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Georgia Ede
Personal blog · diagnosisdiet.comhealthscience
Georgia Ede writes Diagnosis Diet, a personal blog at diagnosisdiet.com about health and science. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
33mentions?
14HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Georgia Ede's diet site as a source in debates on meat, plant-based diets, fiber, cancer claims, micronutrients and mental health. One commenter calls it helpful, another calls an article on it biased.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Psychiatrist Georgia Ede MD provides evidence-based nutrition information and surprising food facts you can use to improve your mental and physical health.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-04-01
- /meat-and-cancer/3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-01-09
- /food/meats/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-16
- /micronutrients-mental-health/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-15
What Hacker News says?
If meat is so carcinogenic, why was cancer so uncommon until the last century or so? We are not eating any more meat now than we did a hundred years ago, yet cancer incidence is skyrocketing. So, why do we believe that meat causes cancer? There have been numerous research studies claiming to tie red meat to cancer (particularly colon cancer), however, these were weak epidemiological studies, and are not representati…
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on “Beyond Meat S-1”Submitted Does Carnitine from Red Meat Cause Heart Disease? as a story · 60 points
HN discussion> there is plenty of evidence as to the negative effects of meat on health - the higher fat intake, for instance, and the increased cancer risk. Please stop mindlessly spreading this nonsense. Meat is perfectly healthy. http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/meats/
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on “Beyond Meat S-1”Submitted Are Vegetables Good for You? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Eating more veggies, on the other hand, yes much better. In what way exactly would "eating more veggies" be much better when meat is already the only nutritionally complete[1] food? [1] http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/meats/#i16
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on “Beyond Meat S-1”Submitted The History of All-Meat Diets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is also untrue. You can live in perfect health on fat and protein alone. Humans can’t make the essential amino acids necessary for making some proteins so we need to eat protein, and there are a number of vitamins that are fat/oil but not water soluble so we need at least some fat but a no carbohydrate diet with sufficient fat is fine as long as you get enough fat. If you only eat lean meat that will be bad for…
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on “Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry”No it isn't [1]. But both processed meat and excessive consumption red meats have been linked to cancer in some studies [2]. This has also been refuted. [3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processed_meat [2] https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/red_meat [3] http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/ Google "meat cancer" for alternative sources.
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on “Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal”> That is insanely bad diet. That's your ill-informed opinion. > Btw, meat causes cancer It does not: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/meats/#i12
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on “People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day”> HackerNews is the last place I’d expect I know that HackerNews has a vegan/ vegetarian bias in the recent years if not all the way back to 2010[1], however fortunately that seems to be changing, as evidenced by the parent comment by QuantumAphid saying "Rice, lentils, beans, all are much less nutrient dense than most animal foods." still at the top of this thread. > a “zero carb” pseudoscience follower Laymen like…
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on “Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week”You won't get to facts via appealing to authority. WHO has been wrong for example in regards to meat and cancer: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/ When you get right down to it, the only plausible evidence to suggest that red meat might be risky to human colon health is contained in two, that’s TWO, human studies, both of which were very small and poorly designed, and therefore unable to give us useful i…
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on “Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week”> Humans [can] obtain all essential nutrients on an entirely plant-based diet You need supplementation on a vegan diet for a reason. Entirely plant-based diets are not nutritionally complete. Even with proper supplementation, bioavailability is extremely low in plants compared to animal foods. https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/full-article/meat https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.80656... https://alep…
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on “'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue”Claims, based on rat/epidemiological studies. [1] - WHO Says Meat Causes Cancer?: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/
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on “The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?”There is vastly more than B12 at stake with vegan diets. https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/micronutrients-mental-health/ Almost by definition it would be weird if vegan diets were not diets full of deficiencies, since they do not partake in wide amounts of food groups eaten for at least millenia. (And we have no record of any vegan societies, though a few vegetarian -ish ones.)
