Review of our LessWrong Hamburg Meetup - Diet

After I was approched a few times about another meetup I scheduled it on short notice and six of us met yesterday evening at my place.

Summary

It was an mostly unstructured talk where we discussed diet from different angles and a few other tangential topics. I also reported from my participation in the LW Berlin Meetup a few weeks ago (which led to a side-track about polyphasic sleep).

We discussed the benefits and risks of misc. dietary recommendations and seemed to agree on most points, most of which coincide with those discussed on LW before:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jrt/lifestyle_interventions_to_increase_longevity
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/121/21/2271.short

Links about polyphasic sleep:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep
http://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/overviews/segmented-sleep/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip6/polyphasic_sleep_seed_study_reprise/

Other links for topics discussed during the meetup (for reference):

http://www.wired.com/2010/12/kids-study-bees/
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056
http://littlebits.cc/
http://code.org/learn

There will be further meetups which will be scheduled via doodle.de (and then announced on the mailing-list).

Other LW Hamburg Meetup reviews

Third Meetup Notes: Small Steps Forward
Second Meetup Notes: In need of Structure
First Meetup Notes: Starting small