It would be wonderful if every time you thought you knew something you could categorize that general perspective as either positive or negative, and then keep a tally of the on going results and look at a chart of your life. Look at how your life is today, how you feel about that life, and how you feel about the future or past. I think it would be very telling. I think if someone could see a chart kept in one place of when faced with a situation where they don't know the truth what their general opinion is that they would learn a lot about their selves. You may not be shocked, but you may learn a lot. You may even be grateful for such a set of knowledge.
You may never do this. Some people including my self do not enjoy being so regimented and having to do such things.
I think it would be more functionally and actively healthy to do a regular reflection on your thoughts.
Just be aware. It seems this idea keep coming up.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Why I keep saying reality is consistant
No, not just because its true...
I keep saying it because I think it is an INCREDIBLE lifelong, always expanding, never fully reaching maturity learning tool. With it you see that the truth on the inside is mirrored on the out side and vice versa. You can learn things from other people and then learn things about your self from it. You can learn from nature. Saying it, is another way of stating that reality is what it is and its everywhere. It is the "ness" of life. It is a way that I learn. People say you can't really know "truth", and while that is a fun philosophical conversation for sure.....I have to live...... which means I need to know how to live. I need to know what to do and not to do. If all of this is true then I better start learning. If there is no such thing as truth then there is NOTHING to learn..because everything would always be subject to change which means everything could be and eventually wrong and right. But like I said....I have to live.
The mere fact that I am here proves there is truth. I am Ryan therefore I am.
I keep saying it because I think it is an INCREDIBLE lifelong, always expanding, never fully reaching maturity learning tool. With it you see that the truth on the inside is mirrored on the out side and vice versa. You can learn things from other people and then learn things about your self from it. You can learn from nature. Saying it, is another way of stating that reality is what it is and its everywhere. It is the "ness" of life. It is a way that I learn. People say you can't really know "truth", and while that is a fun philosophical conversation for sure.....I have to live...... which means I need to know how to live. I need to know what to do and not to do. If all of this is true then I better start learning. If there is no such thing as truth then there is NOTHING to learn..because everything would always be subject to change which means everything could be and eventually wrong and right. But like I said....I have to live.
The mere fact that I am here proves there is truth. I am Ryan therefore I am.
Hormones?
This is part of a series. If you have not please read Another way first.
I thought, hormones, really. The only other times in my life as a 29 year old male that I have thought about hormones had to do with women and the concept of menstruation, as it starts, supports birth, and then goes away. Something wonderful happened to me as I looked into low carbs and Atkins. I realized I knew very little about my body. This realization was the splitting of a mental atom that has resulted in an explosion of ideas and interest. I'm greatful that I was open to and comfortable with being wrong and accepting that I knew very little.
I had always been interested in thinking for my self and coming to conclusions because I felt they were logical, defensible, and consistent. I had done the same with politics that turned into philosophy.
I had always thought that fat on the body was the result of extra food energy that I did not burn during that day. You go about your day you eat you live your burn energy, if at the end of the day you burned less than you took in you retained that energy as fat. Over time this excess energy accumulates and you grow in your fat. Period. Its all about the first law of thermodynamics. Calories in equal calories out. This is easy to understand and seems to make sense. This is why dieting is all about being a little bit hungry all the time, because after all hunger is a psychological sensation, its not really real...its just a desire. This is why we make fun of fat people as being lazy, and having no self control. I mean when we don't do something in life that we know we should, it comes down to self control, why should diet be any different. So put in less gas in the tank but run the engine more through exercise. All of this is sorta true, but really when it comes down to it, at BEST its half the story and largely miss's the mark. Look back at this paragraph, thats it. There are more metaphors and other tricks, but this is the story you have seen repeated and repeated and repeated. So much so that everyone believes is to be true. People who know almost nothing about human biology and nutrition will tell you what is healthy and that this is the way to lose fat. I've come to believe that its missing something.
What makes your fat cells able to release fat from storage? Its not just burning calories. You can burn plently of calories and not release fat from storage. This must be something good to learn.
