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@ScruffyDux@fosstodon.orgAt rest, the average body consumes 20% to 25% of the body's energy. That equates to 350 to 450 calories for the average person. The energy comes mainly from glucose.
https://www.livescience.com/burn-calories-brain.html
#Autistic brains create 42% more information at rest.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140131130630.htm
This could equate to 497 to 639 calories just to power our resting brain, let alone when we're hyperfocused or overstimulated.
Gee, why do we all crave simple, quickly digested, glucose rich foods? Mystery.
I have taken so much shit for the amount of carbs, milkfat, and salt that my body needs. But but the magazines in the grocery aisle say you need to stop that!
It's sugar sugar that fucks me up, even fructose I have to be careful with.
@anomalon @actuallyautistic Me too. Earlier this year I solved a problem where I'd crash hard every day after I ate my "healthy" breakfast and "healthy" lunch with complex carbs, as per standard advice.
I learned most of us don't have enzymes to break down complex carbs, and have other metabolic difficulties, so I swapped everything for simple carbs. White bread, white potato, white noodles & pasta etc.
Suddenly, no more crashes and more stable energy than I'd had in years. We're different.
When I was working on my Master's project, I ate bags and bags of peanut M&Ms and lost weight anyway.
@ecsd @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic
Oh, what subject? If peanut M&Ms correlate with weight loss, I could see earning another degree…
@AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic
Computer Science. The project was to write a compiler for Lambda Calculus.
Actually, I think mere reading, of anything that requires thought, will do it. I notice after some days of reading my guts out, my verbal acuity markedly improves.
The mind (brain?) is very much like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
@ecsd @AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic Oh, cool! It's not open source, is it?
@hosford42 @AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic
{laughs} I never wrote it. Since it's a common enough application {believe it or not}, others would have written dozens of variations.
P.s.: if you think it sounds 'glamorous', there is already a well-known language that does it: LISP. Common Lisp, dude.
See also the game "Wff'n'Proof", "wff" = "well-formed formula". Lambda Calculus is fun.
@ecsd @AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic Lisp is a little different. Very similar, though, I'll grant you.
@hosford42 @AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic
{laughs} yes. call LC and Lisp "kissing cousins."
@ScruffyDux I feel so much better when I've had some sugar, helps me relax some and helps calm me down to have some sweet treats to eat.
I wish my parents didnt think the opposite when it came to sugar, "gonna make you hyper" they said, denying me some sugar. At one point, my young mind considered sugar more important than avoiding being spanked.
"mom I ate a cookie would you spank me now?" mom thought I didnt understand consequences, when the opposite was true. I knew I felt better with sugar