Saturday, September 24, 2011

David Brook's 8

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

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