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on “The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?”I see that you, like most of people here, have gulped the vegan propaganda hook, line and sinker. http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
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on “Eating more fruit and vegetables 'improves mental wellbeing'”It is pathetic that HN childishly downvotes you instead of engaging in a fruitful discussion. For an unbiased review of foods, go here: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
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on “Eating more fruit and vegetables 'improves mental wellbeing'”> plant based protein sources are [...] worse than mass-agriculture raised animal products. Plant-based protein is no better, from the health and nutrition context, than animal-based protein. They can even be worse; for example, plant nutrients often suffer from low “bioavailability”—which means that they are hard for us to extract, absorb, and utilize[1]. More on animal protein: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/me…
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on “The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas”You can basically dump all mouse studies, since the standard kibble was something high sugary/starchy. Add fat -> cancer; add more sugar -> cancer...; add more protein -> cancer Epidemiological stuff is flawed as well. Unless the people are kept in a closed ward and every meal is kept under close observation, it's probably not "clean" data. There is hope though... annecdotal evidence seems to point towards unprocess…
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on “Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review”This article is written by a crusader for meat with a clear agenda of being vehemently pro-meat. She supports the keto-diet, which has no real basis in history or science, the person she cites actively disagrees with her dietary suggestions. She cites inflammation and healing as side effects, but doesn't describe what gets inflamed, where it gets inflamed, or how. She also makes a claim that vegans and vegetarianism…
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on “The Brain Needs Animal Fat”Here is the author's personal website if you're interested in more information on the subject. https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/
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on “The Brain Needs Animal Fat”> I do agree that we probably eat more meat that we should, but it does look like they are swinging the other way here. Meat is actually nutritious and healthy. You can read the details in the following link: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/ (I personally am on the carnivore diet).
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on “Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness”>All the research suggests strongly that a diet very high in fiber feeds a healthy guy microbiome which helps resist pathogen invasion and helps create a balanced immune system. References please. There is plenty of research that suggests no such benefit of very high fiber, and plenty of issues. Pulp Fiction: The Truth about Fiber http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/fiber/ Ditto on the claim about a very plant rich di…
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on “What Is the Human Microbiome, Exactly?”I'm not sure I'd trust a food activist to arrive at nutritional truths. I'd rather listen to someone with scientific background: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
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on “Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?”I'm not sure I'd trust a food activist to arrive at nutritional truths. I'd rather listen to someone with scientific background: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
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on “Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?”I found Dr. Ede's website helpful on the subject if anyone else is interested. She also includes a lot of information on other food types as well. http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/meats/
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on “They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929)”Trumpeting to the world that meat causes cancer on the basis of these studies is ridiculously irresponsible and makes a mockery of the WHO. There is ample information to suggest that the WHO’s report is biased, incomplete, and scientifically dishonest. Ref http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/
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on “Does Carnitine from Red Meat Cause Heart Disease?”I appreciate your reply and argument. I concede that conventional wisdom and knowledge is that vegetables, across the board, are healthy and that meat is classified as carnciogenic by renowned national and international institutions. However, I disagree with this premise frankly. A lot of the studies which led to these classifications are poor quality, backwards looking, and rely upon people remembering what they at…
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on “Is Red Meat Healthy? Multiverse Analysis Has Lessons Beyond Meat”Try to look into the science. You may be surprised to discover that there is not single RCT comparing a (fresh-)meat-based versus plant-based diet (eg: not mixing in sugar laden latte in the former). Personally I'm happy that I had never bought into the whole anti-meat propaganda: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/food/meats/
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on “Beyond Meat soars 163% in biggest-popping U.S. IPO since 2000”Guy selling a book sounds like bullshit. A 2017 study finds "no evidence that following a vegetarian diet, semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all-cause mortality." N = 267,180 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28040519/ Broadly speaking, a vegan diet is a diet of deficiencies. (Meta-analysis from oxford) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018…
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on “A Milk Startup Takes on 300M Cows”I was rate-limited yesterday, but you certainly replied so fast you had no chance to read/listen a little bit. The thing is a non-profit. See https://metabolicmind.org/metabolic-therapy-emerging-evidenc... Or a subreddit for keto science https://old.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/search?q=bipolar&restri... The top link https://old.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/10bnaoi/ketoge... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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on “Trouble with Erythritol”