I learned about Insulin, Leptin, Ghrelin, Thyroid hormones, enzymes, the differences between the macro and micro nutrients. I learned that real fat is not bad for you and that carbs are not a good alternative. I learned about the liver, the gut, the pancreas, the gall bladder, the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, the portal vein. I learned the difference between saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated fats, and trans fats and not just the chemical difference but how they interact with your body. I learned which foods fit into those groups. I learned about sucrose, glucose, fructose, and long chain polysaccharides, and again not just chemically how they are different but how they interact with your body differently. I learned how food naturally has different amounts of these macro and micro combinations. I learned how these things affect our hormones differently. I've learned that mother nature is brilliant, and that there is more going on than meets the eye. I leanred that your body will give up its fat while staying nourished in a way that does not require hunger.
Here is a main point. Yes a calorie is a calorie, but what does that tell you? Not much. I put on a table a calorie of gasoline, a calorie of wood, a calorie of alcohol, a calorie of glucose, a calorie of stearic acid. Do all of these things contain the same amount of energy? Is a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, yes, But so what? The point, the primary and most important point is, what are these calories made of, what do they do to you? Each of them is metabolized differently and therefore affect out bodies differently. It is an over generalization to think of food as just how many calories of energy they represent. It is an over generalization that has lead to failure in people's ability to change the % of fat they carry on their body, and worse. This idea combined with the idea that fat is bad for you and will clog your arteries is as bad of an idea as the following out dated and bad ideas.
1. If you have red hair you are a witch.
2. The earth is flat
3. If you were to travel faster that 15mph you would disintegrate
4. putting leaches on you and draining your blood when you are sick is a good way to gain health.
5. De sterilizing the delivery room is not important.
6. Slavery is ok.
7. Women are worth less than men.
When you saw a very tall person growing up did you think they were tall because they ate a lot? No
When you saw a short person did you think. Wow, they must be undernourished? No
We didn't think that because we were not taught that. Actually those two ideas seem sorta funny don't they? Then why did we think that fat people are fat because they eat too much and they are lazy; Because we were taught that. I ask you, why? It is generally correct that fat people eat more and move less, but why? Its not because of a psychological problem is it because of a hormonal problem.
This post is ultimately about this fact. You DO affect your hormones and therefore your body and mind by the type of calories that you put in your body. When there is choice, quality is more important a concept and quantity, its not an either/or point, quantity is important too, but quality is more important, it is primary and our focus should start there. This is true in all aspects of life, everything, When there is choice, quality over quantity...OH Whats that?? reality is consistent??...yea it is. This fact is the most important concept to grasp when it comes to the idea of health. Do not boil down your body's energy storage and release mechanism to the crude image of an engine and a gas tank. If you do so you will most likely reach some very bad problems. The real kicker is that there will be multiple problems that seemingly have no link, and these problems according to your mechanism will only have one solution, eat less and exercise more. Take pills where this isn't enough. Fail.
The new paradigm. Your body, like your mind, is a long series of feed back loops, an input has an output this output in an input that creates an output that is also an input, and so on. In fact there are MANY of these loops going on at once. Some of them are the same process some of them are different. Some of these loops are very old. Work with your body, learn about your body. Things happen for a reason, when it comes to your body those reasons are amazing, intertwined, and complex. When you get this concept you look to work on the cause and not the effect. You gain this appreciation of your genetics. You see how complex and intertwined everything is. You see that this system must have been developing over time. You realize that your body is set up to be optimally healthy under a certain food and emotional environment.
Throughout this blog we will dissect issues that are science, chemistry, and biologically based. We will also look at related issues that are anecdotal based. If these ideas are good they will be aligned, they will be consistent. For instance you are the result of 77,000 generations of homosapien, our genetics have generally been the same for millions of years. With that in mind, what do you think you should eat. Should it be food that has only existed for 5, 10, 15, 20, 100, 200, 10,000 years? Do you think when you decide what to eat based upon that historical anectdotal idea that the biological, hormonal, and chemical ideas that we can test today will be consistent with them. Yea they will.
