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Just like everyone else. But also how would you possibly know?

I was not super serious either. I was referencing Corey Doctorow's recent book, a near future sci-fi

Give it time. It won't be a licence though, it'll be a compatible bread subscription for a discounted toaster, with government enforced felonies for using incompatible bread

*Based on how the software and entertainment industries work

And in Australia doing the same it's "Oy wait up mate, where's your Ocker licence?" Luckily we don't need barbeque licenses, tong licenses, etc. we got away from the UK to escape all that bureaucratic red tape

They talk about how they can eat what they want and not get fat as if being fat is a problem. Talking about fat being a problem is fatphobia. Trying to fit a body image your body can't do is internalised fatphobia. Noticing that nearly no one was fat in 1920, but something like half of us are now, is probably fatphobic. I think accepting a modern diet of processed foods and sugar water drinks is not fatphobic, but suggesting weight loss diets or methods is

What OOP didn't know is that he was getting worse than obese, he was putting on visceral fat which doesn't show much.

Being fat isn't intrinsically unhealthy, but it's pretty hard to be healthy and obese. It's pretty hard to be healthy on a diet of packaged foods and factory made drinks

Or to find a long term way of eating that makes you not obese (and not skinny-fat either). I'm on a zero fibre, zero sugar diet which works well — makes me feel good, though it is pretty extreme and isn't supported by any national dietary guidelines. I have been not obese for over a year and not overweight for a few months

That sounds very fatphobic :/ but really I did it for allergies and health rather than for body image, it just happens to have worked for body image too

Increase your meat (including animal fat) intake, eat eggs.

Your concept of cholesterol is well outdated.

The ancient idea: cholesterol is bad

The old idea: there is low density cholesterol which is bad and high density cholesterol which is good

The current idea: there is low density cholesterol which is returning unloaded high density cholesterol which is good; there is high density cholesterol which is good; there is small dense cholesterol which is bad. That's all really hard to test for, so get a coronary calcium score instead

Cholesterol carries fat around your body for energy. If you eat too much carbohydrate too often you never give your body any chance to use the fat...

(your body burns energy from most dangerous to least: alcohol immediately as it's a literal poison; sugars (the main energy in carbohydrate based food) second as too much will destroy nerves - excess is converted to fat and stored to prevent too high concentrations until or unless that system is broken (type 1 diabetes) or over used (type 2) - ; then fat (excess fat is evacuated via faeces or vomit); then protein (protein tastes bad after you have had enough, so it's hard to overeat))

... and so the cholesterol fails, breaking up and spewing out its load of fat. So the blood test that actually gives useful cholesterol information is high cholesterol with high free fatty acids (FFA) because the FFA is high because of the failed cholesterol

That's a simplified version and isn't quite technically correct, I'm not a scientist in that area so I'm not good at recalling the full detail.

We evolved in an environment where most of the year there was mostly meat to eat, along with whatever perennial plants can be found in winter. In summer for a few weeks whatever fruit grew near you was available.

We haven't had time to adapt to eating grass seeds (wheat, rice, corn, barley, etc). We have only had those in any large amount for 10 000 years which is a blink of an eye evolutionarily. The native Americans of the Great Plains ate only buffalo, eating it fresh during mass kills in summer, and preserving tons of meat and fat as "pemmican" a 50/50 blend of pounded dried meat with melted buffalo fat, sewn into buffalo skins for the rest of the year. When Europeans first saw them they described them as more fine nude than a noble in his finest clothes, tall and built like Adonis. Learning all this I changed to eating only animal products (beef and eggs) and found my health improve incredibly. It helped that I'm allergic to many grasses, including lawn, bamboo, and wheat, and cutting wheat out of my diet, along with all processed foods could only be good

You are correct on excess visceral fat. It'll kill you. Those broken cholesterol molecules - the small dense cholesterol - is the stuff that collides with blood vessel walls and accumulates calcium. Chronic carbohydrate consumption gives you coronary artery disease.

TLDR; too much carbohydrate too often breaks the body's fat transport system making the newly discovered bad cholesterol which causes heart disease

Jimmy Savile really hoped so

I'm glad He's imaginary. I mean I have burnt incense. Didn't realise doing so carried a death penalty according to the Bible. I just thought it smelled nice

Catholic dogma (which pre-dates whatever you follow) says unbaptised babies aren't qualified for heaven, and believers have surreptitiously baptised babies and children of non-Christian background. What good deity punishes or rewards someone for the actions of others?

What good deity punishes people for not reaching an age where they might be baptised? Especially when the dead baby is dead thanks to His ineffable plan

What good deity punishes people born before their invention for not knowing about them?

What good deity punishes people for being born in a country where that deity is unpopular

But I'm sure your version is softened so good people all get heaven.

Judaism says you have to be of one of the Jewish tribes. And that pre-dates all Christianity.

I recall something in his favourite part of the Bible about rich men, camels, eye of a needle and heaven

Anyone surviving in a major western nation and not living on the streets in a place with no welfare is well rich in terms of camels and needle eyes