Most people today are sick and getting sicker by the day. There are a number of reasons why. One of the main ones is the fact that they are filling their bodies with FOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCES - not real food! Every time I go to the grocery store, I look at all the garbage that people throw into their carts. It's disgusting! The majority of them don't have any produce at all; just bottles, bags, packages, boxes...all ultra processed, nutritionless junk! Everything today is about "CONVENIENCE"!
You are missing one seriously bad food that most people eat all the time
SEED OILS
Originally created to lubricate industrial machinery, the process to make these is revolting and they are highly inflammatory. We are full carnivore so cook only with lard, tallow and butter. But you can saute fine with good Olive oil (don't fry) or such as Coconut and Avocado oil.
Yeah - it's astounding. I'm pretty fit - 72 now - but very active and not sedentary. 6'5" and was 14 stone - ok weight for my size. Dropped 20lbs in 6 weeks - visceral fat and water I guess, now stable around 12 stone 10lbs, BP very good and feel great. You will probably find a mood uplift as well.
Another goody - cold plunges. We have a small ice tub in the back garden, which we use daily - 3 minutes. Best when colder! We had a severe frosty spell when it was just over 0 degrees C and you get a real kick from that. We use freezer packs to cool it down when milder - below 10 degrees C seems to be best. Now getting addicted ! 😁
Sounds like you have hit the nail on the head for your health. Great work!! Another aspect I have come across is the impact of light on wellbeing, specifically sunlight. There is a Dr Jack Kruse on YouTube who explains it (over my head mostly) and it is very interesting. Cheers.
I believe that it was canola oil (Rapeseed) that was used to lubricate machinery. They are all bad and all GMO - Corn, Soy, Canola and Cottonseed; and they are in most processed "food". Watch out for olive oil...much of it is adulterated/fake, like so many others. Society is drowning in lies and deception. A large percentage of that, comes from the "food" industry - very large!
Yup. We're lucky living in rural Somerset England - butcher checks all his sources, all grass fed, farmer we've known 20 years the same from their farm shop. Carnivore is super eco friendly. Food miles minimal - only regulars I buy not local are tea and coffee, food waste NIL. Dog gets any gristly fat we can't eat, and tea bags and egg shells go in the compost. No beans from Kenya, no Asparagus from Peru, no processed food, and the only labelled food tea, coffee and butter and milk
But not all seed oils are bad surely. You mention olive oil (which I produce, with no treatments at all - no chemicals), & coconut & avocado.
I also use flax oil - which has the best omega3 to 6 ratio - and blackseed oil. I use these on salads or just add a bit to meals before eating. My partner used to get joint pain years ago but hardly ever does since we began using these oils.
As they say, it’s best to shop the perimeter of the grocery store, rather than the middle. The produce department staff and I are on first name basis and so too with the meat and cheese department! I grew up eating home cooked meals and still cook every day. While I’m in my 70’s, I have many younger friends as well and am encouraged to see them embracing scratch cooking and homemade meals. Several have asked my guidance in gardening, canning and bread making. They tell me many of their friends are doing the same. Hopefully the trend continues.
In my 60’s over here, and we do the same. Left overs become the lunch I carry the next day. I refuse to eat fast foods, and the water I drink is (from my well) put into glass containers on ice in my cooler. Usually carry a lemon along to squeeze into it…
I did the same with my lunches for my entire work life. I was always astounded by my co-workers who went out to lunch every day, then complained about making ends meet. What always gets me are people who don’t like leftovers! Quite the 1st world problem for them!
We have a vegetable garden. Each time I cook veg, I keep the water I cooked it in. I put it in the fridge & the next day it becomes the stock for a soup. No goodness wasted!
Great list! I often suggest to people to cut out all processed seed oils, refined carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, corn syrup etc), and refined meats and fill those voids with fruits, vegetables, legumes, and clean animal products. Big food giant companies do so many horrible things to food today, it’s so sad.
Yes! We grow and raise a lot of our food and buy our meat that we can’t raise ourselves from our neighbors and local farms. None of them vaccinate their animals or feed them crap. It costs a little more but it’s 100% worth it.
I think the fact that "they" are still selling SPAM in a can and people are buying and eating it - says it all! If I had a dog or cat, I wouldn't feed it that toxic garbage!
Yeah - we're on that too! I'm a happy gardener, so come the spring (I guess it will get here in England eventually, we've had endless rain for months) I'm out in the garden for hours. Plus a dog to walk.
This woman - Sarah Pugh - has helped my wife a lot; she's big on light. This is a really interesting talk on diet and mental health she gave on Bart Kay's channel (both worth subscribing to - Pen has worked and talked with both). Sara Pugh's a biochemist and knows her shit on food - goes deep, but very clear in her presentations.
