There are two ideas that have been eating away at my brain lately (not literally).
One is an underlying theme seen in the society I have grown up in- that is, the south eastern United States. It’s probably prevalent in most (if not all) parts of the world, but I won’t speak outside of my experience in this situation. If it applies to where you live, you’ll know- without question.
The other is a bit more specific to nutrition and health, and branches off the first topic. Be forewarned though, both of these are likely to stir emotions, and get a lot of people riled up (or, so I assume).
With that said, remain objective, read along, and let me know your thoughts.
Flip the Script
For as long as I’ve studied nutrition, there has always been an abundance of nay sayers- regardless of my current stance, which is probably the most puzzling part (at first).
Why is it puzzling?
Because more often than not the typical nay sayer has done little to no research of their own- they are just spewing out what they’ve heard from friends, the government, people pushing products or private agendas, or what they learned growing up from their parents.
An auto-response of sorts.
The problem with all of these sources of information is the lack of a search for the truth. In all cases, the advice is tainted in some way, shape or form.
Why is this a problem?
Aside from the multiple of billions of dollars spent (yearly) on completely preventable diseases, and the ensuing pain, discomfort, inconvenience, and pre-mature deaths- it’s the epitome of human ignorance and a complete disconnect from what makes us uniquely human- our brains, and the ability to reason.
To clarify, in nearly any situation where uncertainty is prevalent (nutrition for example), we choose the path that everyone else is taking- the path with the most “certainty”.
I’ve seen it so many times it’s beginning to make me sick to my stomach- especially when I’m forced to see the consequences of this choice.
The most clear cut example would be my personal intake of saturated fat and cholesterol- it’s been dramatically higher than “the norm” for many months now. Most of my friends know this- yet it still makes them uncomfortable to see me eat this way.
Why?
Because every time I eat a dozen eggs, a large steak, a huge chunk of butter, or an entire can of coconut milk- they think (as far as I can tell)
- I’m “clogging” my arteries
- I’m going to have a heart attack
- I’ve bought into some fad (and my health will suffer as a result, see above)
- _________(fill in the blank with appropriate knee-jerk response)
Not only are these thoughts false and scientifically- well, downright silly- but in fact, not eating an abundance of saturated fat- and even cholesterol to an extent- may promote health problems in the distant or not so distant future.
And it goes without saying, replacing those 2 items with “franken fats” as I’ve seen them called- corn and soy oil (among others)- will undoubtedly cause severe health problems in a long enough time span, no matter who you are.
But going back to the eating of copious amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol- I want to stress a point that this illustrates perfectly.
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If you follow the crowd, 99 times out of a 100, you will f*** yourself over- hard. It’s that simple. If you do what everyone else is doing (the comfortable route), you will almost always be choosing the wrong path.
Nutrition is probably the best example I can give- although exercise follows close behind.
What’s the solution though?
It would appear to be- just don’t follow the crowd.
But, fortunately for us, life is not that simple- that’s merely a starting point. Once you realize the majority is almost always wrong- and in fact, often diametrically opposed to what actually works- you are now in the minority.
This is not good enough though.
Why?
Herd thinking continues to permeate the promoted ideas. A great example is the raw food movement. A friend of mine is a big fan of eating mostly, or all, raw food.
While I would bet money that this is better than the Standard American Diet of fast food, pizza- and oh wait, actually just a bunch of corn with a hint of soy- it’s not far enough in the right direction to call “healthy”, in my opinion.
It kind of works like this (if you are familiar with the 80/20 rule)… the 80/20 rule is wrong.
In real life it’s more like 80/19/1.
80% of people screw up important ideas, severely (think SAD diet, US Food Pyramid, or cardio junkies).
People in this category are generally unaware of the fact that when people form together in large groups and decide on something, they are often very, very wrong.
19% do a bit better, but still don’t get it right (think RAW diet or cross fit).
In this category, most people defend their position pretty passionately, because they believe they have “found the one true way”, and are now “above conventional wisdom”. The reality is they only took one step above it, and are now biting into a whole new conventional wisdom, group think pie.
If they are aware of the 1% (that follows), they will often attempt to take small pieces of their ideology and apply it to their position- or label them “extremists” (without giving it much thought, usually). A “raw” dieter, who then finds a “paleo” style diet, and becomes a “raw paleo” dieter is a good example of someone who takes only part of what they believe to be true, and applies it to what they are currently doing and have done for some time- I was once in this category.
