Houshalter comments on The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 01 September 2011 06:45:24PM *  10 points [-]

I'm just going to put this here because I was rather annoyed, after the fact, not to have been warned*: Drinking oil straight (which I tried for the first time this morning) is disgusting. It made me want to puke, although fortunately this had worn off by the end of the one-hour window when I wanted to eat. (Also, then I had a perfectly typical lunch which I enjoyed a normal amount and did not feel less motivated to eat than usual.)

*My model of what things are and are not disgusting to eat straight predicted this, but my model of how people talk about diets predicted that if it was in fact that disgusting, it would be a listed drawback of the diet.

Comment author: Houshalter 09 September 2016 08:12:22AM *  0 points [-]

Olive Oil sold in the US is often rancid and low quality. It's possible you just got a bad batch. See this 538 article: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-of-us-are-blissfully-ignorant-about-how-much-rancid-olive-oil-we-use/