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Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by necovek »

Nevermark wrote: post #47
necovek wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...exceptionally healthy diet you like too much to require any discipline to stay on. There's no such thing. Eating only 50 avocados a day (so called "superfood") won't get you healthy or make you lose weight. Too much of anything is not healthy. A "healthy diet" is matched up with your body, short- and long-term needs, activities, mental state, etc. I do agree with the suggested approach for achieving anything sig…

> Too much of anything is not healthy. You have lost me. I said a healthy diet you love. So critiquing me as suggesting anything that is not a healthy diet seems odd. A healthy diet can be created many ways, all involve a lot of variety. But it can be convenient too. If you find the right mix (for your own tastes) of “superfoods” as a foundation. I.e. hummus, mixed greens, mixed berries, a mix of nuts, a mix of seeds…

In formal theory, it would be called a proof by contradiction when extended to an extreme.

Even with the "right mix", if you eat 5x the amount your lifestyle and body and mind need, you ain't ever going to lose weight or get to a healthy state. Obese people are (usually) obese because they eat too much, not just because of the type of food they eat. Heck, today both keto and vegan are considered "healthy" and they are on the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to diet choices.

I am basically arguing that, to an extent, it's more important how much you eat, vs what you eat. Again, this is all comparative (eg. eating McDonalds burgers for the rest of your life is "healthy" compared to not eating anything at all, but that's a useless distinction).

Plenty of people in the past have eaten "unhealthy" (white bread, fried meat and vegetables) yet didn't have an obesity or health problem, because they countered that with a balanced activity (physical work) and mental load (shared responsibilities).

So my point is that you should reach that "autopilot" on the amount of the food you get, and then you can be pretty liberal in how you achieve it (obviously, don't have chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner). I do agree getting to the autopilot is where you should put your effort to.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by yqtjnvou »

This is good advice, actually. If you can't perform simple things, how can you do complex ones?

But this also borders on asceticism - the practice of letting go of worldly things, in pursuit of higher learning.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by kranner »

bondarchuk wrote: post #55
physicsguy wrote: post #54

There's a whole trend at the moment called 'raw dogging' (sigh) that means to do something like take a flight with no entertainment, books, phone turned off, etc. etc.

Ah yes, raw dogging.

This kind of linguistic innovation is called a “dysphemism”, apparently. The Wikipedia entry for “dysphemism” was quite enlightening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/style/rawdog-flights-term...

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by Nevermark »

necovek wrote: post #51
Nevermark wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Too much of anything is not healthy. You have lost me. I said a healthy diet you love. So critiquing me as suggesting anything that is not a healthy diet seems odd. A healthy diet can be created many ways, all involve a lot of variety. But it can be convenient too. If you find the right mix (for your own tastes) of “superfoods” as a foundation. I.e. hummus, mixed greens, mixed berries, a mix of nuts, a mix of seeds…

In formal theory, it would be called a proof by contradiction when extended to an extreme. Even with the "right mix", if you eat 5x the amount your lifestyle and body and mind need, you ain't ever going to lose weight or get to a healthy state. Obese people are (usually) obese because they eat too much, not just because of the type of food they eat. Heck, today both keto and vegan are considered "healthy" and they ar…

If you need to eat more, you need to eat more. You need a different mix

There isn’t a diet that works for everyone in both health & physical & psychological diet needs

The point is always making progress. Accumulating foods that work better. So learn and continually try things.

Anyone can make progress, that is beneficial.

I am still making progress, in food quality & convenience, which blows my mind.

And I don’t doubt there are medical and mental issues that need more than a healthy diet intervention

But that doesn’t eliminate the benefits from being healthier, easier.

You don’t know how much eating healthier automatically will impact seemingly independent or counter issues until trying. A sustained changed diet changes our responses to food physically & mentally in significant & positive ways.

My diet has changed me.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by alex_suzuki »

lifthrasiir wrote: post #27
edweis wrote: post #18

Looking at the source code, I have never seen so many files for such a simple HTML page.

I was also quite surprised, and I took a bit of challenge to make it a single file that faithfully reproduces the exact behavior and embeds all dependencies including the web font, besides from Inter which is only used for toasts and barely distinguishable from Arial in this context. It weighs 3,123 bytes without the specifically subsetted font which takes additional 10,433 bytes. https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/…

You have improved nothing.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by koziserek »

card_zero wrote: post #29
bschmidt1 wrote: post #7

Breathing is something you can either do or not do, yet it's also something that happens automatically, such as during sleep or when you're not paying attention to it. When done perfectly correctly, consciously breathing nets the same benefits to the body as unconscious or automatic breathing. You don't really have to spend any mental energy on it to get the oxygen you need (your body will even yawn for you if it nee…

Experimentally, increasing oxygen doesn't reduce how often people yawn. We still don't know why people (or various mammals) yawn.

your body doesn't regulate its functions based on diminishing o2 levels, but raising co2 levels
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