While an additional step in the right direction, this is faulty thinking on a fundamental level. For example, if our ancestors ate primarily meat (and you won’t be eating pounds upon pounds of raw meat a day anytime soon) how could you ever really eat “raw AND “paleo”? It’s contradictory. It’s no different than living off of nothing but apples and other fruits- and then claiming respect for evolution’s role in nutrition (because ancient man ate fruit on rare occasions).
About 1% of the population ever does anything effectively, efficiently, or properly- you name it.
People in this category may still be pretty passionate about their position, but now recognize it’s not as simple as “mainstream or non-mainstream” (with any subject). They begin to realize the existence of the above two groups (awareness).
In this last category, all real progress is made. Why progress you ask? Because even then it’s rare that anything is really set in stone. Most of the “major concepts” will be agreed upon at this point, but the details will still be argued (and with good reason).
The only pitfall of this final category is mistaking extremist thinking for the truth (which may, or may not be “extreme”).
What am I suggesting?
Questioning everything of course, including minority viewpoints, and extreme viewpoints (either of which may be the “truth”).
But perhaps more importantly, IMMEDIATELY questioning your position if you fall in line with the majority.
Saturated fat and cholesterol being the easiest examples.
Just try eating a dozen whole eggs fried in coconut oil (pure saturated fat) in front of your friends/family, or tell your local dietician about this delicious and nutritious meal- they will shriek in terror at your arteries that will somehow magically become clogged.
Don’t mind those “healthy” whole grains that actually contribute to heart disease- those are recommended by the American Heart Association as well as the WHO, and of course the US Government’s Food Pyramid of Unlimited Ignorance.
Again, if you fall into line with the majority, immediately re-examine your position- especially with nutrition- it will cost you your life if you don’t.
At the very least, a host of diseases and ailments that will plague you from your youth to the grave.
And hey, just think it through. Could a large group of uninformed individuals really be “right” with an unbiased and unwarranted fear of something (anything) they know little to nothing about? From my experience, NO, hellllll no. This needs to immediately cause concern, if it doesn’t already, with any subject.
Screw following the crowd, flip the script and…
Stay Healthy
Okay so here’s another fun topic I’d like to poke some holes in- staying healthy, consistently.
What’s most interesting to me in this subject (for simplicities sake, we’ll say getting “sick”), are the abundant rationalizations. For one, they are anything but isolated- nearly everyone I have ever met is guilty of this, myself included at some points.
It usually goes like this…
A.Person get’s sick
B.Person either runs to the doctor, grabs some OTC substances, or hopefully waits for it to go away
C.When the dis-ease doesn’t go away, the following is usually stated (almost universally).
“I don’t know what’s up, I usually never get sick”
This used to bother me- because I have never met anyone in my life who doesn’t get sick at least fairly often- until I saw the pattern across a broad scale- it’s an ego thing.
Actually, I can name less than a handful of people, but they are the exception, and thus prove the rule.
Additionally, I believe raw diet guru David Wolfe also falls prey to this defense mechanism, perhaps more intensely than most, being in the authoritative position that he is on the subject.
Most people can’t admit that kind of vulnerability/weakness- as if catching a cold or some other dis-ease actually devalues your worth as a person.
I used to catch myself saying the same thing- although I can safely say now that I have not been “sick”, to any degree, for more than a day, in a very long time. I know this because once I decided to drastically change how I ate, I also decided to keep track of my illnesses.
Thus far, nothing to keep track of =) (nothing that lasted for more than part of 1 day anyway).
Isn’t that interesting?
I suppose the reality is that in accordance with this mental defense mechanism, most people have no idea how frequently they actually get sick, they just sort of guess (and usually guess quite low, from my estimation).
Fun fact- I lived with two women last year.
They ate a SAD, and usually stated the above line- or a version of it- about never getting sick (or, rationalized it away with some sort of “sudden” stress, which was never sudden, always a constant stream).
Know how often they got sick or had some sort of physical ailment? Almost monthly- both of them. Literally, month in, and month out. Sniffles, head aches, run down, sneezing, you name it.
Of course, if they were to read this, they would deny this- yet I distinctly remembering saying to myself, do they really not see this? This is a recurring theme that has gone on since we have lived together- and likely, most of their lives.
Week after week, month after month.
But most people don’t want to face the truth, they would rather do what’s comfortable (what everyone else does), and rationalize away reality- as if closing your eyes somehow eliminated the hard facts (virtually every month we lived together I watched one or both of them get sick, sometimes in unison).
