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Karp: Extreme expected value calculations ruin relationships and personal well-being
“If you take that class to an extreme, or that view of, like, everything's an option you start viewing everything in life with a cost-benefit analysis, including people, including pleasure, including you know, things that are less tangible but are the essence o…”
Karp: Long feedback loops hide the link between diet and metabolic disease
“When you are eating something that's inflammatory, that's not acute poison, but it's a slow poison where over 20 years you will develop metabolic disease. It's too long. It's just like the people that produce too much carbon emissions or, you know, use coal or…”
Karp: Fanatical dietary restrictions harm mental health and degrade physical health
“When you get that fanatical, it starts to take a real toll on your mental health. Which then affects your physical health.”
Karp: Concentrated foods like coffee and chocolate should always be organic
“The second rule is anything you concentrate on, juices, chocolate, coffee, right? Coffee's a concentrate, right? They grind up all the beans, they make a concentrated version, and then water goes through the concentrate, right? Think of what chocolate is. Choc…”
Karp: Cleaning up comfort foods changes dietary habits better than pushing salads
“If I can change people's behavior with the foods that they love, And provide a better option for them, then I can provide kind of a gateway for them to start experimenting with other healthy things, right? You're not getting people who eat McDonald's three day…”
Karp: Corporate food acquirers systematically cheapen ingredients to boost profit margins
“When you buy a food company, which a lot of companies do, they want to increase the shelf life, they want to cheapen the ingredients, which improves their profit margins, and they want to do things that are consistent with improving the bottom line.”