{"id":6764,"date":"2014-04-21T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:18:11","slug":"skin-in-the-game-fasting-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/skin-in-the-game-fasting-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"SKIN IN THE GAME &#038; FASTING FOR LENT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SKIN IN THE GAME &amp; FASTING FOR LENT &#8211; I recommended to a friend who had a health problem to fast intermittently as frequency is more consequential than food composition (by Jensen&#8217;s inequality). Then I realized that I violated the ethics of Skin-In-The-Game by not doing so myself so I started last week to step-up the duration between meals (except for water and black coffee): 19, 20, 24,&#8230; and I just finished 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In a way it was easier to eat nothing than comply by the grueling Orthodox lent, just bread and vegetables. I can report that much of the benefits in the literature are indeed there; one feels great not eating, and, strangely, also after eating. There is no loss of energy, but I can&#8217;t lift as heavily as usual, while paradoxically feeling detectably lighter walking up the stairs or standing up from a couch. Mental clarity and allergy for economists and BS operators are unimpaired.<\/p>\n<p>But most at the end, one feels reborn&#8230; Will celebrate Happy Easter \/Rebirth of Adonis in another post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152157299153375&amp;id=13012333374\">SKIN IN THE GAME &amp; FASTING FOR LENT &#8211; I&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SKIN IN THE GAME &amp; FASTING FOR LENT &#8211; I recommended to a friend who had a health problem to fast intermittently as frequency is more consequential than food composition (by Jensen&#8217;s inequality). Then I realized that I violated the ethics of Skin-In-The-Game by not doing so myself so I started last week to step-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}