Good post. I agree about keeping the brain fueled for optimum performance.

I am not a fan of soy, however,

http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/index.html

Speaking of Napoleon, a favorite description of how he came up with canned food is James Burke’s Connections, which is required viewing for all nerds anyway.

Speaking of food your mom made you eat, there’s also the argument that food, rather than nutrition is the right answer anyway. That’s what Michael Pollan says, anyway.

Oh, and I like raisins as my mid-afternoon snack, sometimes with peanuts, sometimes just plain.

Great ideas. I always have peanuts nearby and I find that pretzels sometimes help to satiate the hunger pangs as well.

@FloatingProcess: A collection of media reports and studies showing correlations does not make for solid evidence. Dollars to doughnuts, if you’re eating any processed food today, you’re eating soy.

Cooked soy is safe. If it wasn’t, an immense portion of the world’s population would be in much worse shape than it is. Food scientists are developing renewable soy products for the Mars mission because it has a unique complete nutritional profile.

That said, I don’t much like soy either… But that’s just my preference. I like peanuts (which happen to be acutely toxic to a lot of people, but don’t get the same bad rap).

@FloatingProcess: A collection of media reports and studies showing correlations does not make for solid evidence. Dollars to doughnuts, if you’re eating any processed food today, you’re eating soy.

Cooked soy is safe. If it wasn’t, an immense portion of the world’s population would be in much worse shape than it is. Food scientists are developing renewable soy products for the Mars mission because it has a unique complete nutritional profile.

That said, I don’t much like soy either… But that’s just my preference. I like peanuts (which happen to be acutely toxic to a lot of people, but don’t get the same bad rap).

I have used the following GTD anecdote about Napoleon’s productivity system a few times. Does anyone know if it’s true?

The anecdote:

Napoleon got a lot of mail, documents. Pretty much everything said “extremely urgent”. He’d just stack everything on his desk in a big pile. Every week he’d start a new pile. He’d take care of the most urgent business and the rest he’d take care of when people came to his office. Get paper out of the pile, take care of it.

The piles moved from right to left every time a new week - and thus a new pile - was started. His desk fitted 6 piles.

On the left of his desk was a bin…every week all paper that was in the 7th pile (so hadn’t been taken care of and no one came into his office calling for action) went straight to the bin.

As you say, Napoleon got things done!

You know, my husband and I have talked about this a lot. Due to health concerns, we follow Dr. Fuhrman’s (Eat to Live) recommended diet: Beans, Salads, Cooked Vegetables, Nuts (raw) and Seeds, and Fruit. (It’s not as limiting or impossible as it looks, either.)

We both notice that our concentration is just so much sharper - we simply don’t get tired during the day anymore - and we don’t need to snack. True story.

So keep eating those greens, fellas, and keep up the great work on this blog!

@terceiro - James Burke! On YouTube! Why did I have to read this while I’m at work? Productivity is tapping at the window, striving to fly free….

I loved that show! Thanks for letting me know it’s still out there, in one form or another.