I’ll end this post with a short story of my current room mate, and some bullet point advice.
Not long ago, he started focusing on improving his body composition- and was met with some impressive initial success (around 30 pounds of weight loss, while increasing muscle mass).
This included various types of training, including high intensity training, but more importantly, eating better.
Broad scale diet and exercise advice are outside the scope of this post, but it works like so- eating properly will drive fat loss. Exercising properly will increase muscle mass, and accelerate fat loss (but pales in comparison to the role of eating correctly).
Note, real exercise does burn a substantial amounts of calories, but this aspect is largely irrelevant in what is for the most part, a game of hormones.
The basic premise is this- you can dramatically change your body composition by combining these 2 factors. For most people not currently training, if you were to pack on 5 pounds of muscle in a month (not uncommon), and lose only 6 pounds of body fat- you’ve just made a huge jump in the right direction in terms of bodily leanness.
Of course, think about how this will look on a scale. Only lost 1 pound? Yikes, time to quit for most people, even though they just made a MASSIVE improvement. Sucks how that works huh? Lesson being don’t worry about the scale much, if at all.
Back to my room mate, not long ago, he suddenly stopped eating better- for reasons unknown. He also stopped exercising as far as I know.
His diet now consists primarily of what everyone else eats around UCF- fast food, pizza, sandwiches, etc.
What are fast food, pizza, sandwhiches, and so on? (besides massive amounts of carbohydrate).
Stripped down to the nitty gritty- good tasting poison. That’s kind of a blanket way to look at it, and not 100% true across a grand scale, but a decent enough phrase.
And not only are they literally poisonous to your body, but 9 times out of 10, those food items spike your insulin through the roof.
Combine that with the sudden lack of a positive hormonal tidal wave ( proper exercise), and guess what happens first?
He gets sick.
Of course, this is merely an observation- and a million and one variables are involved- but I can’t imagine it being a coincidence.
What he has I’m not exactly sure, but he is on anti-biotics for an ear infection, coughs frequently, and I believe has had head aches as well.
Better yet, this has gone on for over a week now. Perhaps two? (more in a minute).
Interesting to say the least.
To finish, let’s take a look at some words of advice on…
How to Not Get Sick
First- and this is important- try to refrain from ever using OTC substances, for anything. 99 times our of 100, they will simply prolong your dis-ease, and only mask the symptoms for a short time (at best).
At worst…well hell read the label. There’s a reason they always list the “possible side effects” as rapidly as possible on TV- because they suck.
Why do they pro-long symptoms?
When something is wrong, your body tries to fix it. Believe it or not, this is how we largely dealt with illness for a few million years. You have something wrong with your digestive system? You either throw up, or it comes out the other end…
Mucus, runny nose, lots of sneezing? There’s a reason people say to cover your nose- it seems we’ve forgotten- this is how your body get’s rid of illness, literally, this is your body discharging what it needs to GET OUT.
Even a mild fever (please go to the hospital if it is severe) is a way in which your body fights dis-ease, by heating up.
Now think for a second what all those OTC drugs, and most prescription drugs do- they temporarily eliminate symptoms (or in the case of often over-prescribed anti-biotics, kill everything).
Your immune system was hard at work fighting something off, and big pharma has the wonderful idea to suddenly stop this process- by “stopping you up”, drying your nose up, or reducing your mild fever.
Great, so now you can stay sick longer, risk annoying (or dangerous) side effects, and continue to buy OTC drugs in an effort to avoid immediate dis-comfort.
The ironic thing is that your body most often already provides the quickest fix.
Granted you are eating right, getting enough sleep, and so on.
This is why even before I ate properly, I was never sick for more than a day (usually). I haven’t taken a pill since…I don’t even know. Early high school?
You simply don’t need them, and most often only sacrifice short term relief for longer term pain. It’s a dumb move honestly.
Beyond that, you can eat right, and exercise right. If you get sick, continue to eat right, but stop exercising. At most walk, or something similar in intensity.
There are lots of little tips about boosting your immunity floating around the internet- the only one I would bank on is saturated fat (especially coconut oil), and staying hydrated with nothing but water. There are likely more that “work”, but it’s pretty hit and miss for any substantial benefit/difference.
And finally, get plenty of sun. This is as important as any other aspect of staying healthy, and not suffering from common ailments that most people do. Read about it here, and here.
