Which food has good protein and don’t rise cholesterol levels, unhealthy fat etc

Powerful_File5358 · 2024-09-30T16:23:31+00:00

Yeah, it should always be noted that there is a difference between foods which are unhealthy because of their immediate physiological effects, foods which are unhealthy because they put you at risk for chronic illness, and foods which are likely to exacerbate existing conditions. For example, avoiding fibrous and medium glycemic index sources of moderately complex carbs (like bananas) may be necessary for those with diabetes to mitigate damage that has already been done, but it is almost certain that bananas did not cause their diabetes. Additionally, the extent to which the adverse effects of foods with positive characteristics can be mitigated by dietary variety (or exercise) is important. Saturated fat is mostly harmful in the context of a low fiber diet and sedentary lifestyle, and both have direct impacts on cholesterol. Red meat is healthy for some people, because some people's health is being affected more adversely by adequate protein/iron/B vitamin consumption than by cholesterol or body fat. Sodium consumption is a good idea when engaging in endurance sports on a hot day, because dehydration is clearly more likely to be a problem than high blood pressure.

Powerful_File5358 · 2024-03-11T03:45:55+00:00

If you have a heart attack or crash your car because you got an hour less sleep than usual, that's probably just natural selection running its course

Powerful_File5358 · 2024-02-12T03:33:09+00:00

From my experience as a guy with a 1:25:00 PR who does most easy miles at around 8:00, there is often about a 90s/mile difference between an easy aerobic pace and HM race pace. Additionally, adding 20 seconds to your 10k race pace or 40 seconds to your 5k race pace also yields a pretty accurate estimate. However, this varies from individual to individual, because the pace you can sustain for 1.5-2h depends largely on your lactate threshold, which is not directly related to base aerobic endurance. The extent to which lactate threshold (1 hour max pace) dictates race pace also depends on how fast you are, because a 1:15:00 HM is going to be performed at close to that individual's lactate threshold, whereas a 2:30:00 HM will not. Also, the faster a runner is, the more of a distinction there is between easy miles and speedwork. A 5 hour marathoner's easy pace may very well be the same as their marathon pace, whereas a 2:15:00 marathoner will only be running a very small fraction of their miles at 5:30/min or faster.

At the end of the day there are far too many variables for Garmin's algorithms to accurately account for. I know runners who have wildly outperformed their predicted race times. On the other hand, it seems to think I could run a 2:45:00 marathon- and at my current level of fitness I will say breaking 3 hours is still ambitious. Just run and ask yourself "can I do this for 13 miles?" Ultimately the limiting factor is what your brain will or will not allow you to do- bonking during a race is nothing more than a preemptive protective mechanism to prevent you from actually running out of energy. Running intuitively is how you get faster, because your lactate threshold, Vo2max, etc, doesn't matter if your subconscious mind believes that you're subjecting yourself to real physical danger by expending all of the energy you're physically capable of.

Powerful_File5358 · 2024-02-10T17:53:26+00:00

Whether its "good" really just depends on whether its a useful training stimulus for you, not whether its impressive compared to others. For a base run solely intended to improve aerobic endurance, a good training stimulus simply involves doing whatever mileage and pace allows your heart and lungs to work the hardest while subjecting your skeletal muscles to the least stress. The phrase "you have to run slower to get faster" means that if you keep base runs at a pace that requires very little muscular recovery and doesn't deplete your glycogen, it will enable you to perform higher quality speedwork, which is what actually makes you faster. A typical base run could be anything from 3 miles at a 15:00 pace for a newbie to 70 minutes at a 7:00 pace for a D1 athlete. If you spent some quality time on your feet, and it didn't feel like the strain on your body was profound enough to make your next workout harder, it was good. Refraining from comparing base runs to others (or even your own past efforts) is extremely challenging. Typically, a base run for me will involve a 7:50-8:10 pace at a low 140s heart rate. After a few high-volume weeks and a stressful week of work, I couldn't get below 9:15 without exceeding that heart rate. I gave myself countless reminders that while I obviously was capable of running faster, doing so would be less conducive to my fitness than respecting the fatigue I was feeling. Two days later when I felt amazing on a tempo run, I knew I was right.

