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So you can colour me sceptical about the true value of eating "healthy" or freshly-cooked food.
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…
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…
workout at home just get a pull up bar and some weights and do it at home. You'll save like an extra hour in the process by not having to go to/from the gym.
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Beans have higher protein content by weight than beef.
Most plant-derrived protein sources have an incomplete profile of amino acids. Humans have eight essential amino acids (amino acids that we must get from the diet as we cannot synthesize them) that are plentiful in animal sources and lacking to various degrees in plant sources. Plant sources of protein, even when combined to provide all the essential amino acids, are too heavy in carbohydrate, irritate the gut, and s…
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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…
Junk foods tend to send me off to sleep or procrastinate... the opposite of coffee.
As a note, I love unhealthy food. It’s
delicious and I’m not saying it’s evil.
I’m just saying it’s not a productive
addition to a 14-hour, high stress work
day.
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…
Buying some groceries & cooking a simple meal as described in the article takes me at most half an hour (usually less - a lot less if I still have enough groceries from previous days and I just need to cook it) - which you can probably afford to take & is likely to be good for you anyway (simply taking a half an hour break that is, regardless of the quality of the food).
That of course is a cafeteria type situation.
Like I said, on a smaller scale, catered
meals are a cost-effective doing this on a
smaller scale. Your best bet would probably
be to hire a cook rather than outsourcing
the entire process (eg someone in or just
out of culinary school).
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…
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You support the British National Party? :)
Putting the BNP alongside the US Republican Party is a bit controversial. I'm not sure American politics permits a fair comparison to the BNP (a party that were taken to court before the last general election because their rules essentially didn't permit black people to join) - the Klan are essentially a terrorist/paramilitary organisation. Is there an American Nazi political party?
I rather doubt they have any real influence or electability, though. As bad as the dichotomy in US politics is /now/, there are some levels to which we just can't quite stoop to.
Is 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.
- flour: lets say 200g for €0.10
- cheese: 100g for €0.40
- olive oil: say €0.10
- mushed tomatoes: €0.10
- onion: €0.10
- yeast, salt, water, etc: €0.10
I think I'm being pretty generous here with the amounts and the cost. Total is €1.