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They said they didn't know about that earlier though...
hmmmm

"socks" lmao

"You need to be much less predictable."

"The battle for hearts and minds was being waged, in part, by beings without hearts or minds."

"...being a person has become a liability. Better to just be a disembodied jumble of ideas."

"I had to poop"

hahhaha relatable

"One man cut off three fingers."

What, why?

"Starvation itself can cause mental symptoms."

UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES DID THE MAN IN THE STARVATION EXPERIMENT CUT OFF HIS FINGERS

"Young, female ballet dancers..."

WHY DID YOU TELL ME THAT A MAN CUT OFF THREE OF HIS FINGERS AND THEN SAY NOTHING ELSE ABOUT IT google says it was quite possibly accidental, the starving man was out chopping wood.

"I was not well versed in how monkey stealing worked."

"...fifty chocolate bars a day".

Or, a tablespoon or two of cacao powder.

Are we looking at cacao powder now?

Nope, just leaving it at 50 chocolate bars is a lot and moving on.

"the trunk of my brain car"

"I might have, but I was too shocked by my own incompetence"

"J.R.R. Tolkein"

Ugh that was a little spoiler for a book I definitely should have read by now

"Harold"

???

"In this section, I aim to convince you that any and all claims about food and human health that have been generated by nutrition epidemiology studies can and should be completely ignored."

Wow. Okay. Good luck?

"In the initial segment of the dream his father was standing at the side of a living room looking at him and it was clear from his expression that he was trying to tell Brian something."

He's trying to say that it's okay to cry.

"cried until he was all cried out"
fair

"...feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do..."
oh...

"a shadow that lived"

"People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book."

"Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it."

That awkward moment when you go to check a reference (located not at the end of the book but instead on the author's website) and it simply skips over it.

If you skim down the list of references, there are a bunch of numbers that are just missing.

"If the how (the method of beef production) is more important than the cow (beef production, per se), the same principle should be applied to plant foods..."

The title of this chapter is "The Secret Life of Vegan Foods", and if you consider it from a vegan perspective (rather than a plant-based perspective, like the title of the book suggests) then the cow is far more important than the "how".

"low thermal conductivity"

I would have thought high, need SciShow to explain it.

"... pleasantly cluttered... way too many books on the nightstands."

"pro-me bias"

"Zac Effron"

"This can lead to increased snacking on things like crisps and biscuits..."

I want a biscuit now.

A UK school with "vegetarian-only group meals"...

It's not named but if it's the one I think it is (the famously strict one) then that is a fine school from what I've heard.

The headmistress's arguments for the vegetarian lunches are stronger than the author's criticism of them imo.

"Spinach and kale, for example, while rich in calcium, actually inhibit calcium absorption due to their oxalic acid or oxalate content"

oooooof

The calcium in kale is more bioavailable than the calcium in milk. Kale (unlike spinach) is low in oxalates.

This after denying there is a relationship between saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, the library made a mistake putting this with the non-fiction books.

"Of the twenty foods mentioned, seventeen are from animal sources."

An entirely meaningless statement because if you swap "dark leafy vegetables" for a list of types of dark leafy vegetables, or swap "beef, goat... lamb, mutton" for red meat, or "milk... goat milk" for milk, or "small fish... canned fish with bones... fresh fish" for fish, or "pulses" for all of the types of beans and lentils and peas...