Harvard Bound? Chin Up? by David Brooks appeared in the March 2, 2006 edition of the New York Times.
If you do everything on this list, you'll get a great education:
Read Reinhold Niebuhr
Read Plato's "Gorgias"
Take a course on ancient Greece
Learn a foreign language
Spend a year abroad
Take a course in neuroscience
Take a course in statistics
forget about your career for once in your life
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Stephen Pratt's 25 Superfoods
Pratt's website lists the following nutrient rich foods:
broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables including cabbage, cauliflower and brussels sprout
blueberries or other berries or grapes or cranberries
spinach or other fresh greens
green tea or other tea
tomatoes
walnuts or other nuts or nut butters with no transfats or added sugar
wild salmon or other high omega 3/low mercury fish including sardines and herring
turkey breast or other skinless poultry breast
nonfat yogurt or kefir
orange or other citrus
sweet potatoes or carrots or pumpkin or squash
oats or other whole grain especially wheat germ
soy or tofu or edamame
beans or other legumes
red onions or other onions or shallots
garlic
cinnamon
avocado
pomegranate
kiwi
apple or other fresh fruit
extra virgin olive oil
dried fruit like prunes
dark chocolate 70+ percent cocoa solids
honey
plus others include the following foods as super:
water, hot peppers and hot pepper sauce, mushrooms, spices especially turmeric and ginger
broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables including cabbage, cauliflower and brussels sprout
blueberries or other berries or grapes or cranberries
spinach or other fresh greens
green tea or other tea
tomatoes
walnuts or other nuts or nut butters with no transfats or added sugar
wild salmon or other high omega 3/low mercury fish including sardines and herring
turkey breast or other skinless poultry breast
nonfat yogurt or kefir
orange or other citrus
sweet potatoes or carrots or pumpkin or squash
oats or other whole grain especially wheat germ
soy or tofu or edamame
beans or other legumes
red onions or other onions or shallots
garlic
cinnamon
avocado
pomegranate
kiwi
apple or other fresh fruit
extra virgin olive oil
dried fruit like prunes
dark chocolate 70+ percent cocoa solids
honey
plus others include the following foods as super:
water, hot peppers and hot pepper sauce, mushrooms, spices especially turmeric and ginger
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