I thought, hormones, really. The only other times in my life as a 29 year old male that I have thought about hormones had to do with women and the concept of menstruation, as it starts, supports birth, and then goes away. Something wonderful happened to me as I looked into low carbs and Atkins. I realized I knew very little about my body. This realization was the splitting of a mental atom that has resulted in an explosion of ideas and interest. I'm greatful that I was open to and comfortable with being wrong and accepting that I knew very little.
I had always been interested in thinking for my self and coming to conclusions because I felt they were logical, defensible, and consistent. I had done the same with politics that turned into philosophy.
I had always thought that fat on the body was the result of extra food energy that I did not burn during that day. You go about your day you eat you live your burn energy, if at the end of the day you burned less than you took in you retained that energy as fat. Over time this excess energy accumulates and you grow in your fat. Period. Its all about the first law of thermodynamics. Calories in equal calories out. This is easy to understand and seems to make sense. This is why dieting is all about being a little bit hungry all the time, because after all hunger is a psychological sensation, its not really real...its just a desire. This is why we make fun of fat people as being lazy, and having no self control. I mean when we don't do something in life that we know we should, it comes down to self control, why should diet be any different. So put in less gas in the tank but run the engine more through exercise. All of this is sorta true, but really when it comes down to it, at BEST its half the story and largely miss's the mark. Look back at this paragraph, thats it. There are more metaphors and other tricks, but this is the story you have seen repeated and repeated and repeated. So much so that everyone believes is to be true. People who know almost nothing about human biology and nutrition will tell you what is healthy and that this is the way to lose fat. I've come to believe that its missing something.
What makes your fat cells able to release fat from storage? Its not just burning calories. You can burn plently of calories and not release fat from storage. This must be something good to learn.
I learned about Insulin, Leptin, Ghrelin, Thyroid hormones, enzymes, the differences between the macro and micro nutrients. I learned that real fat is not bad for you and that carbs are not a good alternative. I learned about the liver, the gut, the pancreas, the gall bladder, the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, the portal vein. I learned the difference between saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated fats, and trans fats and not just the chemical difference but how they interact with your body. I learned which foods fit into those groups. I learned about sucrose, glucose, fructose, and long chain polysaccharides, and again not just chemically how they are different but how they interact with your body differently. I learned how food naturally has different amounts of these macro and micro combinations. I learned how these things affect our hormones differently. I've learned that mother nature is brilliant, and that there is more going on than meets the eye. I leanred that your body will give up its fat while staying nourished in a way that does not require hunger.
Here is a main point. Yes a calorie is a calorie, but what does that tell you? Not much. I put on a table a calorie of gasoline, a calorie of wood, a calorie of alcohol, a calorie of glucose, a calorie of stearic acid. Do all of these things contain the same amount of energy? Is a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, yes, But so what? The point, the primary and most important point is, what are these calories made of, what do they do to you? Each of them is metabolized differently and therefore affect out bodies differently. It is an over generalization to think of food as just how many calories of energy they represent. It is an over generalization that has lead to failure in people's ability to change the % of fat they carry on their body, and worse. This idea combined with the idea that fat is bad for you and will clog your arteries is as bad of an idea as the following out dated and bad ideas.
1. If you have red hair you are a witch.
2. The earth is flat
3. If you were to travel faster that 15mph you would disintegrate
4. putting leaches on you and draining your blood when you are sick is a good way to gain health.
5. De sterilizing the delivery room is not important.
6. Slavery is ok.
7. Women are worth less than men.
When you saw a very tall person growing up did you think they were tall because they ate a lot? No
When you saw a short person did you think. Wow, they must be undernourished? No
We didn't think that because we were not taught that. Actually those two ideas seem sorta funny don't they? Then why did we think that fat people are fat because they eat too much and they are lazy; Because we were taught that. I ask you, why? It is generally correct that fat people eat more and move less, but why? Its not because of a psychological problem is it because of a hormonal problem.
