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A batch of the best highlights from what Todd's read, .
Put in the most basic terms, we’re eating a lot more seeds and a lot fewer leaves (as do the animals we depend on), a tectonic dietary shift the full implications of which we are just now beginning to recognize.
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
**Awareness**
16. How do I learn what people around me are thinking and feeling?
17. How often do I update this data?
18. How often am I surprised by what I learn?
19. Do people volunteer their views to me, or do I have to solicit them?
20. If I have to solicit someone's views, how might I be making them reluctant to volunteer
Compasses and Weathervanes
edbatista
Here’s the chain of events:
1. You think about eating a meal containing carbohydrates.
2. You begin secreting insulin.
3. The insulin signals the fat cells to shut down the release of fatty acids (by inhibiting HSL) and take up more fatty acids (via LPL) from the circulation.
4. You start to get hungry, or hungrier.
5. You begin eating.
6. You secrete more insulin.
7. The carbohydrates are digested and enter the circulation as glucose, causing blood sugar levels to rise.
8. You secrete still more insulin.
9. Fat from the diet is stored as triglycerides in the fat cells, as are some of the carbohydrates that are converted into fat in the liver.
10. The fat cells get fatter, and so do you.
11. The fat stays in the fat cells until the insulin level drops.
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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