the human body isn’t dumb” says that if you are significantly deficient in iron, and take a multivitamin with iron, your body will try its best to absorb the iron and you’ll be better off than you would be otherwise. Plus, multivitamins are cheap, which is one of the main reasons I’ve heard people advocate for them - a days worth of multivitamin costs pennies, so why the hell not? It’s a good hedge.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
hopkinsmedicine.org/…/is-there-really-any-benefit…
significantly deficient in iron
if you are significantly deficient in anything, then take whatever your doctor recommends. but this idea people have “oh pop a pill a to get some vitamin c and others, you will be healthy” is just marketing.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 5 days ago
Iron ≠ vitamin. You are really pissing out most of the vitamins in vitamin supplements. And when I say most it’s closer to all of it.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And some of them have ridiculous dosages. For example some have up to 10x the recommended maximum daily B12 amount and that can and does cause permanent nerve damage if taken daily for an extended period. My wife caught it early when symptoms hadn’t gotten chronic yet, she was lucky.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My intuition says that I’d wind up having a headache for the rest of my life.
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Over the long term, I suspect the sugar spikes and crashes would cause you to eat a lot more calories/sugar than a normal diet, and likely lead to diabetes.
Multivitamins are useful some a small handful of nutritional deficiencies but wouldn’t come close to rescuing this diet.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 days ago
You’d end up buying your dentist’s boat.
rowinxavier@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Kind of yes, kind of no.
Short term there is not a huge difference between getting sugar from complex carbs or simple carbs and most vitamins and micro nutrients will be OK with a few weeks of worse absorption and slowly lowering levels.
Medium term this would be bad, but so is the standard western diet. Carbs are not a great source for energy for a number of reasons but one of the key ones can be seen with vitamin C. Why do we not have functional pathways for making vitamin C? Our closest relatives do, the other great apes, and almost all other mammals do too. In fact as far as I am aware one of the only other mammals missing the ability to make vitamin C is the guinea pig which is especially ironic considering it was the aminal selected to understand scurvy, an extreme form of vitamin C deficiency.
We don’t need anywhere near the same level of vitamin C if we are not eating sugars, complex or simple. Eating a very very low carb diet, deep into the ketogenic end, reduces the need for vitamin C. Taking someone who has symptoms of scurvy and switching them to a carnivore diet seems to reverse the symptoms fairly promptly and plenty of people eat just meat for decades at a time without developing scurvy, so it seems safe enough.
So if you look at a diet made of highly processed high carb foods like the current standard American diet you would see a measurable but not extreme change in the short to medium term, but in the medium to long term it would get worse. If you compare to a more reasonable diet which doesn’t have huge amounts of processed foods or carbs in it then it would be a bigger difference.
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 5 days ago
Call Liberty
disregardable@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
no, you do in fact need grains and fruits.
j4k3@piefed.world 5 days ago
Peanut M&M’s would be better. Eating small portion sizes and more often is the main thing. Skittles will likely cause digestive issues because of the lack of fiber. How your body responds to all that sugar is also a long term issue, but age is a factor there.
I started my journey from 350 lbs to 190 lbs on Peanut M&M’s, Adderall, and way too much of an internet cafe. I just ate a few when I felt light headed, but was super focused on CS/BF/CoD. I only did that for a month or so after having to move back in with family. Then I started riding bikes a lot, like 400+ mile weeks.
seathru@quokk.au 5 days ago
Ahh, the good old Jenny Crank diet.