(March 6, 2023 at 10:48 am)Objectivist Wrote: I'm at 37 and a half hours and still not hungry this morning. Got a little bit of vertigo last night and a headache. Realized I had only had a cup of coffee to drink all day and evening. It's hard to remember to drink doing this. I drank a couple of glasses of water with a pinch of salt like he says in the video and it went away. Feel fine this morning.
That is not healthy. Eat something. Yes, there is bad food but that doesn't mean that you should stop eating. There are people who eat nonstop because they eat food that is insufficient in nutrients, but if you eat nutritious food you will be fine and won't get fat. For example, cook a cup of lentils and eat potatoes from the air fryer and it will feed you enough and you won't get fat.
When it comes to our ancestors, they did not have a superior cuisine. They were hungry. Most creatures are hungry most of the time. Any population that has more than enough resources will tend to grow until there is no longer any surplus; any population that has too few resources will naturally decline. This implies that populations tend to find and then oscillate around their upper limit, a number known as carrying capacity. So if you were to check in on an ancestor at random, there is a good chance you would find them wanting more food than they have.
And they also ate processed food. Have you ever wondered why people have weak jawbones especially compared to other apes? It is because Homo Erectus used fire to prepare food and thus ate food that was easily chewed and digested. So we have to process every food we eat. And that also made our intestines shorter which made us smarter because we could use more energy for the brain.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"