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Time to Abolish the CDC?

by on 22. Jan, 2012 in Independent Thinking, Nutrition

I’ve never taken the time to consider whether or not the CDC is constitutional [EDIT: I checked, it's not]. Which is a polite way of saying “legal”. Regardless of whether or not it is, stuff like this makes a strong case for abolishing it entirely, or dramatically reducing it’s scope, specifically removing it from the realm of nutrition forever.

CDC researchers say mothers should stop breastfeeding to boost ‘efficacy’ of vaccines

On a creepiness scale of 1 to 10, this is a 15. 

The CDC is funded by violence. It’s a federal agency that is paid for largely by your income tax, which you pay, or go to jail for not paying. If you refuse to go to jail, you will be shot by armed IRS agents. If you think I’m joking trying making $100,000 fiat dollars and ignoring the IRS for the next 2 years.

You’ll be murdered. A federal judge agrees.

And this is the shit your income tax goes to pay? An…

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Mark Sisson and Doug McGuff MD Interviewed by Dr. Mercola

by on 16. Dec, 2011 in Exercise, Interviews, Nutrition

 

 
As you might guess, both are great. I’ve since invited Dr. Mercola to The 21 Convention. While I was not able to get in touch with him directly, I did get in contact with his press agent. Highly interested at first due to both Mark and Doug being alumni speakers, but lost interest when he found out there was not going to be ~500 people at the event. This is highly irrelevant long term due to the high quality video production + online video distribution, but this is almost impossible to explain to people not intimately familiar with web video.

It’s tantamount to explaining how detrimental minimum wage laws are to the poor, or explaining why corporate tax is an illusion to an OWS protester. I may or may not try to get in contact with Dr. Mercola directly, who I think would be a great speaker. I especially like how much he hates — and rightfully so — the FDA.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

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Reductionist Errors in Nutrition, Psychology, and Exercise

Reductionist Errors in Nutrition, Psychology, and Exercise

by on 01. Dec, 2011 in Exercise, Independent Thinking, Nutrition

It occurred to me last night that major errors in conventional (as well as some unconventional camps) of important subjects, consist of errors of the same caliber, and are produced by the same fault in thinking.

Reductionism.

For the purposes of this post, reductionism shall be defined as a mode of thinking that reduces complex concepts and practices, spanning multiple sciences, down to a lesser number of sciences, not for any reason other than such person or group believes that eliminated sciences do not apply to Y topic, concept, or practice — when they in fact do.

The resulting conclusions being at best wrong, and at worst, dangerous.

Nutrition

The first science we will explore is nutrition. Human nutrition specifically. And more specifically, the broad criticism of any diet or individual who states that fat loss is primarily a hormonal and biological event, secondarily a matter of calorie intake reduction (by any number of means), and thirdly, if even considered relevant, calorie expenditure.

The criticism being that this hierarchy violates…

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A Primal Thanksgiving Dinner

A Primal Thanksgiving Dinner

by on 25. Nov, 2011 in Nutrition

The dinner consisted of,

  • roast duck
  • roast turkey
  • pumpkin cheesecake (extra thick crust)
  • pumpkin pie
  • stuffing /w bacon + sausage
  • green bean casserole
  • small dish of cranberry/blueberry sauce
  •  large bowl of cranberry/apple sauce
  • sweet potato slices
  • mashed potatoes /w cheese
  • turkey gravy
  • duck gravy

But wait, is it primal? In a large sense, yes, because all of the food was gluten free, and all of the fat used was animal based, including the crusts for the pies, which were made with 100% grass fed KerryGold butter. The cheese was unfortunately not grass fed, but could have been without much extra trouble.

In addition, not only was the food absent of gluten and gluten grains, but was also absent all the other nasty shit you find in most foods today — home made or store bought. Pumpkin pie and cheesecake bought at stores today for example typically come with loads of hydrogenated oil, high fructose corn syrup, and generally speaking, mild poisons that in a long enough time span, lead to a slow and painful death.

Sounds far fetched for that yummy, warm pumpkin pie — but yeah, it’s killer in…

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Paleo Sweet Fries

Paleo Sweet Fries

by on 22. Oct, 2011 in Nutrition

Blasphemy you scream!

No, not so.

I made these last night with my girlfriend. The sweet potatoes were home grown, fresh out of the backyard. Coated in rice flour and a bit of diet sprite. Deep fried in coconut oil for ~8 minutes. Subsequently sprinkled with cinnamon, clove, sugar, and pink sea salt — then dipped in melted butter (typically grass fed but did not have any on hand).

Ideally, I think, grass fed beef tallow would be used to deep fry, the cinnamon would be saigon, and club soda or carbonated water would be used instead of Sprite.

All in all though, probably the best fries I’ve ever had in my life.

Eat my shorts peanut/corn/soybean/canola oil status quo mother fuckers.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

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T21C Fan Drops 31 Lbs, Improves Health, Changes Life

T21C Fan Drops 31 Lbs, Improves Health, Changes Life

by on 16. Oct, 2011 in Nutrition, Reviews, The 21 Convention

24 years.