This post is ultimately about this fact. You DO affect your hormones and therefore your body and mind by the type of calories that you put in your body. When there is choice, quality is more important a concept and quantity, its not an either/or point, quantity is important too, but quality is more important, it is primary and our focus should start there. This is true in all aspects of life, everything, When there is choice, quality over quantity...OH Whats that?? reality is consistent??...yea it is. This fact is the most important concept to grasp when it comes to the idea of health. Do not boil down your body's energy storage and release mechanism to the crude image of an engine and a gas tank. If you do so you will most likely reach some very bad problems. The real kicker is that there will be multiple problems that seemingly have no link, and these problems according to your mechanism will only have one solution, eat less and exercise more. Take pills where this isn't enough. Fail.
The new paradigm. Your body, like your mind, is a long series of feed back loops, an input has an output this output in an input that creates an output that is also an input, and so on. In fact there are MANY of these loops going on at once. Some of them are the same process some of them are different. Some of these loops are very old. Work with your body, learn about your body. Things happen for a reason, when it comes to your body those reasons are amazing, intertwined, and complex. When you get this concept you look to work on the cause and not the effect. You gain this appreciation of your genetics. You see how complex and intertwined everything is. You see that this system must have been developing over time. You realize that your body is set up to be optimally healthy under a certain food and emotional environment.
Throughout this blog we will dissect issues that are science, chemistry, and biologically based. We will also look at related issues that are anecdotal based. If these ideas are good they will be aligned, they will be consistent. For instance you are the result of 77,000 generations of homosapien, our genetics have generally been the same for millions of years. With that in mind, what do you think you should eat. Should it be food that has only existed for 5, 10, 15, 20, 100, 200, 10,000 years? Do you think when you decide what to eat based upon that historical anectdotal idea that the biological, hormonal, and chemical ideas that we can test today will be consistent with them. Yea they will.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
What to eat
I realized that I've said a lot, and not said what to eat. There are a few variations of opinions on what is optimal and best. Everyone agrees on the big stuff. The differences are usually about particular health issues like...are you sensitive to dairy, or night shades, or how many carbs exactly should you have, is white rice ok? What about tubers and bulbs? I have opinions on all of this, but don't want this particular post to get too long. oops...
You know...I just deleted a lot of stuff on purpose, because I thought. Why reinvent the wheel, I can't improve upon it. The man who made it is Dr. Kurt Harris and this is it. I just want add a few comments before I put up the link.
There is really solid reasoning behind what he has put here. It is very simple to follow. I have felt great improvements to my physical and mental self as I've followed it. If you have eaten a low fat diet for a long time you may have to ease in for eating lots of fat. You will probably feel weird the first week or so as your body reacts like an addict to the lack of sugar. If you are not eating paleo or low carb now your body is setup to be a carb (glucose) burner and when you stop feeding it "sugar" you will get those crazings...until your body adapts to being able to burn your own fat storage for energy. This process takes a week or so to start and a few months to be really Keto adapted.
Let your hunger guide your portions and meal timings. You will find those things change naturally as your body is properly nourished. It is a process to learn all the things you can eat, as well as being able to spot fake crappy food's and to avoid them. Even in mind of my last sentence, don't freak out about it, if you are not perfect dont' worry about it, but don't give up on the core principals. They are the real key to lean and health. Use knowledge and experience to guide you. A lot of the real and lasting changes come from your perspective of how you see your body. Do not feel like you have to be hungry, do not avoid fat. Seek saturated fat.
For example I am 6' 2" 244 every once in awhile I put what I eat into a calorie counting webpage. I put in there what a real typical day of eating is for me. Just following these principals it turned out to be just under 2000 calories with ratios of 60% fat, 10% carbs, 30% protein. I honestly think that is the optimal ratios for weight loss. Kurt makes a point to say don't worry about those ratios because they will work out on their own. He's right, but if you want to be more neurotic about it for fat loss think highfat, low carb, moderate protein. I just wanted to show an example.
