Author: michaelswarmgmailcom

• The most important article I will ever write.
• We all know someone who died. Often multiple someones.
• 0.5 billion preventable deaths worldwide in last decade.
• Can almost everyone be wrong?

Food Top Killer

• Food is top killer worldwide.
• Noncommunicable disease is top killer worldwide. True.
• Food is cause of noncommunicable diseases. True.
• Is this true?
• How is this possible?

What if we eliminated chronic diseases?

Our kids might read of heart attacks, strokes, cancer and diabetes in history books. Diseases the occured in the twenty-first century, but have since disappeared after the discovery of their cause. Just like earlier nineteenth century diseases pellagra, beriberi and scurvy.

Cardiology and oncology wards would be empty. Most people will be attractive. Obesity, cavities, acne and baldness will disappear. Populations will grow, with longer childhoods, increased fitness and fertility, less suffering and longer life. Food will be cheap and abundant, as farms grow less fodder and more produce. Gluttony will be treated like drug addiction. Hospitals and doctors will focus on emergency medicine.

Just like earlier nineteenth century nutritional diseases, the cause has already been discovered. Most of society holds on to outdated ideas. The new ideas filter and are integrated and accepted and integrated slowly. Some will never accept the new ideas. But the benefits to the new generations are too great.

Learn any language. Just practice. No hacks.

Steps

1. Flashcards (app)
2. Duolingo (app)
3. TV Shows (streaming)

Waste of Time

• Classroom Spanish (traditional)

Did not learn Spanish in 3 months. Takes years. Currently watching and following TV shows in Spanish. Practice listening. Become familiar with frequent words, phrases, expressions and slang. Hundreds of hours. Thousands of hours. Not frustrated any more. Can have conversation. Can talk on telephone. Native speakers still much better. Can not write easily. Little writing practice. Can not read literature easily. Literature often works by using uncommon words.

Language Levels

1. Beginner: basic conversation (frustration) flashcards, Duolingo, toddler books
2. Intermediate: fluent conversation (without frustration), TV shows and movies
3. Advanced: Group conversation, deep conversation, humor, writing

Was Charles Darwin Scientist?

• Observations only.
• No experiments, except some pigeons.
• No randomized controlled trials.
• Natural and sexual selection in biology.
• Evolutionary psychology.

Darwin is one of my favorite authors.

• Voyage of the Beagle, 1839, is a very readable adventure.
• Origin of Species, 1859 (natural selection)
• Descent of Man, 1871 (sexual selection)
• Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872 (evolutionary psychology)

Assumed humans can eat plants or animals. But what if eating animals makes us sick, and eating plants does not? Can we still say we are omnivores?

Omnivore Evidence

Omnivore evidence from cultures past and present.

• Anthropology (hunter)
• Archeology (bones)
• Modern (us)

Scientific Error

• Error not attributing chronic diseases to animal foods.
• Prehistoric technology allowed animal foods. (Prehistoric Error?)
• Not biology. No claws or fangs.
• Not instinct. No attraction to raw meat.

Omnivore Society

How to explain omnivore societies?

• Survival (Edge Case)
• Big Error (Technology Trap?)

Scientific Correction

How to overturn the omnivore myth?

Anthropology (Hunter Edge Case)

• Eskimos have heart disease. (Hunter Edge Case)
• Peru desert fishermen have heart disease. (Hunter Edge Case)
• Egypt elite have heart disease. (Wealth Edge Case)

Archeology (Bones)

• Bones (non-organic) easier to find that seeds (organic).
• Evidence of fiber in poop.
• Evidence of starch in teeth.
• Evidence of starch on tools.

Principles are highest order or level of type or quality. Ideas below assume evolutionary biology. Belief in special creation may have biased previous generations of scientists and doctors.

Principles

1. Common-Rare
2. Whole-Part
3. Plant-Animal

Common-Rare

In natural habitat, we didn’t optimize digestion of rare or processed foods. Just was not necessary. Evolution (natural selection) did supply us general purpose digestion that was good enough for occasional foods. But are we optimized for any ideal foods, or are we general purpose feeders, remains question of science and opinion.

Whole-Part

We are animals, not machines. Animals eat foods whole or minimally processed, as found in nature. Apart from pulling fruit from a tree, leaves from a bush, tubers from the ground or meat from a bone, animals don’t really process food. Humans may have changed that by using fire to cook, but adapted to cooking over millions or hundreds of thousands of years.

