Today I Learned

It surprised me when I went keto-carn (zero fiber diet), my stools moved easier, than when I was on a high fiber diet.

Butyrate? Is that why it's called butyrate? Manages the rate it comes out of your butt?

I'll bet something near 95% of Americans don't get enough butyrate in their guts, be it from butter or microbes eating fiber.

Butter...? Is that why it's called butter?

Maybe high fiber dose would work good, if the gut's in a healed state, not scarred from extra spiky gluten and lectins and phytates and oxylates and salicylates etc, indigestible proteins, coarse insoluble roughage fibers, not to mention the glyphosate and other herbicides and pesticides and fungicides, and franken-sugars and dyes and preservatives and rancid pufa imbalanced oils and chemical processing residues etc etc etc.

Food companies " yeah we know you fuckers don't get enough fiber, but processing food removes it. So even though yall get like twice the protein ya need HOW ABOUT SOME MORE PROTEIN!!!!!"

Americans "yeah I guess that'll do." fart noises

No shit!

I haven't seen anyone here mention Psyllium husk. I bought 450 capsules on Amazon (ew I know) and it's been a game changer for me. Seriously. I take two a day and that's been enough for me to be comfortable throughout the day, especially while traveling.

https://www.amazon.de/Organic-psyllium-capsules-serving-cultivation/dp/B0D3F62D9M

Beans. I know on Lemmy beans are memes, but beans are how to get enough fiber each day. 2 cups of cooked beans has the total fiber you need for a day, and it's hard to get there without beans.

It takes about 3 -5 cups of cooked veggies to get the fiber that is in one cup of beans. So 1 cup of cooked beans and some greens with supper, a big salad for lunch and oatmeal with raspberries and yogurt for breakfast would get you there. And should leave room calorie wise for some meat and bread or rice or pasta.

My kids make fun of me for making beans for so many meals but delicious, cheap, healthy, they are an ideal food.

SO fucking true. I feel like it's actually impossible to even find foods with enough fiber in them in the first place. I might only get 5% of my daily fiber from a full meal, but at least my Snickers bar has 20g of protein in it for some reason.

We always somehow manage to focus on the wrong things.

Are .gov sources still legitimate? Are we sure this wasn't written by rfk's brain worm?

You can tell when you go out to eat at lots of cheaper places. Order a plate with barely any veggies on it. No, an iceberg lettuce with a fatty dressing on it does not count!

It’s sad that my first reaction was “are we sure we’re posting “scientific” results from the us govt?”, and my second reaction was was “phew, 15 years old so it should be true”

But it is old data and I’d like to know if anything has changed.

• Maybe there’s trends: I eat more vegetables than I did back then although still nowhere near enough.
• Marketing has generated a lot more fiber claims for things like breads and cereals. Is that real? Enough to make a difference?

So for me personally I eat more veggies although still not enough and the bread and cereal I eat talks a lot about fiber. Are there any such trends and are they enough to make any difference?

Not until Kelloggs finally releases Flaming Hot Bran Flakes ^(tm) ^