Math Academy has some of that but remains a calm and distraction-free learning environment that still actually teaches anyone who shows up to regularly and consistently do the work. Worth checking out.
I'd also check out HtDP [0] or the similar two-book set on problem solving and program design by Marco T. Morazán [1].
They both come from the Racket school of pedagogy and focus on systematic program design [2]. The first resource is free and excellent, but the second goes into more detail.
This reminded me of one of the greatest posts in the history of the internet, and I am devastated to report that it no longer exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6516114
If you made a Venn diagram for the non-genetic risk factors for heart disease and Alzheimer's, they'd basically be a circle.
Being worried about dementia but ignoring things like heart disease, diabetes, poor sleep, getting enough exercise, eating a health-promoting diet, etc. is like worrying about paying for retirement but refusing to save and invest.
In a real sense, you've spent decades likely increasing your risk unnecessarily when taking action early would have given you the greatest leverage to lower your lifetime risk.
But you can't change the past. If you didn't plant a tree 20 years ago, plant it today and you'll still get some benefit, minimizing any future increase in risk and maybe even lowering it.
You could realistically have almost half your life left before you, and you can still end up being fitter and healthier than you've ever been in your life if you adopt healthy habits around diet, strength training, and endurance training.
Yeah it's definitely more about saturated fat from animal sources.
A leaner cut like tenderloin is fine.
Ultimately you just want to keep the calories you get from saturated fats from animal sources to less than 10% of your daily calories. You can still enjoy a nice steak or burger every once in a while, but they shouldn't be a daily staple if health is a priority.
No, I mean for some, a high saturated fat diet can do amazing wonders. And for others, it causes horrible issues. The studies are not well segmented genetically and by body state since that is signficantly more expensive and genetics only got cheap in the past 10 years or so, so they wash out these large sub-population dynamics.
It's the sort of thing you can just experiment with and see for yourself.
Try eating the usual health-promoting diet high in fiber and low in saturated fats from animal sources, mostly whole foods, lots of fruits and veggies and legumes and whole grains, lean meats, etc.
After a few months, check your blood work.
Then reintroduce fattier cuts of meat into your diet and see what your numbers do after a few months.
There are specific recommended minimums in the physical activity guidelines about strength training and endurance training where meeting them is likely to significantly reduce your disease risk and improve your health: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
Health guidelines take into account when screening/testing is a net harm or benefit for patients in general, and when they move from being a net harm to a net benefit conditional on specific factors like existing diseases, obesity, etc.
Any decent doctor should be at least following those, and you can pretty easily find them from the major disease-focused organizations.
Importantly, there are also recommendations for how often you see a doctor based on things like age and known disease risk. You might discover you have risk factors that are genetically resistant to lifestyle factors, and the earlier you find out, the more leverage you have to decrease your lifetime risk with appropriate medication.
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