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Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by m4wk3r »

btmorex wrote: post #98
m4wk3r wrote: post #48

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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.

I didn't make the original claim, so I don't see why it would be my job to prove or disprove it. That's sort of beside the point though. I'm just tired of the ridiculous amount of misinformation in the diet, nutrition, and exercise fields. It's not like there isn't a long history of claims that are "just common sense" turning out completely wrong ("eating fat makes you fat", "eating high cholesterol food gives you hi…

i'd assumed you were trolling, hence the flippant response. i dont think all statements need to be supported with citations. there's a certain amount of knowledge that at some point has to be considered common sense. wiping your ass is one. not fueling your body with trash is another. i can understand your position of frustration at mis-information and pseudo-science, and appreciate a fellow critical thinker, but i do think it's important to choose your battles, and i do not think that this issue is one that's worth discussing much further, considering the overwhelming amount of data out there. vis a vis. et al. lorem ipsum.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by raphaelb »

patio11 wrote: post #50

Relatedly: 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…

I find just going for a brisk walk in the morning and potentially running while listening to some audio I find positive very helpful. Either stuff like Tony Robbins, technical podcasts, or something to remind me of all I have to be grateful for.

I think a lot of it is the routine or your habits... for example, I know without a shadow of a doubt that I perform better at my work when I take at least 30 minutes in the morning to walk and listen to something positive. More bonus points for taking even 5-10 minutes to meditate. Yet historically my stick-to-it-iv-ness for those activities always seem to go away when presented with the days urgencies or more mindless 'busymaking' like random surfing.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by ladon86 »

patio11 wrote: post #99
petercooper wrote: post #95

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You can do the same contract on yourself but switch the "don't go" to donating to the BNP/Republican Party/similar. A great way to ensure you never give in.

You might not know me as well as you think you do.

You support the British National Party? :)

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by Dylanlacey »

patio11 wrote: post #106
Dylanlacey wrote: post #71

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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.

What about getting someone to change your WoW password unless you exercise 4 out of 7 days?

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by ylem »

1337p337 wrote: post #105
yan wrote: post #91

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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 no…

I also found martial arts to be a great workout! Sparring was a lot of fun (especially against people from different styles) and burned a lot of calories. Now, I play badminton--it's not sparring, but it does move quickly :>

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by lzell »

cletus wrote: post #53

This 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…

> mussels, beef stroganoff, garlic whipped potatoes, green beans, steamed broccoli and a pineapple and blueberry salad

Hm, that sure beats the spinach and cottage cheese I just mixed together and called a "salad". But hey, dinner took 40 seconds. Now a quick check of HN, and back to work I go...

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by chipsy »

jfoutz wrote: post #55
Andys wrote: post #32

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Staying alive is quite different from performing at peak mental fitness.

Do startups require anything remotely near peak mental fitness? It's oft debated here, but i'm pretty sure the consensus is talent and intelligence isn't that big of a deal. it's commitment. To put it another way, how many startups that depend on doing original research get funded? I (perhaps foolishly) believe startups bring technology to the masses, but only after research shows it can be done. I guess another argu…

This is actually a good line of thinking. Although you feel your best and think the clearest when you've kept near-perfect sleep and nutrition hygene, sometimes you need a different bag of emotions to get an idea. That could mean fasting, sleep deprivation, alcohol, caffeine, smoking...

However, not knowing which one is useful to you at any time, it's hard to know which is the most effective for work. But being mostly sober/mostly healthy is known to be the best (long-term) for staying alive and well, and startups are, on a human scale, a long-term game. You don't make $1,000,000 because you stayed up all night to ship.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by chipsy »

Dylanlacey wrote: post #72
kondro wrote: post #51

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Meat contains a complete set of proteins required for our bodies. Vegetables and gains do not (with the exception of quinoa)

True, but having said that, you can make a complete protein, I believe, by mixing a grain and a legume.

But for most people that is also harder to digest. The "sleepy hour" after eating a huge burrito isn't a mystery, it's because you've eaten something that made your body focus only on digestion.

That said, I also know someone with a sensitivity to meat, so there's no one-size-fits-all rule.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by chipsy »

btmorex wrote: post #43
brown9-2 wrote: post #24

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You want evidence that the quality of food you eat affects how you feel and the quality of your brain activity?

I do. Unless you're starving, your brain pretty much only runs only on glucose. That means that whatever you eat, good/bad fresh/packaged, whatever, just gets converted to glucose. Assuming you're getting basic levels of required vitamins, I don't see any reason why one diet would be beneficial over another in terms of brain performance.

Glucose isn't the problem, glucose regulation is. If you eat refined carbs or sugars you get slammed with it all at once, and your body becomes more insulin resistant and fat-generating as a defense mechanism. Meanwhile, you run into the "blood sugar rollercoaster" effect - a high, followed by a crash causing extreme hunger. The blood sugar shenanigans have the side effect of manipulating blood pressure as well, which can make some activities difficult or dangerous.

When you eat fats, proteins and slower-digesting carbs the glucose regulation problem doesn't occur, at least not on the same scale, so your brain and body can perform undistributed for potentially many, many hours. Consequently the only problems come from nutritional content and digestive efficiency.

For elite endurance athletes there is still reason to "carb up" to pump as much glyogen into the muscles as possible, but that isn't most of us, and it isn't something you need for brain work.

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