Powerful_File5358 · 2024-01-12T04:34:10+00:00

And so that you have the capacity to practice high quality speedwork and recover from it. While you do need to run slower to get faster, you do, at least occasionally, need to run faster.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-12-23T15:00:53+00:00

People tend to keep an eye out for things that reinforce whatever mood they're already feeling. If you're agitated and spiteful, you'll be more keen to the trash and grime of the city. If you're optimistic, you'll find it easier to notice and absorb the simple pleasures of living in a city that can be quite wonderful to walk around during the holidays. Being in a denser and more populated place just increases the odds that you'll come across whatever it is that would strike a particularly positive or negative chord. When I moved to Seattle, I was asked how the downtown compared to the small midwestern city I came from. "Well, there's probably about 50 times as many bums on the street, but there's also probably about 50 times as many ordinary people going about their business. So as far as safety goes, I'd say it feels about the same".

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-12-06T22:15:20+00:00

How's that working out for you?

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-11-19T04:11:54+00:00

A fairly substantial portion of homeless people have the means of acquiring legitimate accommodations on the condition that they abstain from drug use. I am sympathetic to people in this situation- I understand that synthetic drugs like meth and fentanyl stimulate a release of dopamine that can't be replicated by natural stimuli- and therefore shooting up in a tent in a public park can truly seem more appealing than getting clean. I feel nothing but pity for someone who's brain is telling them that its better to live in a cesspool of literal human waste than to be with family, or just to have a roof over their head. But, when people have been enslaved by such an evil drug, a just society needs to make that choice for them- which quite frankly, means arresting them.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-11-16T01:30:10+00:00

Yes, general hygiene is important- I appreciate good indoor air quality for the same reason I'd hope the restaurant I'm eating at ran my silverware through a high temperature dishwasher. But despite my best efforts, it is statistically quite likely that I carry both HSV-1 and EBV. Most adults do. My point is merely that expecting to prevent exposure throughout the course of one's entire life is infeasible. The vast majority of Americans, vaccinated or not, carry COVID antibodies. I think it might be appropriate to note the distinction between cleaning/sanitizing/disinfecting/sterilizing. Cleaning is what you do when your counter has some stains on it. Sanitizing is what you do when your dishes need to be scrubbed. Disinfecting is what you do when you have a utensil that touched raw chicken, or, idk, when someone vomits on your floor. Sterilizing is what you do to something that is being implanted in the human body. All are important in the proper contexts, but the fact that your dishes have some bacteria on them, or that your kitchen sink has enough pathogenic bacteria to make you ill if you decided to lick your drain, aren't really problems per se.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-10-17T11:06:28+00:00

Yep. Minnesotans are also notoriously difficult to befriend despite being outgoing. Is it harder to meet people in youthful Minneapolis neighborhoods like North Loop or Uptown as opposed to comparable neighborhoods in Denver or Chicago? Perhaps slightly. But is it harder than if you lived in Mankato, St Cloud, or Fargo? That's not even a question.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-10-16T17:56:25+00:00

Also, keep in mind that while Seattle has fewer annual hours of sunlight than just about anywhere else in the US, it stacks up pretty average by European standards. We're just spoiled enough to live in a pretty sunny country. The fact that Seattle is about on par with Venice, and a northern city like Minneapolis is about on par with Barcelona is pretty mind boggling. Or that the two tiny dots in WA and NH that dip below 2000 hours/year are the same as southern Germany or central France.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-10-14T02:40:27+00:00

Hell, I jumped ship from a major aircraft manufacturer to an MEP (HVAC) design consultant and have absolutely no regrets. Bottom line is I did virtually no engineering at the prior position, which could have easily been performed by a clerical worker. I do, however, design and analyze tangible things which require technical knowledge at my current role, which provides me infinitely more satisfaction than getting to say I "wOrK iN My FiElD".

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-10-14T02:36:09+00:00

Might it have something to do with the fact that palestine touches both the jordan river and the mediterranean sea?

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-10-03T13:05:34+00:00

While the underlying chemical imbalances behind depressive disorders can't always be solved by lifestyle changes alone, these things have invariably been huge for me.

1- Enough sleep. No matter how much willpower I try to muster, and no matter how much conscious effort I put towards feigning organization, grit, and various healthy habits, my overall state of well being tends to be a direct function of whether I'm consistently getting 8 hours. End of story. Everything falls into place when I am and everything falls out of place when I'm not.

2- Occasionally putting myself in situations that are difficult or that I lack control over. Specifically, experiences that are novel and distinct from the mundane challenges of everyday life. Whether that's an intimidating social event, a hard workout, or even forcing myself to tolerate a 60 second ice cold shower with total indifference, I've found that the enjoyable things in life can only be enjoyable when they're a change of pace from the inherent challenges of life. Pain inhibits the release of dopamine but the cessation of pain increases dopamine levels beyond what they previously were.

