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65 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 24 Sep \ on: The Cost of Living with Too Much Information HealthAndFitness
I do sympathise with what you are describing. It's true that there are far too many opinions about how to do anything.
For me, I try to avoid much of the overload by inhabiting a "good enough" mentality for most things, and only going "best possible" in a select few realms.
Water? Probably good enough to drink a good amount.
Oil? (Well, all food in general) good enough to avoid processed food. I just try to prepare food that was as close to real as possible).
Maybe in Bitcoin I try more for best possible. Same for writing. I'm willing to spend a lot of hours on something I write. And I don't experience very much paralysis in those realms because I feel that I've put in enough time to be able to make my own opinions despite the welter of voices.
I think that’s good advice. Implied in it is the value of having an overarching theory to operate from.
Yours was “whole foods > processed foods”, which is pretty good.
Once you have that theory in place, a lot of decisions become automatic and it’s easier to incorporate specific insights as you learn them.
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For us here at home we think a little like that too, only it has been tedious now that we want to go deeper into certain topics.
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Nutrition science is notoriously low quality, so you’re always going to be relying on your own best judgement.
I give more weight to explanations that can describe the biological mechanisms at play than those that just rely on statistical analysis.
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