The Good News About What's Bad for You . . . The Bad News About What's Good for You by Jeff Wilser

Author:Jeff Wilser [Wilser, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781250063816
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2015-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. Kind of. Sort of. The world of health is tricky, it’s nuanced, and it’s filled with asterisks. We’ll get to the many disclaimers in a bit.

2. I have no idea if this last one is true, but other health books seem to claim it with no evidence, so I will, too.

DRINK

1. But this is true of everything, including water.

2. Sadly, there’s something else beer is rich in: carbs. Another trade-off. If you’re drinking a steady diet of beer, the carbs make it that much harder to drop weight.

3. Let’s ignore, for the moment, that 1) There’s some doubt on whether he actually said this; and 2) Hemingway was an alcoholic who stuffed a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

VICE AND DIVERSIONS

1. Correlation versus causation alert. This just shows an “association.” It could be that well-adjusted kids tend to gravitate toward video games in moderation. As far as epidemiological studies go, this one’s pretty loosey-goosey.

2. So how to square this with the idea that multitasking can be bad for you? This sounds like a classic health paradox. But the two might be compatible. Instead of darting back and forth between work and the web, focus on one thing—and only one thing—for a sustained period of time, then switch.

BAD MIND-SETS

1. What if you’re not sure if you’re an extrovert or introvert? Then we’re in the same boat. Whenever I’ve taken introvert-extrovert personality quizzes I split my answers right down the middle—I crave my alone time, but I also talk too much at dinner parties, which, technically, makes me what the experts call an ambivert.

2. It’s time to create a drinking game. Every time you see “in moderation,” you should drink. Because drinking is healthy for you. In moderation.

(ALMOST) EVERYTHING ELSE

1. Score a point for organic food. Maybe overall it doesn’t make a difference for most people, but there are certainly exceptions. So much of health is case by case.

2. Kahneman won a Nobel Prize and is one of the founding fathers of decision-making theory and behavioral economics. His book is magnificent.

MORE FOOD

1. Just because something “lights up the happy zones of the brain” does not make it good for us. Something else that lights up the happy zone: cocaine.

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