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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Ah, no, just giving a glimpse of my own very subjective perspective, based on a relationship where the language of gratitude was decidedly a one-sided affair: neither appreciated nor reciprocated by the other.

    I obviously don’t know your situation, knew even less before you mentioned ten years, and know less still about the situation of other people reading this conversation, so this was a general comment. We can sometimes miss the fact that other people have completely different interpretations of things that seem almost axiomatic to us.





  • Ok, so, regarding these ideas:

    • “it has not been revealed enough how damaging sugar is” – I would agree with this. I’m not sure that was his intention in particular.
    • Ancel (intentionally?) overlooked some data when forming his theory – I would agree with this too. But it doesn’t make the harm of cholesterol moot. Or do you now want to ignore the other data yourself? It just makes the situation more complex than simply “fat alone is bad”. Too much fat is still bad.

    He made a step, perhaps a bit too long in a mistaken direction, but understanding didn’t and won’t stop with him. How everyone reacted to his theory was also part of the fault.





  • “Retribution” is a common false friend (faux ami) in English-Spanish translation, where English speakers might mistakenly use retribución to mean punishment, whereas retribución actually means compensation, payment, or remuneration.

    And Spanish is not the only language where “retribution” means remuneration. English is the weird one here.