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Nutrition–flavor disconnect: a Twitter thread

This is a Twitter thread copied from Justin Mares . The thread Italians aren't counting calories at all. They eat pasta, cheese, gelato and stay thin. When Americans eat similarly, they get morbidly obese and sick. What on Earth is going on? The flavor-nutrition disconnect, explained— Imho, the "flavor-nutrition disconnect" is the most profound nutrition discovery of our time. For millennia, flavor signaled nutrition. A sweet berry meant energy (sugar!), a bitter leaf meant medicine. Today, these ancient connections are broken. If we look at Northern Italy's obesity rate, it hovers around 8% (America's is 42%). These Italians are feasting on cheese, risotto, and gelato. Then why are American’s so obese? I suspect part of the issue arises from the 1940s. In the 1940s, America enriched flour with B vitamins to fight pellagra. It worked brilliantly as deficiencies vanished overnight. But it severed the ancient link between taste and nutrition that had guided hu...

From atheism to animism: why I returned to believing in the supernatural

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No single belief system can truly comprehend the immense vastness of the cosmos or reality; have an open mind that accommodates a wide range of views and beliefs The infinite vastness of the multiverse means that the divine is also infinitely diverse. There is not one, not a hundred, but an infinite number of deities, divinities, or supernatural entities. They are not limited to a distant heaven; rather, deities live with us, in the same time and space as us material humans. Whether we are at home, at work, or at a holiday, there is a deity looking at us, ensuring that we live normally. Every force or entity that we may interact with has a corresponding deity responsible for it. Also take note, deities may change roles, as in Yato [ Noragami ] migrating from being a god of calamity to being a god of fortune. Deities may or may not have subordinate supernatural entities such as angels or regalia. The "distinction" between the material/natural and the spiritual/supernatural is...