Good luck with the carnivore diet - it truly is life changing
This guy's funny as well - https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnBakerMD - a while back he put up a short video by a 75 year old working class woman from Lancashire in England, who had somehow stumbled across Shawn, gone carnivore, and shed all the meds she'd been taking for years. He's also very funny on the subject of Vegans 🤣
He's fully carnivore. Get's all the gristly fat we can't eat. We buy steak bulk in joints. Got some very poor "ribeye" a while back, and complained like hell. They refunded it and Bear lived off this for over 6 weeks! He has beef mince and offal as his fall back from a local farmer's shop and always get a lump of liver when we have it, in the blood. He's a very happy dog - never eaten kibble.
Well we both love hot weather, and my wife who struggled with heatwaves now fine since going carnivore!
Cold plunges are a barrier to bet over. It seems that when habituated, you get a bigger and much longer lasting dopamine hit than from cocaine! I'm up early, and it's mild here - water temp around 10 degrees C, so will shortly go out and put a dozen or do freezer packs in the tub to chill the water.
"Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions "
And being 72, as a child all our cooking was done with lard and tallow, a bowl of which every mum had in the kitchen. As we do. Women particularly benefit from saturated fat, and their fat ration in the body needs to be much higher than men. I gather a high ration helps hugely with menopause.
Most people today are sick and getting sicker by the day. There are a number of reasons why. One of the main ones is the fact that they are filling their bodies with FOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCES - not real food! Every time I go to the grocery store, I look at all the garbage that people throw into their carts. It's disgusting! The majority of them don't have any produce at all; just bottles, bags, packages, boxes...all ultra processed, nutritionless junk! Everything today is about "CONVENIENCE"!
You are missing one seriously bad food that most people eat all the time
SEED OILS
Originally created to lubricate industrial machinery, the process to make these is revolting and they are highly inflammatory. We are full carnivore so cook only with lard, tallow and butter. But you can saute fine with good Olive oil (don't fry) or such as Coconut and Avocado oil.
Any number of videos on YouTube on this subject
🎯. Totally agree. Just started carnivore…. What a change. 🤓
Yeah - it's astounding. I'm pretty fit - 72 now - but very active and not sedentary. 6'5" and was 14 stone - ok weight for my size. Dropped 20lbs in 6 weeks - visceral fat and water I guess, now stable around 12 stone 10lbs, BP very good and feel great. You will probably find a mood uplift as well.
Another goody - cold plunges. We have a small ice tub in the back garden, which we use daily - 3 minutes. Best when colder! We had a severe frosty spell when it was just over 0 degrees C and you get a real kick from that. We use freezer packs to cool it down when milder - below 10 degrees C seems to be best. Now getting addicted ! 😁
Sounds like you have hit the nail on the head for your health. Great work!! Another aspect I have come across is the impact of light on wellbeing, specifically sunlight. There is a Dr Jack Kruse on YouTube who explains it (over my head mostly) and it is very interesting. Cheers.
So many people recommend cold plunges. I’ve tried - but I just can’t bear the cold! I’m a hot weather, hot water girl!
I believe that it was canola oil (Rapeseed) that was used to lubricate machinery. They are all bad and all GMO - Corn, Soy, Canola and Cottonseed; and they are in most processed "food". Watch out for olive oil...much of it is adulterated/fake, like so many others. Society is drowning in lies and deception. A large percentage of that, comes from the "food" industry - very large!
https://worstbrands.com/fake-olive-oil-brands-to-avoid/
https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-the-difference-between-real-and-fake-olive-oil-article
Yup. We're lucky living in rural Somerset England - butcher checks all his sources, all grass fed, farmer we've known 20 years the same from their farm shop. Carnivore is super eco friendly. Food miles minimal - only regulars I buy not local are tea and coffee, food waste NIL. Dog gets any gristly fat we can't eat, and tea bags and egg shells go in the compost. No beans from Kenya, no Asparagus from Peru, no processed food, and the only labelled food tea, coffee and butter and milk
Please give your dog some of the meat too, from time to time. It’ll make his day!
I see this advice everywhere.
But not all seed oils are bad surely. You mention olive oil (which I produce, with no treatments at all - no chemicals), & coconut & avocado.
I also use flax oil - which has the best omega3 to 6 ratio - and blackseed oil. I use these on salads or just add a bit to meals before eating. My partner used to get joint pain years ago but hardly ever does since we began using these oils.
As they say, it’s best to shop the perimeter of the grocery store, rather than the middle. The produce department staff and I are on first name basis and so too with the meat and cheese department! I grew up eating home cooked meals and still cook every day. While I’m in my 70’s, I have many younger friends as well and am encouraged to see them embracing scratch cooking and homemade meals. Several have asked my guidance in gardening, canning and bread making. They tell me many of their friends are doing the same. Hopefully the trend continues.
