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Note that cutting added sugar doesn’t mean you’ll be eliminating sweet foods from your life entirely. If you adopt a standard daily diet of whole foods with no added sugar, you will still be ingesting about 10 percent of your calories from natural sugars. And once you’ve got added sugar under control, the occasional treat of chocolate or dessert won’t derail you. Dr. Lustig recommends three weeks of no added sugar to get your brain’s dopamine system back to normal.
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
nytimes.com
When you subscribe to a Smart List, all the posts from the accounts on that list will show up at the top of your screen, as a feed. That’s the “firehose”, nothing removed. By default, Smart Lists you subscribe to also show up in your For You feed. **In For You, we only show the posts that have engagement (likes, reposts, replies), so you won’t see *all* the posts from that list, just the best ones**. That’s a super simple algorithm (“only show posts from this list that have at least 2 likes, replies or reposts”).
What’s This for You Feed? Is It Algorithmic?
Mammoth Blog
The skill of self-reflection has three main components: the awareness of how I am supported by others, the awareness of the balance (or imbalance) between my giving and receiving, and the awareness of how I impact on the world around me.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
Gregg Krech
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