Mon, Jul-16-18, 23:37
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
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Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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The whole idea of supplements implies a deficient diet.
It's explicit in a few instances like fortified wheat flour and milk for example. Certain dietary ideas are based on de facto deficiency, like bulletproof coffee (add butter) which is said to be beneficial, but in fact can only be beneficial when there isn't enough fat in the diet to begin with. The late Seth Roberts experimented with supplementing with various fats and their effects on his cognitive abilities, he found that certain fats had a positive effect, while others didn't.
A secondary idea of supplements comes from implied poisoning of various bad foods like sugar and processed foods, as a sort of compensation mechanism to balance things out. Another idea of supplements comes straight from yet another idea about diet - a balanced diet. When such a diet isn't as balanced as it should be, supplements bridge the perceived gap.
Finally, supplements can be seen as therapeutic. We have ample experimental and scientific evidence for this, with experiments to treat and cure various medical conditions using high doses of various essentials. Personally, that's how I see supplements and my personal experience gives me ample proof for that view.
So, if I take those study results at face value, I see a very different association. Either their diet is deficient or they're suffering from some chronic medical condition, or both, and supplements merely palliate.
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