At the moment, I personally get at least 2-3 hours a week, in the Florida sun. I wear the least amount of clothing possible- including shorts, a “wife beater”of some sort, and flip flops or Vibrams. I usually get it in ~20 minute bursts on the way to class and back, but sometimes I’ll be in the sun for up to an hour, riding far, or hanging out at a pool.
-Anthony
Superb post, interesting to see how logical arguments against CW can be…..I especially liked your section about not taking over the counter medication, its something I always strongly believed in and whenever I am ill (rarely) I just relax, eat good and sleep, deal with a bit of pain but it passes and my body deals with the virus and move on…..
I would be interested to see what you recommend for Vitamin D supplementation for those not lucky enough to live in a sunny climate….
dude totally agree…. everybody complains that i eat 2 whole eggs daily in the morning and yet i never get sick, my only sickness in the last 2 years have been food poisoning that kept me vomiting but thats it….
about the scale, i don’t watch that thing measuresments matter not the scale.. i have manage to lose 4 inches in my belly and i weight 10 pounds heavier than when i started a month ago
Petermike
@Chris
Thanks for commenting. As for supplements and OTC drugs, I don’t believe they are one in the same- although like you, I stay away from both more often than not (especially OTC drugs).
As for not living in a sunny climate…oh man, never! Ha, I hate being cold. Central Florida is cold enough as it is, I need to head south! =).
But, I have thought about issues like Vitamind D on occasion for traveling purposes. In that situation, if I were to be without much sun for a long enough time span, I would consider taking Vitamind D supplements (Dr Mike talks about these). However, my first move would to just eat more foods /w Vitamind D already in them (fish and egg yolks).
However, if I for some reason lived where it was rarely sunny (or yearly it was just so cold I couldn’t be in the sun, exposed, very much), I would place a lot more focus on Vitamin D. Not only would I focus on those foods, and try to get outside in the sun every (reasonable) chance I had, I would also take some sort of supplementation. I certainly wouldn’t like it, but I can’t imagine not- even as a white guy with moderate skin.
hope this helped
-Anthony
Dr. john berardi has a video about maintaining proper acid/base level, mentions high carb endurance athletes as most at risk…. http://www.precisionnutrition.com/acid-base-nutrition
Dream,
Once again, I’m impressed with your consistency in writing high-quality articles.
While I was reading, a bunch of thoughts came to mind so I’ll just lay all of them out.
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On naysers: Over the past 2-3 years I’ve repeatedly found myself trying admittedly weird, unconventional things. I’ve had a pretty decent amount of experience in trying to explain them to people and in some case convince them to give them a deeper look.
The approach I discovered that is by far most effective was really a shift in perspective on my behalf. Instead of trying to prove a definite point or get them to agree with me quickly I merely plant a seed and look past their gut reaction.
The goal is to simply present the information and my thoughts while getting as little of their ego involved as possible. In almost every case they will later convince themselves to learn more as they ponder the ideas we discussed.
My 65 yr old Dad has been doing HIT for 6 weeks now and loving it. I think the only reason he got comfortable with the idea of trying it was because of how I gently presented it to him over a few different occasions. (This works really well for dealing with roommate issues and things like that as well.)
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On the 19%: I think the issue here is conflicting personal values. That is certainly the case for me at the moment. What I’ve noticed is that how we decide what we eat is so complex and a persons many values affects that decision.
To illustrate, I’ll give myself as an example. If ‘personal health’ was the only value I was trying to fulfill in what I eat, I imagine I could pretty easily follow a PaleoNu type diet and be satisfied. But it isn’t. My core values as far as diet are the following:
1. Optimal personal health
2. Environmental balance
3. Scalability
As far as environmental balance, what I want is to not turn living beings into mere machines. I would rather not obliterate habitats and replace rich topsoil with GMO mono-crops. Animals die all the time in nature and I am ok with general concept of carnivory, but at some point the lack of any semblance of a legitimate life to animals we mindlessly eat crosses a boundary for me, personally.
Scalability has to do with the rest of human society. Sure, *I* may be able to afford some quality grass-fed, pasture-raised beef. But there is simply no way to scale that to the majority of the U.S. let alone the World.
To me, these are the things that are involved in my decision of what to eat. Notice the insane conflict between them – I don’t even know that there is a diet that will leave me fully-satisfied (there are just too many humans).
What if an Italian placed great value in culture/family. That would certainly pose a conflict in eliminating pasta from his/her diet.
