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Diabetic decision fatigue

You'll see I wear only gray or blue suits. I'm trying to pare down decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make. The late Steve Jobs didn't like to waste energy…

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More lives than a cat

The bear says I'm the luckiest unlucky person he knows. If there's a virus going around I'm always certain to get it. I spent five weeks in bed with covid-19 before most people even knew what it was. Out of all the illnesses I've tried,…

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Once upon a time before diet books

The remedy may be as old as the hills, as I have since been told, but its application is of very recent date; and it astonishes me that such a light should have remained so long unnoticed and hidden... William Banting was a man who…

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Fasting with type 1 diabetes

L'appétit vient en mangeant. I've put on five kilos during the pandemic. This proves that you can gain weight on a low carb diet, although some bloggers would have you believe that you can eat the fridge with no consequences. My case is crystal clear…

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Why we get fat and what to do about it

To explain obesity by overeating is as illuminating a statement as an explanation of alcoholism by chronic overdrinking. In The Diet Delusion Gary Taubes showed how nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War when the European scientific community in the…

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