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Your insistence on single-word pithy reductions does not mean my point can be accurately conveyed by single-word pithy reductions. Capitalism is, in part, when people form businesses based on capital contributions. Any definition missing that misses what aligns greed with and dislodges hoarding...

I don't care about your brainworms of Government Intervention Bad, explain how the specific case in question is not a sound capitalist decision. If somebody is selling a product that suppresses demand for yours, what is non-capitalist about developing an addition to your product that counters...

Virtually every economy in history is a hybrid economy to some extent because total homogeneity of trade is completely infeasible. Even the Soviet Union had some price signals and private enterprises, to say nothing of the black market. So you have to isolate the influences on the decision...

And how is that relevant to the arms race between ultra-processed snack food and appetite suppressants?

And in this case that is in fact what's happening, the companies are competing for dietary decisions and are altering their products to drive a higher share. That they do so by opposite mechanisms turning it into an arms race in the customer's body does not make it "not capitalism". The only...

AIUI, the "primitive Yahwism" reconstructions usually consider it an outgrowth of ritual cleanliness and closely-connected classism, as the archaeology generally suggests waste-feeding in settlements was more typical than open-field grazing but this was typical of the (relative) urban poor and...

It doesn't matter because your theories require the more grain-consuming population to be the more obese. That they're "catching up" preserves the disproof of the relationship between grain consumption and obesity being opposite to what your position requires. Given the single data point is the...

How many of your obsessed-over problems "of grain-focused diets" can you find in the sailors of the ship's buscuit and grog days, and how many  more of their dietary problems can be traced to the absence of other things instead of too much of their preservation-requirement-forced staple?

I see you're on the bullshit with equating extremely long-term chronic health problems from metabolic inefficiencies with immediate toxicity of actual poisons again. People don't use "poison" for stuff you have to spectacularly and obviously abuse or take on for decades to see noteworthy...

Your original position was not the complex problem: Your original position was "carbs in themselves bad", all these corollaries are not proving that point. The actual graph shows a lower bound of a straight line at 1.0, meaning non-negligible chance of "mere" potatoes having no effect. The...

These are not the same statement, in any way: Responding to a criticism of the former with the latter is in fact moving goalposts. You keep making these rather dramatic and absolute claims, then hide behind citations several steps removed from them that thereby fail to support the point you...

"Natural part of the human diet" does not apply to grain-growing civilizations. Period. Those plants as grown in the fields did not exist prior. How many food riots can you name being for anything other than grain products? That is why I mention "lowest common denominator", it's the downright...

"Carbs are toxic" with the lowest common denominator foods across most of history which is what "staple food" means being carb-based calorie sources does in fact result in that. I am not letting you move the goalpost from direct carbohydrate toxicity, which is what your statements keep meaning...

If you're going from "they were shot in the head" all the way through the ballistics to a specific shooter, then yes, there are forensic details to elaborate upon. That's the better example, you're insistent on extrapolating a general category in one case to a narrative that large swaths of...

Were you eating direct fruits and vegetables, or were they only in processed packages? Was it demonstrated to be malnutrition, or did you just "feel" better without any test clarifying why? And the reason I'm continuing to dig at this is that your basic premise of "carbs are bad period" makes...

If you replaced its calories with literally anything, even just an occasional fruit, there's a good chance it wasn't that you were eating bread but instead were not eating enough non-bread things. Even if it was from eating bread, there's such a wide variety of metabolic abnormalities cascading...