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One of the reasons I posted this is because I wanted more discussion on the topic of this paper. On the website, I didn't see much of a discussion happening. As
by Goosee 9y ago
One of the reasons I posted this is because I wanted more discussion on the topic of this paper. On the website, I didn't see much of a discussion happening. As in the comments here, it seems that the term coined for this is "ego depletion".
Recently I've noticed many articles on HN how sugar, carbohydrates, dieting, etc. affects the brain, gut, and overall human body. Ego depletion is now on my list of topics to research further because I want to know more about the human body. I always thought of my Kinesiology class in university to be important because it taught about the relationship between the health of the human body and its environment. I hope there will be more findings in the future so we can, in a sense, optimize ourselves. For example, based on this paper it seems that eating a snack when studying can lead to better processing information and staying focused.
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- chiefalchemist 9y agoPer your last sentence, it might not be to the level of detail you're looking for but I really enjoyed "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. I had more than a couple "ah, that makes sense" moments. That aside, the gut (bacteria) / brain connection gets more and more fascinating. There's so much about our personal inner space that we have yet to understand. Amazing.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoThe title threw a flag in my mind because ego depletion is a recently-debunked hypothesis [1]. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
- lhuser123 9y agoMaybe a little off topic, but you could consider also how different are those effects on different kind of people. I find lots of info for the question of what to eat, but not so much to the question of who eats it. Does this food will have the same effects on a young person vs an older one? What about people with a slow metabolism?