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David Linthorne's avatar

Even more so....if possible....eat in season.

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Sheldon H.'s avatar

“western habitual diet” new to me. More encompassing I suppose.

Here in the US, we can just call it “SAD” (Standard American Diet). It truly is sad.

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David Linthorne's avatar

Shared this before but it's fitting and too funny not to.

https://youtu.be/fIGXkh6S8Zw

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Obedient Subject's avatar

"If not for social media and citizen journalism, the CDC would not have released this information to the public."

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This MUST stop! No more secrets.

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Richard's avatar

Yes, for the perceptive amongst us, the veil has fallen regarding the mendacity of the federal government. Pretty much all western governments. Beyond mendacity to pathological lying.

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Sybil's avatar

I am a woman from an era long ago when swearing was left to unrefined company; however, two words are searing my brain - rat bastards! That seems appropriate, don’t you think? 🥹

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

Lucky for me...all this nutrition fits so evenly on a large thin crust pizza

More portabella as I'm a Shroom kinda Guy.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

As much as I love pizza, I must denounce a few features. First, that crust. Unless it was made from cauliflower (honerable mention for effort, but not close to the real thing), it was made from white flour, which is squarely in the "bad carb" camp. Nearly anything else that normally goes on a pizza is quite healthy (unless you buy into the saturated fat belief system -- I don't). Exception for additive, especially for the processed meats. I love pepperoni, bacon, sausage, etc. but the nitrates and other chemicals are of dubious health impact. Also, I'm not factoring in the antibiotics, insecticide resideue etc. since those are problems in nearly all commercial foods.

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

When it comes to pizza....I accept their are some ingredient unknows for max nutrients.

If this was my Daily Bread, I'd have some extra pounds in all the wrong places too. Hahaha

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

What these "diets" never seem to take into account is cost. Example being essential amino acids. Legumes a good and inexpensive source. I imagine fresh fish are too but...have you priced fish lately? All those diets plugging fish do not tell you how folks living on social security can buy fish costing $39/ lb for routine eating. Again, bulk is obtained from legumes and grain, particularly oat meal. I suspect constipation a really big problem looking at the sales of laxatives and inadequate voiding of the bowel may be one cause of g.i. cancer. Another topic glossed over in these diets. There are others.

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LDT's avatar

Bingo, quality food is expensive… I buy eggs for $4 a dozen from a woman I know whose hens are happily eating bugs, seeds and ‘clean’ non-gmo supplemental feed on her land. The yokes are marigold color. My spouse and I consume about 3 dozen a week. We add a little bit of wild caught, smoked salmon along side our eggs everyday. (Butcher supplies most of our other meats.)

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Shelley's avatar

Living the life, you two are!

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LDT's avatar

We both have autoimmune issues, so we are pretty careful about what we put into our bodies now.

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Shelley's avatar

Those issues seem mostly a result of the wonderful American food pyramid and the grocery shelves filled with pretend eatables infused with select vitamins barely digestible by the body. Even fruits and veggies are tainted with toxic sprays.

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LDT's avatar

Not my situation… medical community doesn’t understand my spouse’s…no cure.

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Rick Larson's avatar

With the nutrition in egg yolks one egg is worth 10x or something more than a large bag of chips. How much do large bags of chips cost now? When a person is on the edge like you type below, it doesn't take much bad food to make one quickly sick. Diagnoses is easy.

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LDT's avatar

Eggs are a wonderful source of protein. Chips are never good for you.

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Rick Larson's avatar

Proteins indeed, and much more.

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Rick Larson's avatar

No. I don't have any health problems anymore. Absolutely no constipation problems.

Tins of little fishes are still cheap for the city people.

I also grow enough food from gardens without commercial aids and hunt & fish.

Although I will give you a point on the legumes and some grain as long as it is fermented for three days to lesson the lectins.

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Shelley's avatar

I purchase 5-6 tins of sardines in mustard sauce when I grocery shop once every 3 to 4 weeks. I eat them on crackers made from almonds or rice. Do black-eyed peas bought in a can need to be fermented? And if so, how is that done? According to this site it is a great food. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/black-eyed-peas-nutrition Do rice and oats need to be fermented? I only have a hobby garden; tomatoes, bell peppers, spinach, curly kale, string beans and zucchini – no can live on that…I can catch a small mouth bass or perch in my pond but I don’t clean fish. I guess I can check out your Newsletter for hints. I don't hunt but do shoot possums that won't go in my traps because their dung is debilitating if ingested by horse. Sometime I have to relocate racoon cubs though.