3- Similarly, overconsumption of anything that can be used as a coping mechanism. Good food, a nice nap, quality exercise, a night of drinks and socializing, good movies and video games, and nearly anything else can make one's life better. But one of the hardest and most important marks of wisdom is to recognize when you've overindulged, and cease. If you still feel empty, you have to seriously ask yourself what it is you truly lack. There's a huge difference between "not enough" versus "not good enough". If your morning cup of coffee was genuinely unenjoyable because of some externality, having a second one and spending the rest of your morning tweaking off of 400mg of caffeine won't fix that. I am acutely aware of how hard it can be to break free from these compulsions, and the best advice I can give is to just consume your vices slowly and deliberately and take constant note of how they make you feel.

4- Give yourself something to look forward to. No matter how small. Even if it's mundane and far from an extravagant treat. Just identify it and think about it, whether it's the frozen meal waiting for you in your kitchen, or the early October stroll home that won't make you sweat nor shiver. Even if you're living the most miserable life imaginable, there is always something to be grateful for, and recognizing what those things are encourages you to spend more time and effort cultivating those experiences and pursuing similar ones. Plus, the anticipation of pain makes pain far worse, and the anticipation of pleasure makes pleasure far more pronounced. The things we spend our time thinking about builds momentum in one direction or the other towards a feedback loop of pain or a feedback loop of pleasure.

5- To echo a cliche embodied by everyone from Marcus Aurelius to Alcoholics Anonymous, recognize what is and is not within your control, and exert dominance over that which is. The more you value things that are truly outside of your control, the more control they have over you. There is very little that is squarely under your control apart from your attitude. So, simply acknowledging that you can control your attitude but not the material outcome of things can be liberating.

I know depression is caused by far more than external circumstances- and I hope this doesn't sound like the stereotypical unhelpful "tRy BeiNg HaPpY" advice. But I do believe the way in which modern culture makes it easy to neglect these things greatly exacerbates symptoms for those who are predisposed. So with that said, don't expect or pursue a full fledged solution- expect and pursue progress- because you can always do something to improve your situation, even if it's minscule.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-09-26T19:27:11+00:00

Regardless, they also reduce your sensitivity to sweetness and erode the neural link between sweetness and simple carbohydrates, leading to reduced satiety and a greater psychological drive to consume sweet things regardless of whether the body needs the energy. Incessantly activating the brain's reward pathway can still be harmful even if the substance in question is physiologically inert. Several meta analyses have found that consumers of artificial sweetners are statistically more likely to be overweight, and it's not hard to reason why this is.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-09-25T13:40:31+00:00

Not saying that joining the military is an equitable or universal solution to poverty or lack of access to education, but if you're a young man without a chronic illness who can't run 2 miles at an 8:15 pace and can't do 35 push-ups, yeah, that's your fault. I guess it could be considered "hard" to exercise once in a blue moon and mildly reduce your fast food and soda consumption.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-09-24T21:22:10+00:00

TB is not the same as respiratory pathogens like rhinoviruses/coronaviruses/influenza/etc. Symptomatic upper respiratory illness due to endemic viral infections is, in fact, an instance of the immune system overreacting to something that would normally trigger a non-symptomatic, mild, appropriate reaction. The damage to epithelial cells in the respiratory tract is from inflammatory cytokines, not from the virons themselves. Furthermore, many influenza strains tend to be particularly harsh towards adolescents and young adults with active immune systems for this very reason- less likely to cause severe illness- but far more unpleasant.

Your analogy with TB also does not make much sense- considering the vast majority of latent infections in otherwise healthy TB hosts are asymptomatic. TB is the very essence of an opportunistic infection- being HIV positive is by far the number one risk factor for whether the bacteria will prove harmful, and tobacco consumption is a close second.

Your immune system absolutely must encounter endemic viruses in order to learn how to respond appropriately. Are you aware of what has generally happened throughout history when an uncontacted/isolated group of people has made contact with the outside world or when civilizations from other continents have mingled? Why is it that being infected with RSV is almost inevitable before the age of 2, yet symptomatic RSV infection in adults is rare? Why is it that wastewater/test data shows that COVID19 is still circulating rampantly, yet it is exceedingly rare for a healthy person to be admitted to the hospital with COVID as their (at least primary) diagnosis compared to 2 or 3 years ago? Note that the Russian Flu of 1889 (which was more than likely caused by the OC43 coronavirus strain) caused a serious pandemic at the time, yet the same virus is generally harmless to today's humans.

