Today’s post on The Quantified Self shows a correlation (for the author) between butter (vs pork fat) intake and reduced time to perform simple mathematical calculation. He speculates that a temporary downward trend in his performance during the butter period corresponded to an unrelated decrease of omega-3 intake.
Butter Is Brain Food
August 17, 2010
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A Summary of Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
April 12, 2010I’ve finished reading Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories
Criticisms I’ve seen on the web seem to focus on two themes:
- Taubes supports the Atkins diet and other low-carb diets, and since we all know that Dr. Atkins was a quack, Taubes must be too (or at least he must have some hidden agenda).
- Taubes sees Ketosis as a valid physiological condition, whereas many others question whether this causes strain on the liver, brain, or other systems.
With that, here is a chapter-by-chapter summary. If you find it intriguing, I suggest reading the book as there is a lot of evidence and information bundled in there that couldn’t make it out into my short summary.
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I Didn’t Get Sick!
January 31, 2010I caught a cold this weekend. Sort of. Friday, I got really tired in the afternoon and that scratchy back-of-the-sinus feeling that means I am going to get sick. It always means that I am going to be laid out with a cold for the next week. I never get cute little cases of the sniffles; I get nailed with a debilitating disease and it takes me a week to kick the major symptoms every single time.
But not this time. Read the rest of this entry »
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Weight-Loss Calorie Breakdown
January 2, 2010In the 1900′s fat was the evil in our diet, and everything “healthy” was low-fat. Now, more nutrition experts are saying that fats (in general) are ok and carbs are to be avoided like the Bubonic. That’s an interesting area to explore, and one with a lot of depth and subtlety, but I’m not going to do that now.
I am going to share my personal results from the last month, and let you draw your own anecdotal conclusions. Read the rest of this entry »
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