The one side effect of LCHF/ketogenic eating that may be lasting is the one that is likely to make physicians most anxious. This is the effect on LDL cholesterol, the “bad” cholesterol, as it’s known in the conventional thinking. As discussed earlier, the common wisdom on a healthy diet is driven disproportionately by thinking about this single number—LDL cholesterol—and the unwarranted belief that it is a strong predictor of heart disease risk.
Reducing this chronic inactivity is even more essential than brief periods of vigorous exercise.
Finally, and most important to Tocqueville, the French put equality above liberty. In sum, they chose Rousseau over Locke.
The West, says Joseph Needham, locates reality in substance, whereas the East finds it in relationship.
It follows that the subject-matter of history is not the past as such, but the past for which we possess historical evidence. Much of the past has perished, in the sense that we have no documents for reconstructing it.
Delos’s brilliant analyses of the development of nationalism into totalitarianism overlook its equally intimate connection with imperialism—which is mentioned only in a footnote. And neither the racism of modern nationalism nor the power-craziness of the modern state can be explained without a proper understanding of the structure of imperialism.