Enjoy.
http://www.archevore.com/get-started/
You know...I just deleted a lot of stuff on purpose, because I thought. Why reinvent the wheel, I can't improve upon it. The man who made it is Dr. Kurt Harris and this is it. I just want add a few comments before I put up the link.
There is really solid reasoning behind what he has put here. It is very simple to follow. I have felt great improvements to my physical and mental self as I've followed it. If you have eaten a low fat diet for a long time you may have to ease in for eating lots of fat. You will probably feel weird the first week or so as your body reacts like an addict to the lack of sugar. If you are not eating paleo or low carb now your body is setup to be a carb (glucose) burner and when you stop feeding it "sugar" you will get those crazings...until your body adapts to being able to burn your own fat storage for energy. This process takes a week or so to start and a few months to be really Keto adapted.
Let your hunger guide your portions and meal timings. You will find those things change naturally as your body is properly nourished. It is a process to learn all the things you can eat, as well as being able to spot fake crappy food's and to avoid them. Even in mind of my last sentence, don't freak out about it, if you are not perfect dont' worry about it, but don't give up on the core principals. They are the real key to lean and health. Use knowledge and experience to guide you. A lot of the real and lasting changes come from your perspective of how you see your body. Do not feel like you have to be hungry, do not avoid fat. Seek saturated fat.
For example I am 6' 2" 244 every once in awhile I put what I eat into a calorie counting webpage. I put in there what a real typical day of eating is for me. Just following these principals it turned out to be just under 2000 calories with ratios of 60% fat, 10% carbs, 30% protein. I honestly think that is the optimal ratios for weight loss. Kurt makes a point to say don't worry about those ratios because they will work out on their own. He's right, but if you want to be more neurotic about it for fat loss think highfat, low carb, moderate protein. I just wanted to show an example.
Enjoy.
http://www.archevore.com/get-started/
Saturday, April 23, 2011
now you know
Now that you have some idea about Gary Taubes and have perhaps looked up the Dr. Oz Show with him. You may have come across some people flaming Gary for not getting his cholesterol checked and "showing the world" what a low carb high fat dies "does to your arteries". Garys stance was that (paraphrasing here) he does not think its that important to get tested. That if you eat a high fat you will be as healthy as you can be so why get caught up in measuring something that he couldn't "improve" upon anyway.
But he did. Here are Garys numbers.
http://www.garytaubes.com/2011/04/before-sugar-were-talking-about-cholesterol/
But he did. Here are Garys numbers.
http://www.garytaubes.com/2011/04/before-sugar-were-talking-about-cholesterol/
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Another way
This is part of a chain. If you haven't read seeking healty diet please do so.
Another way walked past my desk one day at work. Was I open to it?
A friend of mine walked past my desk. A particular friend whom I just happened to really admire, I'll refer to him as K. I looked at K and said "wow did you lost some weight"? Now, I didn't say wow because he was overweight and I was shocked to see his body composition move towards the lean side. No, I said wow, because I always thought of him as a fit, in good shape, 40 something adult male. So K went on to explain to me that he has been on the Atkins diet for 3 months and has lost a lot of fat while eating till his hearts content, pun intended. If life is an amusement park, this was the beginning of a new ride that started out awesome and keeps getting better.
My brain heard Atkins and ever present attendant quickly gave me two ideas.
1. This wasn't to much of an idea as it was a feeling. I experienced the feeling of warning, un-popular, like I felt a little ashamed as if the A word should not be said out loud.
2. I remembered back in middle school when my grand parents talked to my parents about this Atkins diet they were on. At the time I was very lean and thought about diet as much as I thought about retirement. I remember their big point was that Atkins worked better than other diets because when presented with fat, protein, or sugar the body would preferentially burn sugar so it would never get to the fat, because by the time you are hungry again you eat more sugar. I also learned that carbohydrates break down to sugar. I remember really liking this idea at the time. It made sense. Sense is good.
