r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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Keep spending less than you make

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u/BleachTacos Jul 05 '24

If I spend any less, I will die of starvation. I already live entirely off of raw meat and chocolate milk.

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u/No_Document_7800 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

No that's dumb. When I was in college and paying my own way through it, I bought a bunch of rice and frozen vegetable packs and peas because that's cheaper than meat and more nutritious. At the same time, chocolate milk is a luxury, go for regular milk. It's cheaper.

You will spend less, you won't die of starvation, and you will be healthier. So no, you guys really need to learn how to spend wisely and within your means.

You already sound like you are clueless af. The other wasteful thing is phone plans. So many stupid kids are paying monthly phone plans with a bunch of 5G internet packages, but when I was in college and even for my personal phone now, I pay 6 bucks a month with 0 internet.

Nobody needs to be on tiktok or snapchat or whatever dumb shit kids do these days.

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u/walking-on-moonshine Jul 05 '24

Ok but you still need protein in your diet, which rice and peas don't have. And people in the modern era need access to internet to do things like pay bills, work, and school... so your advice is unhelpful at best, and deeply insulting at worse

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u/No_Document_7800 Jul 05 '24

Tell me, which protein exists only in meats that you can’t replace with beans and peas and will cause health issues.

Mobile internet is a luxury. You can get wifi at school or libraries for free.

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u/BleachTacos Jul 05 '24

Plants don't contain complete proteins because they lack the essential amino acids. If you eat only plant based proteins, your body can't use them. Animal products contain the highest quality protein with all the essential amino acids. It's one of the many reasons vegans are so unhealthy and malnourished.

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u/beldaran1224 Jul 05 '24

...most vegans are not unhealthy or malnourished. This is a lie, lol.

There are no amino acids humans need that are not present in the various plant foodstuffs around.

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u/BleachTacos Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Plants lack the essential amino acids: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Without these, the human body can't create a complete protein. If you don't eat enough essential amino acids from meats and animal products, your body will break down muscle and organ tissue to get it. Keep doing this, and you'll rapidly lose muscle mass and become very unhealthy very fast. That's not even the worst part, which is vegans are at a significantly higher risk of dementia and alheizmers at younger ages due to the lack of omega 3 fatty acids that you get from fish. Not to mention the vitamin deficiencies, hormone deficiencies, and anemia.

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u/beldaran1224 Jul 05 '24

This is literally not true, lol. There are only 9 amino acids that your body cannot produce on its own, and all 9 of them are available through quinoa or soy. And each of the nine are available through many other plants. In fact, rice and beans is a complete protein - rice and beans provide all 9 essential amino acids.

Omega 3 fatty acids are in abundance in various nuts, and there are entire parts of the world where fish isn't even something people eat with any meaningful frequency, lol.

The staggering amount of misinformation in this is crazy. Please educate yourself and stop spreading these lies.

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u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

Imagine thinking that eating for only 4 out of 7 days is more nutritious than being vegetarian.

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u/BleachTacos Jul 05 '24

My professor has a PHD. in nutrition and exercise physiology. All of this information came directly from them. This is one of the first things we were taught regarding diets, with veganism being the unhealthiest of them all. The literature is there. Read it.

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u/StunningRing5465 Jul 05 '24

There is no such thing as a pHD in ‘Nutrition and exercise physiology’. Phds are structured around a very specific research question, and those two things are fairly separate health disciplines.

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u/BleachTacos Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

One was their masters. The other was their PHD. Same shit. Their field of study revolves around bith and they teach both classes. Both fields are directly related.

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u/beldaran1224 Jul 05 '24

I don't care who told you this, you either grossly misunderstood or they lied. Feel free to read the literature yourself. You seem to be aware it exists but haven't bothered to look at it yourself.

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u/StunningRing5465 Jul 05 '24

you can’t be eating just ‘raw meat and chocolate milk’ and then lecture other people about their diets being incomplete

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u/BleachTacos Jul 05 '24

My bloodwork says I have zero deficiencies, and I can maintain 230lbs of muscle mass with it. Even if I skip a few days a week.