Managing Your Energy, Diet Edition

[elfs]

I read the Harvard Business Review. Yes, that's a closet. One of my favorites, Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time, is put up on the web for all of us to read freely. But imagine my pleasure while reading their recent anthology of self-management, when I came across this paragraph in Overloaded Circuits by Ed Hallowell:

The brain does much better if the blood glucose level can be held relatively stable. To do this, avoid simple carbohydrates containing sugar and white flour (pastries, white bread, and pasta, for example). Rely on the complex carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables. Protein is improtant: Instead of starting the day with coffee and a Danish, try tea and an egg or smoked salmon.

No white-stuff-diet for the win!

The best part of this article? It was written in 2005. Six years ago, the no-white-stuff diet was mainstream, upper-management knowledge.

Comments

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Yeah, people always seem to forget that Broccoli is a carb. (Yes, yes, epinoid, it's mostly cellulose, blah blah blah.) And they forget that sugar is a carb.

Elf, remember, back when we were kids, those cartoon episodes that warned against eating cake, cookies, and candy all of the time? I do.

I'm sure you'll agree, Elf: Most of our "food" today has so much sugar in it, that it's basically candy. Our "bread" would've been considered cake and/or pastry back a century ago.

We need to start issuing the warning cry, that those cartoons of our childhood have come true: we are now eating cake, cookies, and candy all of the time.