Performance Engineering

I believe that issues related to nutrition (and by that I mean what we ourselves eat) are among the most debated and controversial. 
In countries where the standard of living is high, our thoughts about food look like a battlefield where pleasure and duty, good and bad are fighting an endless war, from which we are usually left beaten.

Regarding food, most people in the industrialized world seem to act as if desire were shameful, and pleasure some kind of shortcoming. They behave as though the decision on what is occasionally appropriate and what should be avoided were monitored from above by a sort of god, ready to strike if its rules are broken.

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