#micronutris

[3liza]

incredible to me that in the age of spending minimum $100 for groceries for one person every three weeks where i live, people are still online like "dairy is bad for you because it has a lot of calories". at this point im calculating calories per dollar at the grocery store and youre still stuck in "fat bad" mindset from 1980. you are an absurd person to me. laughable

[nourishcolourwellness]

[bonefall]

are amphibians like newts and frogs considered aquatic? i know crustaceans & mollusks would be

Yes they are! Generally, the more time it spends on land, the closer it will be to 5 calories than 4. The estimate was actually based on frogs and tadpoles, I had to make an educated guess.

My best source was a feeding chart from a reptile food website which sells whole small prey for consumption by snakes. It perfectly lists out the values of dozens of small animals, but no fish. So I took a note of the 4 calorie estimate, observed that an adult frog increases in calories compared to tadpoles (bucking the trend with the others on the list where younger animals are worth more caloric value) and went on to do more research

I couldn't find a source that broke down WHOLE prey caloric value like the chart, so I ended up comparing caloric value between rabbit fillets, chicken fillets, and fish fillets on human-centric nutrition websites. My hypothesis was mostly consistent, even with more species added. Fish (perch, flounder, pike) < Wild Mammal (rabbit, squirrel) < Poultry (chicken, turkey, quail). There was overlap between "classes", certain fish getting over the 100 hump, but generally there was a trend I boiled down into 4/5/6

This is consistent with how a lot of fish meat is actually water. In fact, cats quench a lot of their thirst from the food they eat. I also learned some very interesting stuff about the fat distribution in fish which is going to blow a bit of a hole in some of my Clan culture stuff lmaoooo, but I'll furiously swim across that obliterated bridge when I get there

But funfact! Fish oil is rendered fish fats and it is the form that unsaturated fat takes, whereas lard is what saturated fats become. I need to do more research into this topic to understand what kind of difference it would make in a wild cat's diet.

There was one big bucked trend though: salmonid meat was WAAAAY higher in fat and calories. Like, absurdly high. Like 150 cal trout fillet vs 110 cal of rabbit fillet vs 88 cal of perch fillet.

I do not know why that is. My guess is that maybe it's because they were taking the number from farmed salmonids? Maybe it's because they're particularly fatty fish? Perhaps this is just the raw power of salmon slammin'.

Anyway, at one point I was trying to estimate exact caloric value per popular prey species, but decided I didn't have the "backing" to get so exact with the numbers since I was doing estimates with the fish. I'll do the work if it comes down to it, but for now, 4/5/6 is a quick, easy guideline you can use for just about any WC project.

[retoxx]

i feel like when i started farming a "beginning farmer" was defined as less than 5 years of experience and i was like damn thats a long time and now that i've been doing it longer than 5 years all these grants define beginning farmer as less than 10 years experience.... i'm like are they gonna keep upping the number will i always be beginning

[maretriarch]

turns out how not to be deficient in fat in your diet is to stop eating only low fat versions of foods

[bilaudad]

for some reason i always think i can just outsmart by bodily needs and functions, and there’s no earthly reason for my mood or energy or supply/lack of motivation. and then i eat something with protein, and i suddenly go from just barely treading water to looking forward to what i’m going to accomplish in the second half of the day.

[jaspertjunk]

i swear i made a post identical to this a couple months ago but i have GOT to find some horror movies once i have more time to watch movies. i used to have my dad and my best friend at the time reccomend me horror movies but my dad likes slashers (good, but not scary) and my best friend at the time liked artsy a24 psychological type shit (good, but too heavy to watch on a very regular basis. i have to pace myself) and there HAS to be a middle ground. please. pleage.

[sevens-evan]

the humble banana…the most economical of fruits

[nourishcolourwellness]

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[marcomarconii]

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[eatclean-bewhole]

You’re only as healthy as your cells. That is great if you are aware of your calorie and macronutrient intake, but don’t let that be your sole focus. Your micronutrients (vitamins & minerals) is what feeds your cells information and writes your body’s blueprint for health or disease. Your health starts on a cellular level. I would take it even further and say it starts with your mental health, but that’s a conversation for another day.

[thahxa]

tumblr poast voice people frequently starve themselves for aesthetic benefits and this makes other people either competed against or disgusted. thus, the large quantity of arguments against not starving yourself for aesthetic reasons

[thekidsarentalright]

love autism bc it will make me do things like stay up till 4am writing peterick smut and yet i am physically incapable of doing any assignments till the day theyre due <3

[cascadianights]

I have decided that eating all the weeds in my yard will restore my gut flora and health somehow and I will not be dissuaded from this

[zombolouge]

also your body doesn't necessarily work on a daily cycle, it's not so neat as to understand linear time and how we choose to divide it. You don't have to try and find perfect balance every single day, sometimes you will go three or four days eating less or eating more. Sometimes you will crave fats or salts or sugars or greens for a few days at a time before your body will decide it's gathered enough resources in one particular department. The balance is achieved over time and in uneven tides, and that's good and fine.

How people can mistakenly think or just subconsciously feel food works: there are “unhealthy” foods like pizza or fried chicken and “healthy” foods like fruit salad or steamed vegetables. Every time you eat an “unhealthy” food you’ve harmed yourself in some way.

How food actually works: foods contain carbs, proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins, minerals, fiber and/or other nutrients. Your body needs and uses all of them but it would like to have a little of everything every day. If you ate pizza or fried chicken for lunch then that’s probably your fat and protein for the day with extra that your body will make use of in time, so it’s a good idea to make your next meal something different like that fruit salad or steamed veggies. You can have that fatty lunch every single day if you just maintain balance and stay active enough to actually use what you’re stocking up on because foods aren’t “good or bad;” they just either fit into the rest of your diet and lifestyle or they don’t.