In my 60’s over here, and we do the same. Left overs become the lunch I carry the next day. I refuse to eat fast foods, and the water I drink is (from my well) put into glass containers on ice in my cooler. Usually carry a lemon along to squeeze into it…
I did the same with my lunches for my entire work life. I was always astounded by my co-workers who went out to lunch every day, then complained about making ends meet. What always gets me are people who don’t like leftovers! Quite the 1st world problem for them!
We have a vegetable garden. Each time I cook veg, I keep the water I cooked it in. I put it in the fridge & the next day it becomes the stock for a soup. No goodness wasted!
Great list! I often suggest to people to cut out all processed seed oils, refined carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, corn syrup etc), and refined meats and fill those voids with fruits, vegetables, legumes, and clean animal products. Big food giant companies do so many horrible things to food today, it’s so sad.
And buy local direct from farmers if you can. They’re trying to take away our ability to do that as well.
Yes! We grow and raise a lot of our food and buy our meat that we can’t raise ourselves from our neighbors and local farms. None of them vaccinate their animals or feed them crap. It costs a little more but it’s 100% worth it.
I think the fact that "they" are still selling SPAM in a can and people are buying and eating it - says it all! If I had a dog or cat, I wouldn't feed it that toxic garbage!
no wonder intermittent fasting is now demonized!
That was SO predictable!
I.F. was getting talked about, recommended, becoming more popular.
The LAST thing Pharma wants is people getting healthy or losing weight!
"Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
~ Michael Pollan
For the under 40 crowd, don’t eat anything. your great grandmother would not recognize.
As long as we are cutting toxic foods, why not cut out all drugs? They are even more toxic chemical fabrications that are enemies to your good health.
Alcohol..... It’s ETHANOL. Poison!
I always say, be mindful of what you consume from a box or a can!
Natural Whole Foods will always be best. There is a huge cost to the so called convenience foods!
Yeah - we're on that too! I'm a happy gardener, so come the spring (I guess it will get here in England eventually, we've had endless rain for months) I'm out in the garden for hours. Plus a dog to walk.
This woman - Sarah Pugh - has helped my wife a lot; she's big on light. This is a really interesting talk on diet and mental health she gave on Bart Kay's channel (both worth subscribing to - Pen has worked and talked with both). Sara Pugh's a biochemist and knows her shit on food - goes deep, but very clear in her presentations.
We are creatures of the sun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEo8JNAgBB4&t=6s&pp=ygUSYmFydCBrYXkgc2FyYSBwdWdo
https://www.youtube.com/@bart-kay
https://www.youtube.com/@Thebusysuperhuman
Good luck with the carnivore diet - it truly is life changing
This guy's funny as well - https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnBakerMD - a while back he put up a short video by a 75 year old working class woman from Lancashire in England, who had somehow stumbled across Shawn, gone carnivore, and shed all the meds she'd been taking for years. He's also very funny on the subject of Vegans 🤣
Sure picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue... ✈️
Lol!🤣🤣
Damn! Cheese?!?! Aaaaaahhhhhggghh!
bsn
Processed cheese like Velveeta. Quality cheeses are fine.
Thank goodness!! I get the Tillamook cheddar at Costco…and I love it.
Thanks for the clarification.
bsn
Goat’s cheese, sheep’s cheese...
Wonderful when you know the shepherd & meet the animals!
Generally agree with your take but please lay off of salt. Guess what happens if you get too much? You pee it out.
He's fully carnivore. Get's all the gristly fat we can't eat. We buy steak bulk in joints. Got some very poor "ribeye" a while back, and complained like hell. They refunded it and Bear lived off this for over 6 weeks! He has beef mince and offal as his fall back from a local farmer's shop and always get a lump of liver when we have it, in the blood. He's a very happy dog - never eaten kibble.
Well we both love hot weather, and my wife who struggled with heatwaves now fine since going carnivore!
Cold plunges are a barrier to bet over. It seems that when habituated, you get a bigger and much longer lasting dopamine hit than from cocaine! I'm up early, and it's mild here - water temp around 10 degrees C, so will shortly go out and put a dozen or do freezer packs in the tub to chill the water.
Check this lass out!
https://www.youtube.com/@itskyajeub
and her smile!
You can do it! My wife was clear she couldn't - but yesterday went river swimming with four friends 😊
I wish I could show you the diagram I have of how seed oils are made. Home made definitely better for sure. Look on the images tab of this search -
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=how+seed+oils+are+made&segment=startpage.brave
and there are many images. Certainly, we are thriving on cooking with saturated animal fat which of course we are all told will kill us...
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111
"Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions "
And being 72, as a child all our cooking was done with lard and tallow, a bowl of which every mum had in the kitchen. As we do. Women particularly benefit from saturated fat, and their fat ration in the body needs to be much higher than men. I gather a high ration helps hugely with menopause.