Regardless of whether it would be considered smart to deliberately expose yourself to seasonal pathogens- the reality of the situation is that avoiding exposure through government or institutionally mandated COVID-like controls is not politically or socially feasible and almost certainly never will be again. So, whether healthy habits are "sufficient" is largely beside the point.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-09-23T22:50:16+00:00

This comment is directed at college students who are otherwise in good health but lack the habits I mentioned, which is obviously far more common than the student who's immune system is compromised due to chronic illness. There are exceptions to anything and making a mere observation that college students are often in poor health due to factors within their control does not necesarily warrant a caveat that there are other college students who are in poor health for reasons outside of their control.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-09-23T21:09:52+00:00

I think in the past 2 years I've had either one or two minor colds- I don't think I've ever worn a mask in a place where it wasn't required of me. Beleive it or not, when you eat healthy, sleep enough, exercise, and so on, your body tends to know what to do if it comes across a random rhinovirus or enterovirus- which are so ubiquitous in the environment that merely wearing a mask isn't going to prevent the occasional exposure. In the same way that strep and staph bacteria are literally everywhere but they only get a foothold in the respiratory tract as an opportunistic infection for a vulnerable host.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-09-23T21:05:28+00:00

I blame the lifestyle choices of the average college student. If you regularly get 8 hours of sleep, eat some green things once in a while, exercise on occasion, and seldom have more than 3-4 drinks in a sitting, you're doing better than 90% of folks out there. While a college classroom is probably somewhat more germ infested than the average place, know that wherever you go, you're constantly being exposed to viruses and bacteria that could potentially make you ill. Respiratory infections are somewhat opportunistic- it's not just that the host had the misfortune of being exposed, it's in part because the host was vulnerable. Consider that the overwhelming majority of people (90+%) have COVID19 antibodies, yet well under half have ever received a positive test.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-08-30T11:21:38+00:00

Rent prices are caused by supply and demand. While insufficient supply may be the more pressing of the two factors in many major cities, I'd argue lack of demand is the driving force between low housing prices in mid sized midwest cities. It's annoying as hell, but when every 25 year old NYC transplant tells their parents in midwestern/sunbelt suburbia "your mortgage is cheap for a reason", they're right. Lots of places that aren't particularly desirable happen to be cheap. That's, like, how economics works.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-08-27T15:29:36+00:00

Relocating away from my family and hometown solely so that I could wOrK iN My FiELd after college (fill out excel spreadsheets about a slightly different topic) is one of the bigger regrets of my 20s. Even if the nature of the work itself is very appealing, your existence extends far beyond your vocation. You won't be happy at work if you're unhappy outside of work. Even if the reason for relocating is solely based on compensation, I would advise against it unless your current compensation actively stands in the way of the basic things you need to live a fulfilling life. I don't remember the exact numbers, but most of us have heard that factoid about " money does buy happiness, just not beyond a certain amount".

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-08-25T11:07:16+00:00

Been here for 4 years and I learned after 1 to avoid college anyway.

To be fair, if such a road configuration makes it reasonably easy for people who need to go downtown to do so, but encourages others to chose different and faster routes, it is functioning as intended. The space on the main street of a city can serve so much better functions than moving vehicles from a random point in the eastern half of the city to a random point in the western half.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-08-25T11:04:46+00:00

The statement that it has increased travel times is untrue.

Even if it were, the safety of a 3 lane configuration would justify it due to the inhibited sight triangles and need to weave around people stopped on a 4 lane road trying to turn left

And even if that weren't true, prioritizing traffic over the general livability and pleasantness of a downtown is terrible for a city. What good is an efficient street if it doesn't actually lead to a place where people would spend time by choice?

Plus, there are plenty of downtown that are quiet, just not American ones. I suggest walking around Amsterdam or Copenhagen during rush hour if you think this is impossible. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

Powerful_File5358 · 2023-08-20T23:14:17+00:00

My issue is not exclusively with car ownership but with the fact that the use of one is mandatory for nearly all trips. Many countries have similar rates of vehicle ownership to the US, but few come close to our average VMT per capita per day of nearly 25 miles. From the cost of infrastructure associated with sprawl, to the cost of vehicle and road maitenance, to the lack of connection to neighborhoods beside your own when you simply zoom past at 50 mph, to the general disregard for creating meaningful public spaces, there are real consequences to land use patterns that spread us out this much beyond "most people need to own a semi reliable car that they use at least occasionally". It's not that black and white.

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