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Seth Roberts has died

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Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by moonfern »

geuis wrote: post #2

For those of us who don't know who Seth Roberts is, who is Seth Roberts?

If you're interested in the link between ADHD and food. There's evidence ( sofar all research confirms this and most experiments included double blind tests) that food triggers ADHD. http://peer.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/47/80/60/PDF/PEER_stage2_10...

All those experiments start with a very restricted diet and then they start adding apples, pork.... The restricted diet consists of what is considered safe food. ( A pear for example) Double blind means that nor the participants nor the observers know which of the two groups follows the highly restricted diet. The participants are young children.

Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by yiedyie »

jordanb wrote: post #15
zorbo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive me, but I'm having trouble understanding why his death is significant for a crowd such as Hacker news? I didn't know about him, and I don't mean to talk ill of the dead, but from a quick google it would seem he's mostly just a dietary quack? Even if he wasn't a quack, I still don't really get his relevance.

I guess a lot of people around here subscribe to various "life extension" diet regimes. There are many related posts in any case. I think the OP may be a critic of Mr. Robert's regime posting in a moment of schadenfreude.

Not according to this tweet: https://twitter.com/martharotter/status/460658234307530752

Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by kayoone »

greenmountin wrote: post #28
kayoone wrote: post #18

Tragic and shows that no matter how healthy your lifestyle, life can still end in unexpected ways much too early.

I can't tell if you're being serious or not, so I will note for other readers that there is a lot of irony in saying this about Seth. His most public experiments were the ingestion of large quantities of olive oil for appetite control and daily butter consumption to aid sleep. A more appropriate sentiment might be to salute Seth for his radical health experiments, and the great risks he assumed in performing them on…

my bad, i just glanced over his page and info and figured he was a proponent of a healthy lifestyle.

Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by ElmerPaldritch »

Seth Roberts wasn't a hacker, but he was friends with Aaron Swartz:

http://blog.sethroberts.net/2011/07/22/google-yes-wikipedia-...

Swartz also wrote about Roberts' Shangri-La Diet on his blog, claiming that through it "losing weight has to be one of the easiest things I’ve ever done":

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/losingweight

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Post by theorique »

zorbo wrote: post #11
influx wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Roberts He was well known for self experimentation and writing the book, "The Shangri-La Diet".

Forgive me, but I'm having trouble understanding why his death is significant for a crowd such as Hacker news? I didn't know about him, and I don't mean to talk ill of the dead, but from a quick google it would seem he's mostly just a dietary quack? Even if he wasn't a quack, I still don't really get his relevance.

He was a body hacker / life hacker.

Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by coldtea »

marincounty wrote: post #29
zorbo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive me, but I'm having trouble understanding why his death is significant for a crowd such as Hacker news? I didn't know about him, and I don't mean to talk ill of the dead, but from a quick google it would seem he's mostly just a dietary quack? Even if he wasn't a quack, I still don't really get his relevance.

If you spend a fair amount of time sitting in front of these computers; you should take a slight interest in nutrition. Or, I guess you strap your ipad to your mountian bike when coding? I myself don't feel sitting in front of a computer is healthy. I do try to limit my caloric intake.

What does this has to do with cooky dietary ideas?

Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by me2i81 »

When I first met Seth he was an assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. At the time he wrote all his code in APL, and couldn't figure out why anyone would use anything else. More recently he used R. To everyone calling him "not a hacker," he was hacking on code before a lot of you were born, though his code was mostly for his own purposes.

Re: Seth Roberts has died

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Post by gus_massa »

moonfern wrote: post #31
geuis wrote: post #2

For those of us who don't know who Seth Roberts is, who is Seth Roberts?

If you're interested in the link between ADHD and food. There's evidence ( sofar all research confirms this and most experiments included double blind tests) that food triggers ADHD. http://peer.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/47/80/60/PDF/PEER_stage2_10... All those experiments start with a very restricted diet and then they start adding apples, pork.... The restricted diet consists of what is considered safe food. ( A pear fo…

The article you cite has not a double blind experiment:

> The parents and teachers who filled in the questionnaires could not be blinded as they had to supervise the food intake of the child and knew whether the child was following an elimination diet.

Do you have a reference of a similar article with a double blind test?

Another question: Pears, apples and quinces are very related plants. Why pears are safe and apple not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinae

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