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Yes! I love the first three you have (Baker, Berry, and Chaffee), and have heard of the other two, will have to check out their podcasts.
Anxiety, as a big factor in many people's lives is a new thing. I don't remember that being very common, even just a few decades ago.
What do you think? Historically, was "anxiety", as a mental diagnosis, a big problem? Seems like more and more people are having mental issues - mostly anxiety, depression, OCD, etc.
I'm going to throw out an idea. Anxiety and the other mental disorders that people have - I believe they're caused today primarily by:
- Constant stimulation via phones and other tech - and specifically that crowding out face to face contact with people
- The generally horrible, high sugar, high carb, high processed food diet that we have nowadays. Also avoiding meat, eggs, other animal products, and saturated fat. These were foods that our ancestors knew were very nourishing.
Since I've started the carnivore diet (it'll be a year in a couple months) my mental health and mood has improved significantly. I didn't have major issues before, but in terms of mood I went from being regularly about a 6, on a scale of 1 to 10, to probably a consistent 8.
I just feel much better.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most associative studies like this are trash. Even just looking at the abstract it looks weak (only 1 of 11 risk factors for cardiovascular disease improved?).
It was probably funded by the chocolate industry.
You may want to take a look at the book The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz. She has some outstanding analysis about our current nutritional guidelines and nutritional "science", and how we've gone very far astray.
Here's a post I wrote on the book:
This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz
Here's what I do with those awful resealable packages.
Instead of opening them at the "resealable" end, I cut them open on the OTHER end.
Then to close it, I fold it the bag over a couple times, and use a binder clip (or something like that). It works great, and avoids the frustration of those resealable packages.
To eat it EVEN less often, try this recipe. I used to make my own chocolate (before going carnivore/animal based). It's pretty good, with a definite coconut flavor. You can add things like peanuts/raisins. The chocolate bar molds can be purchased online.
In small metal bowl
50 g coconut oil
1/8 teaspoon salt
30 g cocoa powder
30 g dried milk powder (whole milk, Nido brand)
50 g powdered sugar
Melt coconut oil in a double boiler ( can also just put the metal bowl in a small pot filled with water, so the bowl is touching the boiling water)
In another bowl, measure out the rest of the ingredients, and mix well.
Stir the other ingredients into the melted coconut oil
Pour into chocolate bar molds
Yeah, I can think of three just off the top of my head, that live close by.
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One boy, 18 years old. He's been living at home since graduating from high school, some mild nagging to look for a job, but in any case no real pressure, the parents give lots of resources, to the point of funding all kinds of special meals, nice clothes, etc.
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His 21 year old brother is similar, but the parents have actually been funding an apartment for him. He hasn't been to college nor had a job, ever. I think for the past couple years he's supposedly been working with some friends on a video game, and that enterprise fell apart recently. A girlfriend that (according to the mom) was attracted to him because his parents were funding everything, just left him.
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Another young man, probably 22, graduated from a fairly highly ranked college. He's been living at home for 8 months now, no job, doesn't seem to be looking. I think his degree was in chemistry. Anyway, his degree seemed like it something that was reasonable in terms of job prospects, not underwater basket weaving or anything like that.
I think a part of it is that some parents don't have much of a social life. And so if the kids are halfway pleasant to be around, they don't necessarily push them to go live on their own.
Thanks for the story, very powerful. I'm going to pass it on to a couple people who might learn from it
Loved the book! Thanks for writing it.
QUESTION 1 -
I used to not drink coffee. Then maybe 15 or so years ago (I had read so many stories about how healthy it was) I started drinking coffee.
Now I'm wondering - all these studies, about how great coffee is for your health - were they real? Or were they all manufactured, industry-supported studies? I'm suspicious, now that I know how bad the "science" was/is.
QUESTION 2 - This quote from your book
According to a passage from Robert Samuelson’s The Great Inflation and its Aftermath, the President then directed the US Surgeon General to issue a phony warning about the hazards of cholesterol in eggs. The actual evidence that eggs were unhealthy never existed.
...intrigues me. Did you find any independent evidence of this story, about the President tell the Surgeon General to make up bad health news about eggs? Do you happen to know how the author Robert Samuelson found out about this?
This also makes a LOT more sense after reading this article by Eugyppius. TomK - I believe you're the one who posted it here, right?
Anyway, it was a really interesting read. A few quotes:
The German media industrial complex is truly fanatical when it comes to hating Trump. We are basically conducting a real-world experiment to determine how much media manipulation can achieve when deployed en masse against a low-information, credulous population. My American readers will say that their own media is heavily biased, but German media is vastly, vastly more extreme.
Even that is only a partial picture, because you have to remember that there is no major opposition media in Germany at all. The newsweekly Junge Freiheit, for example – which covers Trump about as sympathetically as Fox News – has a circulation of less than 30,000. It is all wall-to-wall anti-Trump screeching all the time here in the Federal Republic.
It gets easier. And honestly, more fun too. It's a wild ride, try hard to enjoy it while it's happening!
I really, really recommend the book 1-2-3 Magic by Thomas Phelan. Awesome book, quick and straightforward suggestions on how to deal with bad behavior. Not a lot of jargon, and very effective.
Honestly this is by a long shot the best parenting book I ever read.
I love this:
After talking to the teachers, though, I suspect her version of events was perhaps slightly self-serving.
Yeah, I've listened to a few stories like that before! ;-)
What's supposed to incentivize the guardians to do all the work required? It seems like it's considerable. And lots of responsibility.
Are the guardians making money off it?
I used to use Google books, it was amazing, especially for reading out of copyright (pre 1923 or so) older texts.
Last time I looked at it, though, it was very restricted and almost completely unusable.
There's some other sources for these materials that people should know about -
annas-archive.org, zlib.
I have a warning to everyone that thinks they can wait till just before mom or dad or older relatives pass away, to talk to them.
And that's this - people usually experience significant cognitive decline, and/or lack of energy, in the decade before they die. They will likely not be able to have long discussions about family history, their background, anything like that.
I experienced this the hard way. I had an aunt that I spent a lot of time with when I was younger. She had wonderful stories to tell, and was eager to tell them.
I had always thought I would spend some extended time with her at some point in the future, getting her to talk about her past, jotting down notes, maybe even helping her write up up a very basic memoir.
And I actually tried doing that, but it was just a couple years before she died. And she just wasn't capable of putting any energy into it, even with my help. Also her memory wasn't the best anymore.
So - have these talks early!