Comments on: all diets are delusional, some are more entertainingly delusional

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:19:06 +0000

@Cait – I love the notion of “bran energy”

By: Zooko

Zooko — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:52:30 +0000

P.S. To hopefully entice you further with relevance to your blog post, part of “Good Calories, Bad Calories” is about aging, cancer, alzheimer’s, dementia…

By: Zooko

Zooko — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:40:02 +0000

Amber and I just finished reading “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. It isn’t actually a diet book, and doesn’t contain any actual recommendations about actual foods that one could acquire, prepare, or eat, but it is the definitive history of the science and public policy behind everything that you have been taught about nutrition during your life, and it is also the definitive text of the current paradigm shift in the science itself.

That is: it is not a diet book, but it is both a fascinating history and analysis of science and public policy, and it is the science book that all future nutrition research will need to either embrace or refute.

So, I highly recommend that you read it. Really highly. The only drawback is that it is thick with names and dates and citations and careful, detailed, redundant explanations of the evidence and the arguments. So it can be slow going. But it is important. If you read that book and you *don’t* thank me for recommending it then I’ll buy you the most delicious steak and/or donut that we can find.

By: Cait

Cait — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:38:48 +0000

Ah this is true! Although biodigestibleprenutrientculture drinks are also aimed at small humans of either sex in the UK.

In my defence, I have been eating live yogurt every day since I was 14 and had to go on penicillin for 3 months.

By: Danny O'Brien

Danny O'Brien — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:21:50 +0000

Plus, as a woman, it's your official food!

By: Cait

Cait — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:38:59 +0000

The only thing I always do is have bran flakes for breakfast with a dollop of live yoghurt on with the milk. I have it every single day, which means I never have to think about it or vary it or expend any bran energy thinking oooh, what shall I have for breakfast?

You’re kind of set up then, I reckon. As long as you don’t follow up with lard.

By: Rick Smith

Rick Smith — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:33:24 +0000

riana, it’s only until we figure out how to *not* starve yourself and still slow the aging process.

By: riana

riana — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:27:54 +0000

There's also the people what eat like 700 calories a day because apparently starving yourself extends lifespan by slowing the aging process. But it's not much of a life, is it?

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:07:57 +0000

fine then! you live forever, I get all the ice cream!