"code" less maybe?
Ask HN: Do you use food as a performance enhancing drug when coding?
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#42Glucose charges the brain, yeah. Take yo lunch breaks. Don't overdose on it though; you'll get a sugar crash later.
Fruit and veggies are good for this. Sprite Zero may be useless or negative. Be wary of white bread, instant noodles, pasta, potato, chocolate, sweets, any fast sugar (surprisingly sugar itself may be okay).
Isomaltulose was invented to be a good form of this but it's similar in impact to fruits.
Re: Ask HN: Do you use food as a performance enhancing drug when coding?
#43It's addiction. The alternative is to suck it up for a while and you'll be able to do it again after a while
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#44What does your normal day to day food look like? Do you eat enough, healthy, varied, etc, or do you think "no time for food, I must work"? Food isn't a "performance enhancing drug", it's food, you eat it because you need to. You seem to have a weird relationship or perception of food if you call binging on a day to be "performance enhancing".
> Food isn't a "performance enhancing drug", it's food, you eat it because you need to It absolutely is, athletes need to have specific diets to maximize their performance for example. And food can certainly raise motivation (or destroy it) depending on how it's used. Both the quantity and quality of food matters. Specific foods also boost brain function, carbs help power through exercize, protein helps build muscle,…
"Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support."
Food is food. Drugs are drugs. That's not to say that a poor diet won't result in suboptimal results, but let's not conflate the two.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Food isn't a "performance enhancing drug", it's food, you eat it because you need to It absolutely is, athletes need to have specific diets to maximize their performance for example. And food can certainly raise motivation (or destroy it) depending on how it's used. Both the quantity and quality of food matters. Specific foods also boost brain function, carbs help power through exercize, protein helps build muscle,…
"Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support." Food is food. Drugs are drugs. That's not to say that a poor diet won't result in suboptimal results, but let's not conflate the two.
Let's not claim specific foods and diets as not being essential for enhanced performance either (as opposed to merely utilitarian for subsistence).
Nobody said food is a drug in the strict sense. It's the "performance enhancing" part which is the focus, as opposed to something you merely "eat it because you need to" as it it's choice, composition, and amount doesn't have major effects on performance on many levels.
Re: Ask HN: Do you use food as a performance enhancing drug when coding?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say your body can fully utilize your lunch, because it needs those nutrients and you're in a depleted state just before you have it. If you want to, you could try a small, but protein heavy/carb light breakfast. That can help boost your metabolism.
My problem is if I start eating I feel I have to go on until I am satisfied. So small breakfasts doesn't work, it often merely triggers my hunger even if it is just egg and bacon. So my solution is just to skip it all together. If food isn't on the agenda my body totally accepts that.
OK, skipping meals isn't that unhealthy in my opinion. In fact, what you describe is a little bit like the Warrior Diet.
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