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Basically, I've been eating what our ancestors ate: lots of fat, butter, cheese, fish, red meat (I eat mostly bison), ton of eggs, dark chocolate, heavy whipping cream protein shakes, and a little bit of yam and veggies here and there.
I eat virtually no sugar (though I do have to have it in my tea, but it's not much) and drink lots of tea. My carb intake is extremely small.
results? Best shape of my life, blood tests are spectacular, no longer take Omega3 fish oil.
Back in the early 1900s, a French explorer met with the Eskimos in the Yukon and he subsisted on nothing but fish and red meat. There were no other forms of foods. No veggies grew up there. The result after 2 years? Extremely healthy and became a major study that is now known pretty much as the Atkins or even parts of the South Beach Diet.
I do exercise, but we're not seeing evidence exercise helps with weight loss. The only real reason that exercising seems to help with weight loss is because people generally eat healthier. Exercise is important for a number of reasons, but weight management and controlling disease risk are not on the list, at least according to the best available evidence.
My ancestors ate a lot of those foods, and most of them died of heart attacks and aneurisms, clogged arteries, strokes, and diabetes-related deaths.
Thankfully, there have shifts in the way our ancestors have eaten - we aren't doomed to repeat their mistakes just because "that's how it always used to be."
Nowadays, the salad *can* be the main course, with the protein being a single ingredient in the salad (like sliced broiled chicken breast, cajun seasoned and tossed in a caesar salad). Now, there are a variety of lean meats, and the option to cook smaller portion sizes than you get at restaurants - and even some restaurants are offering smaller portion sizes at lower prices to accommodate people who understand the calories in/calories out theory...
A happy, less-fed customer, will return for many more happy less-fed meals. I think it's awesome.
I can eat that rice pilaf and the mini-loaf of bread with garlic butter, because I'm also eating grilled salmon and a fat bowl of wild greens with sunflower seeds and raisins and gorgonzola vinegraitte dressing on the side.
So yeah I'm eating red meat. Not every day, and not in huge portions. I put real butter on my bread, not margarine. Both are fat, but butter has better nutritional value. My protein intake is on the high end of moderate, but it's still moderate. My sugar and carb intake is also moderate most days, some days I just can't say no to bread. I'm not much of a sugar hog, 2 spoons in my single cup of coffee in the morning, and whatever sugar is in my mid-day fiber bar snack. That's pretty much it, most days.
My ancestors ate a lot of those foods, and most of them died of heart attacks and aneurisms, clogged arteries, strokes, and diabetes-related deaths.
Humm. Did they smoke? Red meat eaters tend to smoke, and also often ate other bad foods. Red meat eaters don't really care about their health...so that's why you get all of that bad press on how red meat is bad for you.
Humm. Did they smoke? Red meat eaters tend to smoke, and also often ate other bad foods. Red meat eaters don't really care about their health...so that's why you get all of that bad press on how red meat is bad for you.
I love red meat. Had some for dinner tonight. I do not smoke, I care about my health, am very fit and my doctor thinks I am doing great on all counts. So take your red meat scare tactics and peddle them elsewhere.
Humm. Did they smoke? Red meat eaters tend to smoke, and also often ate other bad foods. Red meat eaters don't really care about their health...so that's why you get all of that bad press on how red meat is bad for you.
They probably combined all that fat with sugars as well which is a deadly combination.
There's really no foods in nature that combine high levels of both fat and sugar.
Oh and to answer your initial question... yes <raises hand>. Although i do try to eat my veggies along with some berries and some other fruit.
Don't expect much love around these parts though. "Moderation is key" gets the popular vote here.
Humm. Did they smoke? Red meat eaters tend to smoke, and also often ate other bad foods. Red meat eaters don't really care about their health...so that's why you get all of that bad press on how red meat is bad for you.
You eat red meat. You stated it in your first sentence of this thread. I also find your 'diet' preposterous. You cannot do fat and sugar together and hope for anything other than a heart attack at some point.
You contradicted yourself when you said you ate dark chocolate and then went on to say you don's eat sugar except for the amount you put in your tea. I smell a troll.
The amount of sugar in a few squares really dark chocolate (75% and up) is negligible compared to the amount of sugar most people put in their bodies. The organic dark chocolate I have in front of me right now obtains its sugar from beets. No other added sugars. Then add in the beneficial effects of dark chocolate and you have a winner.
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