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@markusl

Hey there. I'd like to gently urge you to reconsider the absolutism of your statement about no favours from salt, sugar, and fat. Just consider leaving room for caveats and nuance and real people's real bodies. I personally have little value for refined sugars, but I RUN on glucose. I have POTS, which requires for me that I mindfully and deliberately add salt to my food and there are times in the middle of a work day when, if I don't have nori around, I'll need to fetch some fast food in order to get my salt up fast. My body needs fats as fuel. I don't function well without a high-fat diet.

Bodies, too, are incredibly diverse. I've taken so much guff in my life from people putting heavy but shallow judgements on my food needs. It's so easy to disregard a muted interoceptive signal from the body asking for what it needs. Even harder when the chorus is so demanding that you act counter to it.

It's really hard for me to separate the sensation of being told that my autistic traits are wrong and bad and toxic from the experience of being told that the foods that serve my body are wrong and bad and toxic. I hope I haven't brought that down too heavily on you, because I do just want to let you know that realities like mine exist.

[Explicitly, I agree that nature is brilliant and clever, and foods in their natural state often contain harmonies within them to help the beneficial elements of other foods be put to use.]

@shiri @ScruffyDux