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On proper diet: Going further, I’m finding it hard to really promote any single diet philosophy. I am extremely confident with paleoesque ideas and the science behind them (and my diet is gravitating in that direction these days) but, I was pretty damn confident about vegetarianism a year ago, after due-diligence as well.
Mostly, what I respect in people these days is making a conscious mother fucking choice about what they eat. As far as I’m concerned, anyone that is honestly approaching their diet and trying to make focused improvements is doing a commendable job. Yeah, I tend to talk about sat. fat, insulin sensitivity, coconut oil, etc., but, more than anything I just try to encourage people to think about what it is that they’re eating and make real decisions.
That last bit was pretty off-topic, but it kinda flowed with the rest so, what the hell.
As for sickness… Couldn’t agree more. I think you gotta stay hydrated and let your body do what it has done for millions of years.
Thanks for getting me thinking!
Nicky
@Nicky
Excellent comment man, thanks for taking the time to write it. Couple points…
“Over the past 2-3 years I’ve repeatedly found myself trying admittedly weird, unconventional things.”
>>>Ditto! haha. Man I’ve done so much weird stuff.
“Sure, *I* may be able to afford some quality grass-fed, pasture-raised beef. But there is simply no way to scale that to the majority of the U.S. let alone the World.”
>>>I have thought about this same issue. The thing that leaves me wondering though is the monetary health cost of eating foods that don’t belong in our diet (and feeding animals these same foods). I sincerely wonder, could we support the US, and most of the world on REAL food? I can imagine in the short term it would be difficult beyond measure…but think of the alternative- hundreds of billions of dollars- perhaps trillions in a long enough time span- spent on health problems that could have been prevented or even cured in some cases by eating “properly”. I also wonder, are we digging ourselves into a deeper hole each day we eat corn/soy/wheat etc? It’s as if the longer we support most of the world this way, the deeper we entrench ourselves. Or, IOW, we don’t want to (as a society) face hard solutions to our problems (quoted from Arthur Jones).
“What if an Italian placed great value in culture/family. That would certainly pose a conflict in eliminating pasta from his/her diet.”
>>>Yep- although, I believe if one is fully aware of the nutritional consequences of eating that type of food, I think it will be less of a problem. Would they have to stop eating pasta all together? Probably not, but reducing it to once a week or so could probably be a happy medium for most (just guessing though).
“On proper diet: Going further, I’m finding it hard to really promote any single diet philosophy. I am extremely confident with paleoesque ideas and the science behind them (and my diet is gravitating in that direction these days) but, I was pretty damn confident about vegetarianism a year ago, after due-diligence as well.”
>>>Same here, including vegetarianism. Like you, I continue to research the latest information though, and my choices are constantly evolving in a paleo direction. Like other aspects of life, it’s probably going to be a never ending journey =).
“but, more than anything I just try to encourage people to think about what it is that they’re eating and make real decisions.”
>>>>If the US could JUST do this- health care would carry little to no importance right now.
thanks for commenting Nicky
-Anthony
Dream,
Very interesting post. Living a vegan(ish) lifestyle, I have researched the positives and negatives associated with meat and non-meat eating. Why do most people that fall victim to heart disease have extremely high levels of blood cholesterol and fat in their bodies? Also, would you rather eat meat that is conventionally raised (hormones, antibiotics, CFOs) or no meat at all? Just a little food for thought and thanks for making me think hard about my food choices. I appreciate it
-Ryan
Dream,
Just wanted to say thanks for the great response. I’ve been thinking about it since I read it a few days ago. The idea of leveraging improved health to other areas of not just life but society at large is important to consider.
Here’s to the journey!
-Nicky
@Ryan
“Why do most people that fall victim to heart disease have extremely high levels of blood cholesterol and fat in their bodies?”
This question is difficult to answer in a short sentence or two, but let’s see what I can do.
Consider this- for 2-3 million years, we have eaten primarily, animals. Some cultures ate more plant matter than others, but in virtually all parts of the world, calories came primarily from animals.
The little plant matter we did consume as a species overall, was very unlike the plant matter we eat today- some of which, we NEVER ate, including grains, beans, “corn” (a very strange plant), soy, wheat, etc.
Considering that for the past 10,000 years, we have shifted our diet to a more plant based one- with grains and beans at the base, things that were non existent throughout our evolution- and heart disease has suddenly sprung up, it’s safe to observe that animals products in their natural state (and fed their natural food), are not the culprit.
