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Nutritional Insights from Dr. Gil Carvalho: Meat, ApoB, Ketogenic Diets, and More

Nutritional Insights from Dr. Gil Carvalho: Meat, ApoB, Ketogenic Diets, and More

Nutrition is a controversial topic. Recently, the Clearer Thinking podcast host Spencer Greenberg invited Dr Gil Carvalho of Nutrition Made Simple fame to talk about nutrition. Here are some of his insights, paraphrased:   Why are nutritional insights so contested? What is a healthy diet?   Should people concern themselves with getting the ideal fat, protein, and carb ratios?   What are your thoughts on ketogenic-type diets? Is meat healthy or unhealthy? Is saturated fat unhealthy? What about processed meat?…

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Dietary Health Insights from ZOE

Dietary Health Insights from ZOE

The health conscious among us may have come across the Zoe Science and Nutrition channel or podcast. The have recently been inviting experts from various fields in dietary science to discuss their findings and offer practical takeaways to listeners. Below is a summary of some of their insights. This summary will be updated as more videos by Zoe are released.    What does science say about intermittent fasting? There are short term benefits to intermittent fasting (time restricted eating) Consume…

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Recovering from Injury

Recovering from Injury

The global pandemic, lockdowns, and work-from-home directives have been proceeded by the meteoric rise of interest in exercise and sports. Weary from having to stay at home, restless from inactivity, and increasingly aware of the incredible benefits of cardiovascular and muscular exercise and sporting activities, many millions of people around the world have committed themselves to regular physical activity and have sustained their efforts. This phenomenon is not an exception where I live, and this documentary below explores it along…

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How to Call Out Bad Ideas

How to Call Out Bad Ideas

If you have ever been convinced of or swayed by some presentation of information that you later found out was BS, welcome to life. While BS has, in the last several decades, most prominently been spewed forth as corporate jargon or postmodern solipsisms, a new wave of BS now aggravates us and threatens our progress. This new kind of BS hides behind the language of mathematics, statistics, and science to construct an image of veracity.        Whereas old BS looked…

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Eating for Health

Eating for Health

The Current State of Food Affairs The deluge of information and advice on eating well threatens to drown rather than clear the path to a better understanding of diet and nutrition for many who wish to take control of their consumption habits for the sake of their health. It seems that the purported health impact of certain foods, or substances within those foods, changes with the seasons. In addition, many who have tried the latest diet fads have, in the…

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Sleep Even Better

Sleep Even Better

You hear of an amazing breakthrough in the overall treatment of your health problems. This breakthrough enables you to live longer, obtain a greater memory and makes you more creative. In addition, you find it easier to maintain your ideal weight, and you feel less inclined to give in to your unhealthy cravings. Furthermore, it shields you from cancer and dementia, colds and the flu, heart attacks and stroke, and even diabetes. You’ll be happier and more well-adjusted. And it’s…

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Outliving Mean Takers: A Concise Guide

Outliving Mean Takers: A Concise Guide

On Failing to be a Human Being What kind of difficult people do you face most often? Since Professor of Organizational Behaviour Robert Sutton wrote his book The No A-hole Rule in 2007 about how to build workplaces devoid of soul-sucking jerks who make others feel oppressed, demeaned, disrespected, or de-energized, he has been inundated with more than 8000 emails requesting personalised advice on how to deal the a-holes the senders have had to face during the course of their…

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Emotional Intelligence Addendum: The Agents of Change

Emotional Intelligence Addendum: The Agents of Change

If you resonate with this website, it’s a good bet that you’ve read or heard about the marshmallow experiment and what it says about the relationship between the ability to delay gratification (read: willpower) and success. For those who aren’t familiar with the test or would like a refresher. here’s a pick-me-up that includes some fresh updates from replications of the experiment. While the study may be common knowledge to many, the late and great Walter Mischel, who conducted the…

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The Lowdown on Emotional Intelligence

The Lowdown on Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence, like mindfulness meditation in the days of yore and intermittent fasting today, gets bandied about much in the self-improvement literature. While that might fatigue readers like us, it’s not without good reason that these ideas appear to overstay their welcome. People the world over have found themselves embroiled in national emergencies, corporate failures, and familial breakdowns more times than they’d like to count. And, as we shall see, there are good reasons to think that these will continue…

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Make Arguing Great Again

Make Arguing Great Again

  Why We Should Argue   For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate – Margaret Heffernan I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job – Margaret Thatcher   Arguing is hard. We’ve all felt the unpleasantness that intractable disagreements bring into our lives. We like to see arguments as contests featuring a winner and a loser. Furthermore, our likely emotional…

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