2008 - Age of Awakening / 2016 - Age of disclosures / 2021 - Age of Making Choices & Separation / Next Stage - Age of Reconnection and Transition! /
2024 - Two millenia-old Rational Collectivist societal cycle gives way to the Self-Empowered Individualism. /
2025 Golden Age begins
Global narratives and "theories of everything" are always false! Only Personal Narrative is true!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Power of Introverts (a book)

.
This is about the book:

"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"
by Susan Cain


The following interview prompted me to look at it:


She said basically everything that I have been discussing in some of my posts.

This is her book:

Read the reviews under the book.
Also this is her recent NYT article:

5% less saturated fat and more carbs = 7% more coronary events!

Am J Clin Nutr 2009;89:1425—32
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37202414/Jakobsen_2009.pdf

For a 5% lower energy intake from SFAs and a concomitant higher energy intake from carbohydrates, there was a modest significant direct association between carbohydrates and coronary events (hazard ratio: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.14);
(I borrowed the link from this article )