Simply put, we’ve been eating them for millions of years- unlike, most plant matter eaten today. To think that they would be responsible- in their natural state- for fatal diseases, voids evolutionary biology. We never would have made it as a species if “saturated fat and cholesterol” ( which were huge components of our diet), were killing us off by the hundreds of thousands.
As for blood cholesterol levels, they are simply not driven by dietary cholesterol- which is what I assume you were referring to. Foods that do not belong in our diet- in particular corn, soy, wheat, and large amounts of fructose- will drive it up.
Furthermore, “healthy” cholesterol levels, were devised by people who knew literally nothing about proper nutrition. If eating properly (in line with evolution), they are interesting to look at, but prove little on either of the spectrum, IMO.
“Also, would you rather eat meat that is conventionally raised (hormones, antibiotics, CFOs) or no meat at all?”
I’ll put it this way, it is very, very rare I eat conventionally raised meat. Like, once or twice a year rare. The way I eat allows me to go for long stretches comfortably without any food, so I avoid conventional meat at all costs.
Without access to properly produced meat- which is easy to get thanks to the internet- I would possibly still eat meat, but it would be the leanest cuts possible- and I would replace the fat content with healthier fats such as grass fed butter and coconut oil.
*Fat is where the body stores poisons and toxins, in all animals
I would also eat some more plant matter, nuts and seeds in particular, like almonds, walnuts, coconuts (a seed), and possibly some more berries/cooked green vegetables.
hope this helped, let me know if there is more you’d like me to clear up, thanks for commenting
-Anthony
Dream,
I think a great post could be one that goes over what you tend to eat, where you get it from and, perhaps most importantly, how you eat socially.
It has become clear to me that losing the social component of food is a huge fear many have of messing with their diet. And, to be honest, it is something I miss since diverging from eating the way most do. I’ve got my own ways of coping, but I’d be interested to hear how you deal with it.
Thanks!
Nicky
Dang, that was hella good.
Alright, I’m convinced.
Now its time for some paleo recipes.
Any good sources?
Also, I have noticed the difference from being hungry and being thirsty. Now that I drink a gallon+ water a day, I feel like I am processing food more efficiently — its easy to drink a gallon if you by a gallon and keep it next to you.
Also, I am experimenting with the uberman sleep schedule — 15 mins every 4 hours (inspired by Steve Pavlina). I notice that when I oversleep its for only 3 hours. Any thoughts?
Keep up the quality posts
Solid, I started a community for polyphasic sleepers @ forums.trypolyphasic.com. The rest of the site is on the way.
As for your question, the most likely reason is because the standard sleep cycle lasts about 90 minutes, ending with a phase of REM sleep. After your second phase of REM you probably come to for a minute, feeling pretty refreshed and then notice the time (and then of course feel shitty for oversleeping).
-Nicky
@Nicky
Was planning on a post similar to what you suggest, except now I have some additional ideas to throw into the mix =). It will be up post after next.
In the mean time, I’m still having my daily Dream Shake in the morning =)
I will also address social issues in eating at some point. Perhaps in the what I eat post, but if it doesn’t fit I will give it it’s own post.
@Solid
Like I told Nicky, post after next will be about my other daily meal. In the mean time check out
http://www.thedreamlounge.net/2009/09/24/i-hope-they-serve-beer-in-hell-pint-glasses-good-for-more-than-just-beer/
and
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/carne-asada/
Marks daily apple is chock full of recipes that are usually pretty good- although, I eat less carbohydrate, and my meals are far simpler.
thanks for commenting (check Nicky’s response for the sleep question)
-Anthony
Would you use a sunbed for vitamin D?
I live in a country where you can only tan outside on the summer. And I dont know if I should take supplements(which i dont really like taking) or if I should use a sunbed. What do you think?
I would take Vitamin D supplements long before using a tanning bed.
Right on bro, I am totally against taking pills, drugs, and medicine when I get sick – EVER! People don’t have a clue how pharmaceutical companies are after us–its all about making money for them! The natural human body has great regulative systems in place, often times water is the best medicine. Trust.
Oh and one more thing… You are a badass because everytime I read one of your nutrition/body/health type articles I somehow feel stronger in my conviction to eat healthy or evict my inner sweet-tooth. Haha. I love sugar and was craving a Wendy’s M&M frosty at the beginning of this post… not so much now.
-Dilan