I felt guilty about #1 because of what "every one" else thinks about it. Sorta like...remember in elementary school when everyone loved Michael Jackson, then a few years later everyone hated michael jackson but secretly liked him still, and then later on loved him again...yea like that. I had respect for Atkins though because of my memory of #2. I didn't let the negative overwhelm me. So I approached K with openness and curiosity. He went on to tell me how he ate, how he felt, why he did it, and some about how it works. I remember looking at my desk seeing a bunch of bananas, a bag of apples, and oranges, a box of cliff bars, and bags of tuna. High carb, low fat, calorie restriction. Here were very clearly two worlds colliding. Looking back I think I was really lucky because I wasn't afraid of fat. I was just doing what men's health magazine told me to do, because I wanted abs, and to look like the guys on their magazine covers! Not a bad goal, and actually it's one that I still have.
Being open minded I started to look up Atkins and low carb. I quickly found a diet forum where I saw there was this one guy that was answering every ones questions. With some digging I was able to find his email address and started a several month open dialog about How and why Atkins worked. I was so happy that he responded. It turns out he was a scientist by trade, and what he said to me vastly opened up my world view.
Ultimately body composition comes down to hormones.
Another way walked past my desk one day at work. Was I open to it?
A friend of mine walked past my desk. A particular friend whom I just happened to really admire, I'll refer to him as K. I looked at K and said "wow did you lost some weight"? Now, I didn't say wow because he was overweight and I was shocked to see his body composition move towards the lean side. No, I said wow, because I always thought of him as a fit, in good shape, 40 something adult male. So K went on to explain to me that he has been on the Atkins diet for 3 months and has lost a lot of fat while eating till his hearts content, pun intended. If life is an amusement park, this was the beginning of a new ride that started out awesome and keeps getting better.
My brain heard Atkins and ever present attendant quickly gave me two ideas.
1. This wasn't to much of an idea as it was a feeling. I experienced the feeling of warning, un-popular, like I felt a little ashamed as if the A word should not be said out loud.
2. I remembered back in middle school when my grand parents talked to my parents about this Atkins diet they were on. At the time I was very lean and thought about diet as much as I thought about retirement. I remember their big point was that Atkins worked better than other diets because when presented with fat, protein, or sugar the body would preferentially burn sugar so it would never get to the fat, because by the time you are hungry again you eat more sugar. I also learned that carbohydrates break down to sugar. I remember really liking this idea at the time. It made sense. Sense is good.
I felt guilty about #1 because of what "every one" else thinks about it. Sorta like...remember in elementary school when everyone loved Michael Jackson, then a few years later everyone hated michael jackson but secretly liked him still, and then later on loved him again...yea like that. I had respect for Atkins though because of my memory of #2. I didn't let the negative overwhelm me. So I approached K with openness and curiosity. He went on to tell me how he ate, how he felt, why he did it, and some about how it works. I remember looking at my desk seeing a bunch of bananas, a bag of apples, and oranges, a box of cliff bars, and bags of tuna. High carb, low fat, calorie restriction. Here were very clearly two worlds colliding. Looking back I think I was really lucky because I wasn't afraid of fat. I was just doing what men's health magazine told me to do, because I wanted abs, and to look like the guys on their magazine covers! Not a bad goal, and actually it's one that I still have.
Being open minded I started to look up Atkins and low carb. I quickly found a diet forum where I saw there was this one guy that was answering every ones questions. With some digging I was able to find his email address and started a several month open dialog about How and why Atkins worked. I was so happy that he responded. It turns out he was a scientist by trade, and what he said to me vastly opened up my world view.
Ultimately body composition comes down to hormones.
Monday, April 18, 2011
point of view
Everyone has a point of view. We're all different, so even as we might come to the same conclusion we may still have a different point of view. Understanding yours and wanting to understand others' helps you communicate. You are accepting reality you are learning more, you want to learn more. You can rely on your conclusions more, as you apply this to your life.
Amongst many players in the High fat/Low carb versus low fat/high carb "battle". Two of the people that come to mind are Gary Taubes and Dr. Oz.