Plant-Animal

But are we optimized for any ideal foods, or are we general purpose feeders, remains question of science and opinion. If eating exclusively plants food prevents and reverses chronic disease, that’s good evidence for plants being ideal foods. Our evolutionary family, hominids or great apes, are herbivores. They primarily eat vegetation, fruits and nuts. Some do occasionally eat meat, insects and honey. This does not make them carnivores, or even omnivores. Animal forms have evolved over time from carnivore to herbivore and back, often many times. All animals have general purpose digestion. We should require extraordinary evidence to prove we are omnivores. Our anatomy suggests we should eat foods similar to other hominids or great apes. We lack claws, fangs, etc. Our vision is attracted to images of produce markets, while generally disgusted by images of butchers. Paleontology suggests we ate animal foods. But bones make better fossils than leaves. When paleontologists look for plant fossils, they find them. Anthropology suggests we eat animal foods. But modern non-civilized humans are confined to the most barren habitats on the planet. By contrast, evolutionary and ancient human probably occupied habitats that were abundant in plants and animals. All of this suggests that plants are ideal foods, and animals are occasional or backup foods.

No Cure

• Prevention. No cure.
• Animal proteins, especially cow milk proteins, accelerate cancer.

Cancer Recommendations

• Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet
• Surgery
• No chemotherapy
• No radiation
• Be at home with family and friends
• Avoid hospital and hospice
• Be lesson for next generation.

Why WFPB Diet for Cancer?

• Whole body recovery and healing
• Quality of life
• Lesson for next generation
• A handful of sucesses with surgery and WFPB diet.

Why no chemotherapy or radiation?

• Whole body damage
• No cure.

Cancer Is Not Genetic

• Genetic mutation model of cancer. Mutations caused by viruses, toxins and radiation. But these things are always all around us. Maybe gene mechanism. But all biology controlled by gene mechanisms. Adds little new understanding, and little application to prevention and cure.
• If strictly genetic, why do cancers accelerate, decelerate and reverse?
• Need to add host understanding to model theory. Robustness of host matters. Strong evidence for involvement of nutrition and immunity of host. Reference China Study. Not that genetic mutation is not part of model. But genetic mutation alone is incomplete.

History

• Doctors first noticed increase in 1850s, in Europe and US, in previously rare disease.
• Top 10 cause of death since 1900, in US.

Month 7

Amazing I can do 100 pull ups. So far gains of muscle definition, pump, but not huge size. Last couple of days new 100 pull up workout. 50 pull ups morning + 50 pull ups evening = 100 pull ups.

Looking to increase max reps beyond 10. Increase intensity. Different progressions and different workouts.

First, practice the new workout types:

• Quantity (100 pull ups. Double workout.)
• Pause
• Pyramid

Second, start 8 week routine (Aug-Sep).

New Workout

Max reps (10) x 5 as fast as possible. Good form and pace. No defined sets, just keep going, minimal rest to keep going. <20m.

Source

The 8 Week Pull-Up Challenge (Everyone Can Do) (Calisthenicmovement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e96ryE4jTiE

Personal Wiki

Personal wiki is app category used for hypertext writing beyond the world wide web.

Wikis

• Public wikis: Wikipedia, GitHub Wiki
• Enterprise wikis: Notion, Confluence
• Personal wikis: VoodooPad (Mac), ZuluPad (Windows)

Personal wikis are usually platform native applications, with speed, ease of use and offline features.

Automatic Hypertext

Zero effort links. The ease of use feature that stands out for me is automatic hypertext. Any titles found in content automatically becomes links. No special markup is required.

Markup

• [[Link Address]]: Double bracket, extends common use of single brackets as footnotes.
• CamelCase: Camel case, marks phrases, not words. Simple words, like dog, still requires double bracket markup [[dog]].
• [Text](Link Address): Markdown

Most wikis and personal wikis use some form of markup. Even simple markup requires some learning and is no longer plain text. None are natural language grammar.

Wiki

• Document Collection
• Browse-Edit
• Links
• Search

How is personal wiki different that word processor?

• Word processors focus on format and layout of single documents. Any organization is left to operating system. Upside: Familiar application. Downside: Link and keyword maintenance can easily become busywork. Documents scattered.

How is personal wiki different that notes application?

• Notes applications focus on easy data entry for multiple documents. Links require formatting or markup. Organization includes folders, tags, browse and search. Upside: Familiar application. All notes collected in one place. Downside: Link and keyword maintenance can easily become busywork. Possible to create duplicate notes.

SplitNavigationView (View)

• NavigationView
  • SidebarList
  • TextCanvas
• toolbar modifier with
  • NavigationBar
  • TitleBar
  • Toolbar (ToolBar?)

Design

• Custom SplitNavigationView is top level view. (Better use HSplitView Mac?)
• 2 view NavigationView (sidebar-detail).
• Adapts to differences between IOS and Mac.
• Rename WikiPadView to match top level WikiPadApp and WikiPadDocument name pattern? Not a generic split navigation view. SwiftUI 4 actually introduced a new SplitNavigationView.