Dupped By Scales, 30 Weeks of Diet Scutiny, Mistborn Wizard

I spent a long time listening to diet advice from people on Youtube who are very clever about citing studies. They sounded knowledgeable, but I have since discovered the recommendations are based on incorrect conclusions from the cited studies. I was duly dupped by the advice and started shopping for supplements and foodstuffs based on false conclusions. When a study sites that something is toxic to mice in a given dose, you would conclude that you should not eat it either. But, on scrutiny of the dose size given to the mice, a comparable helping for a human is ludicrously large. For example, the sweetener in Coke Zero is toxic in a large enough dose. However, to drink enough Coke to get an equivalent amount of sweetener, you would have died from the water toxicity first. That poor lab rat was killed for no good end.

Food and diet advice is currently the number one search on our devices because diets are on the menu at our house this summer. We put on the pounds like many during the lockdown, and getting the weight off at our age is challenging. I am reasonably sure I could stand to drop 30 pounds. I remember when I would have sold my soul to gain 30 pounds in college. Those were the days.

I would think not having all my digestive tract would have some weight loss advantages. Not so much. I have to work at losing weight like everyone else. I set my sights on losing a pound a week or thirty weeks total. We celebrated the start of our shared journey with ice cream and peanut butter cups last night.

What am I reading this week?

Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson

I am taking a break from my personal development reading list to enjoy fantasy content. This is a series where a band of criminals uses their magic powers to pull off a caper under the cover of a coupe to topple their world's wizard ruler. Much like the heroin of this book, we know nothing of this world save for what is revealed to us in her training to become a wizard or Mistborn. Society in this book is stunted in a 1,000-year-long medieval system of keeps and farming. Slaves are working the fields, nobles are going to balls, a ruling class of wizards is running the show, soldiers are keeping things orderly, and an evil immortal ruler being mysterious.

I mostly liked the book. The author said he based it on a Harry Potter type world where the Dark Lord wins. I think having one thousand years of stagnation is a real cheat. You think some time in the story's scope; they would have developed cars, trains, and indoor plumbing.

I look forward to starting the next book. Because the characters often say there are secrets behind secrets.