Don’t give up, give in, relent, but stay disciplined — get regular exercise, both physical and mental, and eat for nutrition. Instead of just capitulating, try to constantly improve. Stay disciplined and keep improving right up to your final day. To hell with old age!
The acid test for Stoic eating is the willingness to eat foods that are nutritious but taste bad. Can you do that? For me, that would be asparagus, beets, brussel sprouts, etc. I can.
Pure lemon juice, not from concentrate. Myriad health benefits if you can get it down. Especially if you have a problem with kidney stones.
Instead of orange juice, which is mostly water and sugar with orange flavoring added and no fiber, eat an actual orange, which is loaded with vitamin C and fiber. That’s good for you, the drink isn’t.
The ancient Stoics divided earthly activities between those they could control and those they couldn’t, with all the shades in-between. For those aspects of life that were in the tweener zone, Stoics recommended an attitude of “preferred indifference,” for the world could as easily squench these tweeners without any recourse by the individual.
The three conspicuous tweeners were: fame, wealth, and health, for one is not entirely in control of any of these, such that life can pivot on each mercilessly…the sudden public attack that defames you utterly, the stock market collapse that wipes out your assets, the hidden aneurysm that leaves you prostrate and just barely clinging to life.
So one should not hold tight to any of these tweeners, but rather have an attitude of preferred indifference — you prefer to be well endowed with all three, but can still be indifferent if they are taken from you, rather than be in a state of shock and despair, for there is an element in all three clearly beyond your control.
I have gone 100% organic after reading about GMOs and glyphosate. Scary stuff — the general public of course oblivious.
Does glyphosate damage your microbiome?
Insomnia, the bane of my existence. I know what curse I would use for enemies.
Twenty years or so ago, it was the low-fat craze — they demonized fat. Then we discovered the body needs fat, and was especially low in Omega 3 fats, so the mantra was eat the right fats. But now the pendulum has swung all the way over to the over consumption of fat — the Keto diet recommends that 70% of what you eat should be fat. The Keto people are even now apologists for how “healthy” saturated fat is. Crazy.
But don’t let it upset you. Just wait another 20 years and fats will be all bad again.
I’m on vacation in Charleston, and every morning I go to a bakery selling “gourmet donuts.” I buy a cup of coffee there, not a donut. But every morning, without fail, I see a parent come in with their children, and they excitedly buy these donuts that have an incredible amount of sugar and unhealthy fat — just way over the top, yet the parents feed their kids this stuff without a thought in the world, no hesitation at all.
I just have to think that the parents are really just completely clueless about nutrition and food to be doing this, for clearly they would not intentionally harm their own children, would they? They simply must have no idea at all how really bad refined sugar is for health, for each one of these donuts is like a sugar nuke — the sugary frosting is so incredibly thick (that’s the “gourmet” part, I guess), and so must be an intense explosion for the taste buds as well as an incredible surge of dopamine. All this a strong reinforcement for a food that could not be worse for health. Makes one wonder about how reprehensible these parents really are — or does ignorance excuse them?
I also see the same people show up every morning at the donut shop — sugar addicts, whether they know it or not.
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