I seriously don’t understand why you people need to optimize every damn thing. Eat real food and take a walk for maybe an hour a day. Within a year you will have lost a lot of weight. Stop inventing new terms and just eat reasonably instead of eating like pigs FFS.

"you people"

> The study was conducted in Shanghai, China from 3 July 2013 to 14 October 2016

Figuring out and understanding the physiology of different gut bacteria is not just for people trying to shortcut weight loss while still eating unhealthy food or to be sedentary all day.

Eh, the "real food" of Jamie Oliver and Michael Pollan (shop the peripheries) and such isn't very health promoting. So I'll pass and keep eating a mix of fresh food and cheap food that keeps for a long time like legumes. Kthxbai.

Are legumes not "real food"?

To Michael Pollan it seems they aren't worth mentioning right in the first breath when talking about real food, but perhaps an afterthought. "Shop the peripheries" causes them to be lumped in with potato chips and oreos and other stuff that aren't in the peripheries of a supermarket. I don't accept the same real food dichotomy that they do.

Beans are a direct product of plants. I don’t know what you are on about, but I’m sure even the celebrities you take so much stock in consider them “real food”, too. I wouldn’t know, because I have no idea what you’re ranting about.