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J. Stanton
Personal blog · gnolls.orghealthscience
J. Stanton writes GNOLLS.ORG, a personal blog at gnolls.org about health and science. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link J. Stanton's gnolls.org posts on diet and nutrition: breakfast, satiety, saturated fat, calories, and low-carb or paleo eating. One commenter credits a series on calories for changing their view.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Well I'm not eating breakfast quite often and it does not affect me in any negative way - more like the opposite. If it took you 18+ years to feel negative effects of not having breakfast, I would probably check any other changes that happened recently first. As a counter argument, here's a couple of links on why you should not eat breakfast, but feel free to disagree. http://www.gnolls.org/2131/the-breakfast-myth-p…
Comment linking /2181/the-breakfast-myth-part-2-the-art-and-science-of-not-eating-breakfast/
on “Tired of Being Tired”Submitted Why Snack Food Is Addictive: The Grand Unified Theory of Snack Appeal as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttp://www.gnolls.org/2407/when-satiety-fails-why-are-we-hun...
Comment linking /2407/when-satiety-fails-why-are-we-hungry-part-4/
on “There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast”Submitted I Am a Ghrelin Addict as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree that fructose (when eaten separately without the surrounding real fruit) is bad. But people should go some steps further: The whole composition of stuff most people eat is wrong (low fat, high carb). I recommend having a look at paleo-style diets (e.g. http://www.gnolls.org/1141/ ) which mean high fat, mid protein, low carb. They provide more satiety, no after-lunch tiredness and a lot more. My own way was g…
Comment linking /1141/
on “Fructose: The Poison Index”I guite enjoyed the recent series of posts on gnolls.org "a calorie is not a calorie". I was quite convinced before that calories in has to equal to calories out for a stable weight, now I'm quite far from being sure First article in the series: http://www.gnolls.org/3374/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-calor...
Comment linking /3374/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-calorie-to-your-body/
on “Time to end the war against saturated fat?”I would say that the message of the article is "we need more regulations". My reaction was, basically, "you haven't shown that; at best you've suggested we need better enforcement of existing regulations'. So while I disagree with the original linked article, I'm not sure you and I disagree. :) As for the studies, this is winding far afield, but there's two main ways you can do a study: Controlled and observational.…
Comment linking /2893/always-be-skeptical-of-nutrition-headlines-or-what-red-meat-consumption-and-mortality-pan-et-al-really-tells-us/
on “Dietary supplements: Scary substances manufactured under scary conditions”