A reasonable starting point on what it means to physically live a good life. Good review of caloric restriction. Emotional health better in Harvard Study. Nutrition better in How not to Die. Fitness better in: Bigger Leaner Stronger Sleep in more detail of: Why we sleep. More to come.
** 15th book of 2020: Science Says… Emotions Matter ** Parenting is about brain development. This isn’t a science, it’s an art. Yet like most toddler ‘artists’, we parents don’t have much experience or instruction, making our art something only a parent could love. Indeed, beyond our own children, most of our experience with parenting is the n=1 exercise of remembering what our parents did for us. So even if parenting is an art, I’d like to rely on the science. Unlike Expecting Better (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2809106496?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1), which takes an economist-skeptic’s view of things that parents shouldn’t do, brain-rules takes a credulous approach to the meagre state of the literature when it comes to parenting and what matters to kids. ...
A dishonest book in every way, but not bad.