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2/2 However, these studies lasted just a few weeks or months. Perhaps prolonged nut consumption leads to weight gain? That question has been examined in 6 different ways in studies lasting up to 8 years. One found no significant change and the other 5 measures found significantly less weight gain and reduced risk of abdominal obesity in those who ate more nuts.”

1/2 “To date, there have been about 20 clinical trials on nuts and weight and not a single one showed the weight gain you might expect. All the studies showed less weight gain than predicted, no weight gain at all, or weight loss, even after study subjects added a handful or two of daily nuts to their daily diets.

“For those unwilling to make major shifts in their diet, just the minor tweak of adding nuts appeared to cut stroke risk in half.”

- walnuts are fabulously antioxidant and omega-3 rich

- ppl who ate more than 3 servings of walnuts per week appeared to cut their risk of dying from cancer in half

“Lean in and Lay Down” - inappropriate behavior by Sheryl Sandburg, insisting employees sleep in a shared bed with her during private jet flights, buying her assistant $3k in lingerie and making her assistant purchase $10k in lingerie for her, cuddling/laying her head on an employee’s lap to rest, brutally publicly tearing down staff for being late, insisting staff hire Filipino nannies, being a fake feminist

Board member suggests to predominantly Jewish leadership team that Facebook needs to get closer to far-right political parties in Europe because that’s where power is shifting

2/2 People suggest various analogs that don’t seem to fit very well and then Elliot finally says out loud the one I think everyone is already thinking about, but not saying: Tobacco.
That shuts down the conversation and they move on to the next agenda item.”

1/2 “Then the board gets into a conversation about what other companies or industries have navigated similar challenges, where they have to change a narrative that says they’re a danger to society, extracting large profits, pushing all the negative externalities onto society and not giving back.

Fascinating breakdown of the facade of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg as drivers of democracy, free speech, internet access/equality, etc. Majorly exposing the profiteering practices, lack of respect for all governments, worker rights’ offenses, gluttony, greed, and an overall transparent disregard for all but themselves and the dollar

Really interesting organizational switch when one role changed (more progressive/diplomatic woman left and Joel Kaplan joined, with profiteering and Hawk-like tendencies) - Zuckerberg fully profit driven, very open to aligning self with autocratic countries if Facebook can benefit financially

Former bush chief of staff Joel Kaplan gets job w/fb, wants policy team to generate profit/ push politicians in the USA and abroad to become advertisers

“The idea is, if politicians depend on Facebook to win elections, they’ll be less likely to do anything that will harm Facebook. If Facebook is the goose that lays the golden egg, no one wants to kill the goose. Get them hooked on those golden eggs.”

“I think the point at which you have to explain Nuremberg to the head of the team leading your China entry is probably a red flag.”

- Nuremberg defense by Nazis: we were just following orders

“Surely, there’s no way that Facebook would leverage Hong Kong users’ data as part of a deal to get into China. Later, just a few months later, I’d learn no, no. This was how the head of the China project was thinking things would play out.”

Sprinkling mustard powder onto cooked broccoli can increase the benefits and reduce the loss of vital nutrients that are lost during cooking

2 kiwis an hour before bed has been proven to significantly improve sleep onset, duration, and efficiency + improved bowel function

Dried fruit manufacturers will pump their fruits with sugars to increase their weight at sale, similarly to how poultry producers pump their chickens with salt water to increase weight.

Best to dehydrate your own fruits. Idea: mango slices sprinkled with chia added to dehydrator

Goji berries: expensive in shit health stores but super cheap in Asian foods stores under the name of “Lycium berries” and they’re cheaper than raisins.

Icecream:

- whip up frozen fruit in a blender
- simplest: brown, peeled frozen bananas. Transform into a fluffy delicious dessert.

- chocolate: blend dark sweet cherries/strawberries, tbsp cocoa powder, pitted dates, splash of milk of your choice, capful of vanilla extract, can add almond butter for nut servings

“Only fructose from added sugars appear to be associated with decline in liver function, high blood pressure, and weight gain. How could the fructose in sugar be bad but the same fructose in fruit be harmless? In nature, fructose comes prepackaged with fiber, antioxidants, and phytonutrients that appear to nullify adverse fructose effects.”

Lentils are easy to add to spaghetti sauce without altering the flavor too much

Canned beans are equally nutritious to cooked dried beans but have about 100% more sodium. Rinsing can get rid of about 50% of the sodium but also removes some nutrition.

Using dried beans is cheaper, but only about 20 cents per serving. Lentils cook quickly and don’t need to be pre-soaked.

Sprouted lentils: super nutritious and easy to make

The lentil effect: the ability of lentil consumption to blunt the blood sugar spike of foods consumed hours later

- so rich in prebiotics, create a feast for your friendly flora, relaxes your stomach and slows the rate that sugars are absorbed into your system

Lens: lentil in Latin

Camera lens were named after the bean, because of the shape

Meat alternatives like Chikn patties are a step up from meat for nutritional value, but not as good as just eating straight up Whole Foods. It’s considered a yellow light food/way to move away from standard American diet/indulge

“The Soul does not want to be saved; it wants to be witnessed.” - Parker Palmer

“When something is sacred, it does not have a price. I don’t care if it is white people talking about heaven or Indian people talking about ceremonies. If you can buy it, it isn’t sacred and once you start to sell it, it doesn’t matter whether your reasons are good or not. You are taking what is sacred and making it ordinary.”

“It all comes back to possessions. You want to have everything and you think that is fine, as long as it is put in piles or in rooms or in boxes with labels. We don’t have very much and we leave it when we don’t want it or need it.”

“All you really care about is keeping things clean. You don’t care how they really are, just so long as they are clean. You see a dirt path with a pop can next to it and you think that is worse than a big paved highway that is kept clean. You get madder at a forest with a trash bag in it than at a big shopping center that is all clean and swept.”

“Generosity is the most important. Now we have been turned around. We think that good people should be rewarded, just like the white man thinks. Can’t you see how much better it was when good people thought they should give, not that they should get? We didn’t measure people by rich and poor. We didn’t know how. When times were good, everyone was rich. When times were bad, everyone was poor.”