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Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup
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#102This is a tough one but I have several thoughts: 1. Fact is, in your teens and early 20s your body can digest pretty much anything. Eat a bowl of cereal in the morning (and I mean something like oatmeal or raisin bran rather than some sugary crap) and it barely matters what else you eat (other than calorific content); 2. Eating the same thing every day gets real old real fast; 3. There is an investment required in co…
For young people who have nothing in kitchen equipment, this "minimalist kitchen" would be interesting:
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-minimalist-kitchen.htm...
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
right. lets run a case study. go buy yourself a 50lb bag of sugar, a years supply of multivitamins, and report back in a year with how that worked out for you.
> lets run a case study. No, you're making the claim you should already have more evidence to back it up than a snark.
did i just get a "citation needed" response to "junkfood is bad for you"?
it boggles the mind.
as it turns out, happy meals are, in fact, a great replacement for breast milk.
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#104I totally agree with the argument. I totally disagree with the cost estimates. Unless you're actually going to the grocery store every day (and you need to incorporate that into the amount of time involved), vegetables go bad. For example, the amount of cilantro they sell at the grocery store is for a dozen servings of this meal. I just finished throwing out pretty well every ingredient (except the chicken) given in…
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#105Relatedly: I hate, hate, hate going to the gym. However, it is the most productive use of one hour a day I can think of. I have more energy and get more done when I go, and the benefits appear to compound in those months when I'm very consistent about going. (Can one of you guys invent a way for this to suck less? I'll pay you money. At the moment I just give myself EpicWin points for going, trying to trigger the WoW…
Start doing things that are very physical but aren't repetitive or boring. I climb. Gymnastics works. Swimming is great for you. Start running outdoors. If you go to a normal gym, listen to podcasts or good music while you're there, or talk to new people.
Or boxing! I prefer Muay Thai, but any competitive fighting sport is good, and almost any city will have some variety of boxing gym available.
It's a good skill to have in general, but it's difficult to beat in terms of a workout (especially if you go to a gym that doesn't coddle). When I run, sometimes I get lazy and go slowly for a bit. When working the bag, though, I slow down and the guy that runs the gym will notice and yell. Even better, when sparring, if you slow down and get lazy, you will get hit, so you squeeze every ounce of energy out. It's valuable for the mind, too, as it keeps your mind from wandering and forces you to pay attention to what you're doing because if you stop thinking about strategy or recognizing patterns the other fighter is showing, again, you get hit. And it begins to be the most relaxing thing you do, when you go into a room where there is no computer, no cell phone, no distraction, just what you're doing now. (It's also surprising how much strategy goes into hitting people; it broadens the mind.)
I've found that increasing the demands I make on my body causes me to naturally eat better. Your body makes demands; for example a lack of iron may cause you to crave beef. Training made me start drinking more water and less coffee, and fast food started to actually taste bad. It's like turning up the volume on your body's demands, so what is healthy and what tastes good to you start to align.
The first two weeks are the worst, but it's addictive after that.
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#106Relatedly: I hate, hate, hate going to the gym. However, it is the most productive use of one hour a day I can think of. I have more energy and get more done when I go, and the benefits appear to compound in those months when I'm very consistent about going. (Can one of you guys invent a way for this to suck less? I'll pay you money. At the moment I just give myself EpicWin points for going, trying to trigger the WoW…
In all seriousness? Why not enter into a social contract with me. I will repay you a percentage of a lump sum for every time you go to the gym. When you don't go, I'll donate it to the RSPCA instead. Deal?
Money is empirically less effective at motivating me than magic purple pixels. Seriously, the subjective experience of being offered $X00,000 was a lot less fun than most WoW loot upgrades. Offering me $10 of my own money won't get me to go to the gym.
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#107What's wrong with pizza? It's essentially bread + toppings. Bread can be a fine healthy food, and if you pick healthy toppings, you can have a healthy pizza.
I think this would be better advice. First, spend a weekend reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. The take away from that is the healthy eating is a systematic thing, not a matter of individual ingredients.
Second, watch a lot of episodes of "Good Eats" on the Food Network.
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#108Is pizza that bad? I home cook all pizza ($1-$2 per pizza), and it doesn't seem too bad if you look at the ingredients. Pizza + salad seems perfectly healthy. Flour + tomato + cheese + onion + garlic + olive oil + whatever you put on your pizza.
$1-$2 per pizza are you kidding me? I'd like to see the breakdown of that since I make pizza often. Just the cheese costs at least $1-$2 for me.
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#109I like the recipe in the article; it's easy to cook, and it's what I often have for dinner: lightly fried meat and vegetables, although I usually have rice rather than beans. But for things that I plan on heating later, I prefer things that taste as good when heated up later, like borscht and other dense soups, beef stroganoff, curry (I'd sent my Japanese curry recipe to enough people that I put it on github: https://gist.github.com/57898 ).
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#110$4-7 per meal I agree with you and all, and am working hard on eating healthy myself, but do you have any idea how much ramen $7 can buy you? I'm certain there are people out there who would have trouble affording $4-7 per meal & funding the early stages of a company. And don't forget you have to own the facilities to cook properly- ramen can be made in a paper bowl with a $5 water heater or $20 microwave.
You could also buy 20 pounds of sugar - the point is that ramen is actively bad for you and you shouldn't be eating it except in the most dire of circumstances.