The information that willpower is a limited resource which must be managed carefully is very useful, and I think it would change how many people make decisions.
It also has the potential to challenge the popular concept of laziness- if willpower isn’t an infinite resource that comes out of thin air than it’s not morally wrong to refuse to waste it on something, when you have a more important goal to direct it towards.
However, I think the medical information on blood glucose here is wrong. Metabolically healthy people can eat a reasonable quantity of high glycemic index/load foods, and never experience a low enough glucose crash to inhibit willpower later on even if they decide to transition all the way into a long term fast afterwards. Sure, abnormally low blood glucose inhibits willpower but not within the range of normal healthy glucose fluctuations but only in a person with mild reactive hypoglycemia- usually related to mild insulin resistance.
While a pathological condition, insulin resistance has become almost ubiquitous in the United States in the past few decades (the metabolic syndrome epidemic). Metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance is not actually caused by high glycemic index foods, it’s symptoms are simply exasperated by them in the short term. Also, glycemic index of isolated foods is somewhat irrelevant because food combinations have very different combined properties. For example, a baked potato with butter causes glucose levels to rise much slower than a plain baked potato.
I would need to give a lot more information here to fully clarify the evidence behind this position, however it’s somewhat tangential to this thread.
The information that willpower is a limited resource which must be managed carefully is very useful, and I think it would change how many people make decisions.
It also has the potential to challenge the popular concept of laziness- if willpower isn’t an infinite resource that comes out of thin air than it’s not morally wrong to refuse to waste it on something, when you have a more important goal to direct it towards.
However, I think the medical information on blood glucose here is wrong. Metabolically healthy people can eat a reasonable quantity of high glycemic index/load foods, and never experience a low enough glucose crash to inhibit willpower later on even if they decide to transition all the way into a long term fast afterwards. Sure, abnormally low blood glucose inhibits willpower but not within the range of normal healthy glucose fluctuations but only in a person with mild reactive hypoglycemia- usually related to mild insulin resistance.
While a pathological condition, insulin resistance has become almost ubiquitous in the United States in the past few decades (the metabolic syndrome epidemic). Metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance is not actually caused by high glycemic index foods, it’s symptoms are simply exasperated by them in the short term. Also, glycemic index of isolated foods is somewhat irrelevant because food combinations have very different combined properties. For example, a baked potato with butter causes glucose levels to rise much slower than a plain baked potato.
I would need to give a lot more information here to fully clarify the evidence behind this position, however it’s somewhat tangential to this thread.
I don’t think anyone would object if you gave us links and studies to follow up on...