You probably know Dr. Oz. Right about now would be a really good time to ask your self why. Why do you know who Dr. Oz is? Now ask your self what kind of diet do you think is healthy. Why do you think that? Both the concept of Dr Oz and the concept of a healthy diet come from the same school of thought. They are children from the same parents. I ALWAYS question something that I "just know" without trying to know. I did not set out to know who Dr. Oz was, I did not set out growing up to know what a "healthy diet" was, it was something that I absorbed by being born in 1980 in America and paying some "normal" amount of attention to media (books, mags, Internet, tv, radio). Therefore I argue that everyone knows what a "healthy diet" is and most agree. For some people, the more others agree with them, the more they agree with their selves. This is called truth through consensus, and is Dangerous, much more dangerous than any weapon, true. To those already included in this consensus group it takes nothing more than empty platitudes and dogma for the followers to agree even more. Most comedians know this, Chris Rock uses this a lot. People cheer and laugh really hard at things they agree with. Thinking is forgone conclusion and no longer necessary. If it took almost no thought to believe in it...beware.
Do you know who Gary Taubes is? Well, with the help of, and to the detriment of Dr. Oz, you may. For you to believe Gary, he will have to EARN your respect and trust. As he does this you may want to know him. This makes sense, and is fine. Always prefer the things in life which had to be earned, if you have to earn it everyday the better it is. Happiness is down this path. Yes, even though your lover says they love you, you still have to earn it everyday. Knowledge and ideas are no different. Remember reality is consistent. Gary stands a chance in convincing you IF you are loyal to the truth and not JUST to what you already believe. Again sometimes those two things are aligned, sometimes they are not.
What is your point of view? Are you able to become undefensive and hear Gary's idea?
Here is an article by Gary on his recent visit to the Dr. Oz show.
http://www.garytaubes.com/2011/03/dose-of-intervention-land-of-dr-oz/
lotta good comments too.
Amongst many players in the High fat/Low carb versus low fat/high carb "battle". Two of the people that come to mind are Gary Taubes and Dr. Oz.
You probably know Dr. Oz. Right about now would be a really good time to ask your self why. Why do you know who Dr. Oz is? Now ask your self what kind of diet do you think is healthy. Why do you think that? Both the concept of Dr Oz and the concept of a healthy diet come from the same school of thought. They are children from the same parents. I ALWAYS question something that I "just know" without trying to know. I did not set out to know who Dr. Oz was, I did not set out growing up to know what a "healthy diet" was, it was something that I absorbed by being born in 1980 in America and paying some "normal" amount of attention to media (books, mags, Internet, tv, radio). Therefore I argue that everyone knows what a "healthy diet" is and most agree. For some people, the more others agree with them, the more they agree with their selves. This is called truth through consensus, and is Dangerous, much more dangerous than any weapon, true. To those already included in this consensus group it takes nothing more than empty platitudes and dogma for the followers to agree even more. Most comedians know this, Chris Rock uses this a lot. People cheer and laugh really hard at things they agree with. Thinking is forgone conclusion and no longer necessary. If it took almost no thought to believe in it...beware.
Do you know who Gary Taubes is? Well, with the help of, and to the detriment of Dr. Oz, you may. For you to believe Gary, he will have to EARN your respect and trust. As he does this you may want to know him. This makes sense, and is fine. Always prefer the things in life which had to be earned, if you have to earn it everyday the better it is. Happiness is down this path. Yes, even though your lover says they love you, you still have to earn it everyday. Knowledge and ideas are no different. Remember reality is consistent. Gary stands a chance in convincing you IF you are loyal to the truth and not JUST to what you already believe. Again sometimes those two things are aligned, sometimes they are not.
What is your point of view? Are you able to become undefensive and hear Gary's idea?
Here is an article by Gary on his recent visit to the Dr. Oz show.
http://www.garytaubes.com/2011/03/dose-of-intervention-land-of-dr-oz/
lotta good comments too.
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