[b4je7d7wb]

Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool?

I think nutrition is one of the earliest things you figure out that it depends and nobody really knows what their talking about. My mother and wife have a lot of opinions about nutrition that are obviously unscientific, situational and anecdotal.

> Lifetime of avoiding fat... exactly opposite of what I should have been doing...

There is more nuance involved. What kind of fat? What kind of diet? Calorie surplus? What about salt? What kind of metabolism do you have?

It is just impossible to make blanket statements like eat fat, do not eat fat, eat sugar, do not eat sugar. It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do.

[rajamaka]

> Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool?

That's the problem, we were taught this in highschool:

https://www.disabled-world.com/pics/1/old-food-pyramid.jpg

Eat low amounts of natural fat, eat large amount of grain and cereal to be healthy. It was taught to us in a blanket one size fits all methodology

[twawaaay]

> It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do.

Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own?

How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

[prirun]

> Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

1. To "educate" / program you on what to buy to sustain the rest of your life, eg, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Which is true if you are a cereal company:

https://www.successstudiopt.com/blog/is-breakfast-really-the...

2. People have arteries clogged with cholesterol. This is bad. Cholesterol is in eggs. Therefore eggs cause cholesterol build-up in the arteries and should be avoided. Eat cereal instead. This has been completely debunked.

Etc.

Does the education system teach kids about debt, why it's so bad, how to avoid it, ways it will sneak up and fuck you over (ARM, variable-rate credit card interest, ...)? Not when I went to school. There was no class on managing money in my entire 12 years of "education". Just another thing to figure out on your own, hopefully after many mistakes that enrich large corporations.

[JimtheCoder]

"How is nutrition different from math or grammar?"

Well, because 1 + 1 = 2, all the time, and the optimal diet is different for everyone?

[joshspankit]

Things are different but there are fairly universal rules. Math was not a favourable comparison. Science and the social studies probably fit more.

[dgfitz]

Because 1 plus 1 is an optimal problem? You’re conflating apples and macronutrients. This is analogous to fake news.

[joshspankit]

Agree. This is part of why we need educational reform.

Currently in North America, school is optimized to solve two main problems:

1. Create citizens who work well in companies (sadly these are industrial-era: show up on time, parrot back what is told to you, be the same as everyone else)

2. Babysitting parents who are currently working for companies (this was especially obvious in Ontario’s approach to the pandemic).

If we optimized for population health/wealth things would look a lot different (and from the outside it looks like some private schools in America are already there).

[joshspankit]

*Babysitting for parents

[mrleinad]

Because it raises the minimum level for everyone, and even if you're DaVinci, it's good for you that society is not full of cavemen trying to build everything from scratch.

[cplusplusfellow]

The cultural avoidance of fat, which likely has led to 2-3 digit increases in obesity in America, is not based on nuance.

I think OP can be forgiven for not pre-nuancing it for you.