@sushi_is_cringe pineapple is one of my favorite go tos. I don't worry much about citric acid bc canned or fresh pineapple is peak fruit.

@mayishima isn't it called baking soda?

@polba

A lot of dog food pouches don't contain carrageenan now and they make a point of saying it.
Can you imagine - canine IBS is more important to BIG FOOD than long term health impacts on humans?

@peatlegal

going to follow up my last post noting:

I've since tried regular raw carrots. Generally felt good eating baby carrots or a regular carrot raw in between meals or at lunch time. I used to eat these with lots of salt and/or fruit as a child.

My issue is that "shaved carrot" only "works" if one does not chew the carrot! The carrot is going to be chewed. Only the weakest jaw would allow strands of carrot to be swallowed. Point being I think chunky carrot is good. To me, the oil and vinegar is not so important. I think it's just a good additional fiber that can be added to a lunch or as a snack and not necessarily every day.

@Insr

Right and anyone eating Peaty is essentially required to eat calcium and dairy. Why would anyone supplement iodine when we're already eating too much of it?

@lobotomize-me
install more RAM or get a bigger processor.

Isn't Iodine all throughout the food supply? Most salts are iodized now. Not sure about the salt used in processed foods. One can read online:

An eight-ounce serving of nonfat cow’s milk contains 85 mcg of iodine, more than half of what you need daily.

In other words, daily amount is 140 mcg. Two glasses of non-fat milk should in theory supply this.

Is there something I'm missing? Is iodine content actually lower in milk and dairy products? Isn't the issue iodine-excess?

@gg12

Not to get too "new age-y" but at a material level, there is unity. Even the Trinity appears to be a way of saying that opposition or dualism exists within a third "something" of space and time. When I began learning about how Church theology is Aristotle and Augustine (and ultimately Plato) - Jewish, Egyptian, Babylonian, and other myths and stories aside - I saw a big problem interpreting scripture literally which is what basically everyone does.

Anyways, if it's an end it's also a beginning. What was becomes what is. Death becomes things and people and animals, but the living absorb those absences and transformations too. We could reject and deny death. The book "Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker makes the argument that that's what we do in order to live. I haven't read it entirely but it discusses self vs body, things like this. He mentions how the dread of death may be serving a function that is not concerned with the literal reality. That would have some biological and symbolic implications. From Ernest Jones' biography of Freud, Becker quotes:

Freud always faced with complete courage any real danger to his life, which proves that the neurotic dread of dying must have had some other meaning than the literal one.

Anyways, I don't know. Some of these figures are heroic. When you read about martyrs they seem to want to die - whether Christians, Muslim, etc. They seem to be bent on reward in the afterlife or on their unworthiness in this life. But that seems to be a distraction from the dread of the idea of death, which is why I think the "reward" of heroes, soldiers, brave people, is also something about having fulfilled this life in the very act of dying, simplifying it. The way so many people say "die for this country," it's implied that serving is dying and that for this cause or that cause may not align with everyone's idea of a just cause of war and a Good or moral death. The idea of accidental deaths or overdoses or compromising deaths makes us cringe at how we live. There are tragic deaths and peaceful deaths but everything is dying... and being born. Jonah in the Whale is the Sun being reborn. The birth (resurrection) is the three-day period when the Sun is at its lowest before slowly rising after the winter solstice. The spring equinox is the correct New Year from ancient times. Sometimes it's good to dwell on the idea that you might be struck down tomorrow, and get your affairs in order.

I think about death every day and in different ways, maybe not consciously. Weird how "born again" Christians rely on the birth concept when birth is also the opposite of death... so Puritans or harsh sects might be the opposite, preaching death and mortification of the flesh.

@peatyRD sounds like it.
Buteyko or periodic breathing techniques, EFD or getting a break and going outside.

@peatyRD
hmm. I've actually had a heavy head lately. To me it feels like a direct consequence of restraint of language, feeling anger, and lack of personal space.
I wonder if you feel crowded or lack personal space? In the past I've worked in open office plans and it was awful - the strain required to think and drown out noise, plus the feeling of exposure and lack of personal space. I don't know, just throwing out ideas that may help.