That’s how long it took me to get my shit together, health-wise. I’m still working on the other parts of my life but I feel like I’ve finally got my health under control.

I’ve always been a chubby kid, even in high school when I was a star lacrosse player, I was never really a great athlete. But I was active enough that I could get by with eating complete garbage every day.

I look at my photos from my junior and senior year in high school and you can tell I gained about 10-15lbs. Once I hit college and stopped playing sports I really took off. I went from being 5’8″ and 190lbs, steadily climbing until I just recently hit my highest weight ever of 270.

As with most gradual changes, I never really noticed it. I knew I was getting bigger and buying bigger clothes, but hell, there was nothing I could do.

I got serious about my health two years ago and started…

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The Dream Shake 2011

by on 08. Oct, 2011 in Nutrition

 
No, not a new video, sorry to get your hopes up. Just a 2 year old video of me making “The Dream Shake”.

However, I will share the new Dream Shake of 2011 today, which as you might have guessed, is insanely awesome and far improved.

TDS 2011 typically consists of,

  • Raw grass fed whole milk
or
  • Raw grass fed half and half
or
  • Coconut milk
and
  • Virgin coconut oil
  • Almond butter
  • Saigon cinnamon (delicious!)
  • 1 raw egg yolk
  • 1-2 scoops of grass fed whey protein
  • 1 banana
  • frozen berries (blue, straw, ras)
  • full fat yogurt
  • various rock and sea salts
  • raw unfiltered honey

They whey flavor varies from vanilla to strawberry to chocolate. I find vanilla easiest to mess around with where as strawberry and chocolate are more intense. I typically do not add more than 1 type of fruit to the mix. The rest of the ingredients are pretty standard for my shakes however and are always included (unless I forget or run out).

For clarification purposes, yes, when I say half and half as an ingredient, I mean making the entire shake with half and half as a…

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How many bullets have you dodged eating and living properly?

How many bullets have you dodged eating and living properly?

by on 29. Sep, 2011 in Nutrition

A close friend recently went under the knife. To what? To have their gallbladder removed. My non-medical recommendation of course was to avoid surgery for at least a month while eating nothing but real, awesome food.

Her trainer, none other than the legendary Drew Baye, was of the same/similar opinion (from my understanding, have not spoken to Drew about it).

Her doctor of course said he, and “everyone else”, “had no idea” what caused her gallbladder to completely cease functioning.

Which is naturally, complete bull shit.

I’m a 23 year old college drop out that failed biology as a freshman and I know exactly what caused her gallbladder to “break” – eating a shit load of wheat, corn, soybean, and rapeseed oil her entire life.

Among other strange substances posing as food for the bulk of her diet.

25+ years of this and it’s a wonder her gallbladder lasted as long as it did. It also leaves one to wonder what future ailments await my friend. Most likely,…

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Eating Triple the RDA of Cholesterol for Years on End: Total Cholesterol Measures 202

Eating Triple the RDA of Cholesterol for Years on End: Total Cholesterol Measures 202

by on 06. Sep, 2011 in Nutrition

I find this pretty amusing. In fact I find this hysterical. I eat, and have eaten for multiple years now, in the realm of TRIPLE the RDA on a weekly basis of dietary cholesterol (and probably quadruple the amount of saturated fat). This comes from a few dozen eggs per week, fatty meat, and copious amounts of milk fat from sour cream, butter, heavy cream, half/half, whole milk, full fat yogurt and cheese, etc.

And by copious, I mean I am the guy who went to Whole Foods for 2 weeks straight in  Los Angeles, and every single morning got the same thing: a pound of bacon and a pint of half and half. (Yes, I drink half and half straight if its high quality, largely thanks to T21C photographer Jolly).

Yet, according to a recent blood test, my total fasted cholesterol level is a whopping 202 — basically fine by conventional standards. And this is discounting whatever the specific levels are, which I…

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Is the General Population Really that Weak? … Yikes

Is the General Population Really that Weak? … Yikes

by on 02. Sep, 2011 in Nutrition

Picture of me eating loads of fat.

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Today’s post is just a quick story. I “donated” blood for the first time in my life today. I tried to yesterday, but I wasn’t permitted to because, to the horror of the nurse staff, I had “skipped” breakfast and lunch, not to mention, had an early dinner the night before (and I was naive enough to tell the truth about my last meal time).

Of course, I did no such thing. I haven’t thought of my meals as “breakfast” “lunch” and “dinner” in many months, if not over a year now. I eat once per day usually, with occasional snacks some days of the week. It is entirely normal for me to go 15+ hours eating very little, if anything at all.

I even went 36 hours in 2010 on 300 calories worth of home made pemmican. I experienced zero ill side effects — meanwhile, my two friends were constantly hungry,  and borderline ravenous when we finally stopped to camp for the evening…

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