Was interested in how the typical western diet compares to a more optimal diet and came across it
Visualization made using python pywaffle package and Only Office to arrange some elements.
Old-Kaleidoscope1874 on
Can you define “Whole Foods” on the chart?
Takeasmoke on
are you telling me it is optimal to NOT EAT pork?
sir i have to strongly disagree with everything in this picture even if it is not wrong
Thepilli17 on
I’m not gonna lie, but from the feed view I thought it was some India related chart..
brooke360 on
Y’all think I wanna live LONGER in this capitalist hellscape? Nah man, gimme a burger.
spider_monkey on
Why the burger icon (I’m guess that’s what it is) in the first two charts but not the last one? There seems to be no denotation about what it means or if it was just excluded just because.
vinegarstrokes420 on
Intetesting and good presentation of the data! Better defining whole foods would be good though (assuming that’s fruits and vegies).
Seems like the majority of people I know don’t drink milk and have very little dairy in general. Crazy to me as I have a few glasses per day and it’s supposed to be good for you.
Existing-East3345 on
No red meat whatsoever, but some refined food is ideal?
What is the value of each icon?
Why is the middle chart missing one icon?
How did the stray burger escape from its group?
Particular-Mixture95 on
Have fun living to 100 being vegan I’ll live to 90 eating steak and doughnuts while driving a Mazda Miata off a cliff snorting an 8 ball
Gonomed on
Not gonna be able to enjoy most of those 10 years due to the monetary burden it puts on working class folk to be put on such a diet
CoastHealthy9276 on
Sure, but a lifetime of clean eating. Kinda restrictive and less fun.
captainshockazoid on
i cant afford Whole Foods man
Never_Been_Missed on
I don’t want to live another 12 years if I have to eat like that. It would really just be prolonging the torture at that point.
enternationalist on
This really needs more elaboration. Saying “whole foods” and “refined foods” like this is not fundamentally different from someone saying “you need to eat less bad foods and more good foods”.
Also, why do eggs and milk get their own whole category, but every other non-meat food on the planet is hand-waved into three categories at best?
And, of course, the number one issue. Zero fucking citations or sourcing or *real actual information* on the image itself. This presentation is just raw disinformation – all detail has been stripped and the reader can just project whatever they think these categories mean to match their own existing opinions.
Canuckleball on
This is really tough. I’ve been eating more vegetarian based foods for financial and environmental reasons, but if I could shave ten years off of existence I might have to rethink that.
YourTypicalAntihero on
It looks fine which is an improvement over half of the posts here.
Why use 60 icons when you could use more/less for easier to interpret percentages? Why is “better” missing one icon?
Not all of the icons are defined and whole foods seems like too over-arching a category. For example, why are nuts/legumes not just in the whole foods category?
Is this strictly changing the ratios of one’s diet? Did total intake change at all between the diets, because I could see that having a huge impact.
I haven’t read the source yet, but these seem like questions Id expect to be answered by a standalone graphic.
WexMajor82 on
Why would anyone prolong their stay on this hellhole?
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Data taken from PLOS Medicine Journal article [https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889)
Was interested in how the typical western diet compares to a more optimal diet and came across it
Visualization made using python pywaffle package and Only Office to arrange some elements.
Can you define “Whole Foods” on the chart?
are you telling me it is optimal to NOT EAT pork?
sir i have to strongly disagree with everything in this picture even if it is not wrong
I’m not gonna lie, but from the feed view I thought it was some India related chart..
Y’all think I wanna live LONGER in this capitalist hellscape? Nah man, gimme a burger.
Why the burger icon (I’m guess that’s what it is) in the first two charts but not the last one? There seems to be no denotation about what it means or if it was just excluded just because.
Intetesting and good presentation of the data! Better defining whole foods would be good though (assuming that’s fruits and vegies).
Seems like the majority of people I know don’t drink milk and have very little dairy in general. Crazy to me as I have a few glasses per day and it’s supposed to be good for you.
No red meat whatsoever, but some refined food is ideal?
What is the value of each icon?
Why is the middle chart missing one icon?
How did the stray burger escape from its group?
Have fun living to 100 being vegan I’ll live to 90 eating steak and doughnuts while driving a Mazda Miata off a cliff snorting an 8 ball
Not gonna be able to enjoy most of those 10 years due to the monetary burden it puts on working class folk to be put on such a diet
Sure, but a lifetime of clean eating. Kinda restrictive and less fun.
i cant afford Whole Foods man
I don’t want to live another 12 years if I have to eat like that. It would really just be prolonging the torture at that point.
This really needs more elaboration. Saying “whole foods” and “refined foods” like this is not fundamentally different from someone saying “you need to eat less bad foods and more good foods”.
Also, why do eggs and milk get their own whole category, but every other non-meat food on the planet is hand-waved into three categories at best?
And, of course, the number one issue. Zero fucking citations or sourcing or *real actual information* on the image itself. This presentation is just raw disinformation – all detail has been stripped and the reader can just project whatever they think these categories mean to match their own existing opinions.
This is really tough. I’ve been eating more vegetarian based foods for financial and environmental reasons, but if I could shave ten years off of existence I might have to rethink that.
It looks fine which is an improvement over half of the posts here.
Why use 60 icons when you could use more/less for easier to interpret percentages? Why is “better” missing one icon?
Not all of the icons are defined and whole foods seems like too over-arching a category. For example, why are nuts/legumes not just in the whole foods category?
Is this strictly changing the ratios of one’s diet? Did total intake change at all between the diets, because I could see that having a huge impact.
I haven’t read the source yet, but these seem like questions Id expect to be answered by a standalone graphic.
Why would anyone prolong their stay on this hellhole?