[HN Gopher] Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health
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Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health
Author : geox
Score : 36 points
Date : 2022-07-04 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| sacrosancty wrote:
| Not having seen the full paper, surely the range of values that
| belong to "optimal" is arbitrary and if measurement error or
| understanding were improved, the optimal range would shrink,
| excluding even more people. So doesn't that make the percentage
| meaningless?
| lisper wrote:
| Exactly right. The claim is absurd on its face because of its
| very form.
| dpeck wrote:
| What's the metric to define that?
|
| This is just the abstract to anyone who doesn't have access to
| the journal.
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| From the Method section, just a few paras in (I just clicked on
| the link provided, I do not subscribe to any journals): We
| assessed proportions of adults with optimal cardiometabolic
| health, based on adiposity, blood glucose, blood lipids, blood
| pressure, and clinical CVD; and optimal, intermediate, and poor
| levels of each component among 55,081 U.S. adults in the
| National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
| mdorazio wrote:
| That doesn't actually explain anything, though. What is
| "optimal" in each of those categories and why is that level
| optimal as opposed to any other one?
| dubswithus wrote:
| I'm one of the 6.8%. Very low LDL. Taking questions.
|
| Bet let's get this out of the way first: I eat a lot of
| carbohydrates.
| cableshaft wrote:
| What's your exercise regimen look like?
| asdfqwertzxcv wrote:
| Whole Food Plant Based and regular exercise, right?
| PainfullyNormal wrote:
| How about seed oils?
| xwdv wrote:
| Do NOT consume seed oils. Go in your pantry and throw away
| anything that lists some kind of seed oil as an ingredient.
| austinjp wrote:
| Why? *
|
| * By which I mean with references. And yes, big farma, etc
| etc, but really, decent studies please.
| MattGaiser wrote:
| Are seed oils some new health trend? I keep seeing people
| mention them in health discussions.
| hirundo wrote:
| There's a lot of evidence that PUFAs are obesogenic and
| diabetogenic. Their consumption increase broadly tracks the
| epidemics of both. E.g.
|
| https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Soybean-Oil-Is-More-
| Ob...
|
| If the effect is real it takes place over decades,
| gradually damaging mitochondria, making it difficult to
| cover with RCTs.
| Entinel wrote:
| "A lot" is a stretch. There is some evidence in mice and
| a few hypothesis but I certaintly wouldn't say "a lot."
| The exception to this I would say is soybean oil. There
| is a decent amount of research pointing in direction that
| soybean oil isn't great.
| rafaelero wrote:
| Added oil should be kept at minimum. It doesn't matter
| the source. But of course this is not the main reason for
| the obesity epidemic; people just like to find easy
| culprits instead of looking at the culture around food in
| the US.
| SamPatt wrote:
| I believe the case against seed oils isn't about them
| causing obesity, but heart disease.
| PainfullyNormal wrote:
| The opposite. https://fireinabottle.net/
| TimedToasts wrote:
| Do you know your FFMI?
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