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Rick Larson's avatar

You don't need to ferment anything, its about what you want, or rather, what the bacteria and other critters in your body has habituated to.. Look up what lectins are and what they do to the digestive system, quite the opposite of what the phd thinks.

I've been working with nature here, its a hoot. Type in these keywords into YouTube "rick larson cleaning fish".

My Dad grew up with large horses, his Dad used them to plow the field. They lived with out modern conveniences selling produce in summer and logging in the winter. The fumy thing is he doesn't remember many bad times. I should ask him about opossums & raccoons with the horses in mind. They probably shot and ate them all. Ha!

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Shelley's avatar

I know about lectins from reading Eat Right 4 Your Type a couple of decades ago. I try to follow its food plan for type O. My ex's grandfather and uncle raised coon hounds back in the day. And he would hunt with them. They went out at dusk. I don't think they ever ate the meat, just wanted the pelt. What for I don't know.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

I like sardines. However they are off the menu for folks taking 200 mg allopurinol/day

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SR Miller's avatar

300mg allopurinol taker here - been doing so for nigh on 30 years, maybe longer, lost track. Yeah, the big toe plague sux; but I also eat sardines as often as I can remember to do so - with no ill effects that I know of. What did cause a problem was my love affair with dark beer, the darker the better. Some number of years ago I was having issues in large joints, particularly my bad (bad enough to need replacement) knees. Never knew gout could afflict other joints and it doesn’t have to be debilitating. Thank you Dr Google. Anyway, deep dive into gout, the foods, what to do, and I’m left with a beer cellar still full of that chocolate colored elixir. On the bright side, it was amazing how quick the discomfort went away.

As for the foods, one thing I came across is that not everyone seems to respond to the same foods AND that veggies high in purines seem to not be the same issue as purines in meats - fer instance, asparagus is condemned because of its purine content but it can be consumed. Here’s an interesting articl about foods and gout from NIH (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722549/)

As for the sardines, it’s possible my high consumption of gout protective foods provides me with some leeway to consume sardines w/o consequence.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

I had to back off of my fav beer because its alcohol too hi and also unfiltered (and unpasteurized) due to kidney stones. Really loved that beer but Shiner Bock going down pretty well now

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Rick Larson's avatar

What the hell they taking that for?

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Gout--sardines and anchovies loaded with purines. Not so good for gout. Sore big toe bad, kidney stones not so hot either

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Rick Larson's avatar

Too much oxalates according to my YouTube doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9llWp0ixs

I don't know much about the details, and I normally don't care much to learn, what I do know is I feel better now than I ever did all my life just by changing my habits of eating and working.

I theorize the reason people seek pills and injections, concoctions as I've termed them, is they do not live a healthy lifestyle.

Since I have no letters behind my name nor am seeking to profit, I am free to speculate.

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Shelley's avatar

Maybe it's expected that retired people have their home and car paid off. That way SS can cover food, electric, water, garbage, gasoline, PP Tax, phone, internet, cable, clothing, pet food, home maintenance, car insurance, new tires, health insurance, dental costs, eye care........no need for a vacation because retirement is perpetual vacation. Fixed income during rampant and prolonged inflation - !

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Exactly. Was bad enough before the china flu nonsense but prices have gone sky high and shelves in stores not nearly returned to normal. As one pundit wrote, not too hard to disrupt a global economy but all together another matter to fix it

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Michael Williams's avatar

When I stopped eating until full, I started losing weight 🤷‍♂️

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

Paleo is bs. Turns out evolutionary dieticians found out current Stone Age tribes eat a lot of honey and roots. That as far as I know isn’t in paleo. Eat like great grandma would cook.

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

it's just a name and a metaphor, people don't literally think that they're eating paleo -- this is called a red herring argument. yeah some people marketing paleo want to hype it up, but serious people doing actual paleo to control inflammation don't think of it that way and never have. they just do it because it works pretty well if you have a tendency toward high inflammation.

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Joshua Marshall's avatar

Ive been interested in physical health and fitness for a while now and while there are a ton of fad diets out there, they all seem to have a few things in common. Like you said, avoid the highly processed garbage and the added sugar and you'll be fine. I plan on writing more about these sort of things in the future if anyone is interested. Great post and have a good weekend!

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Paula Pierce's avatar

I have followed what you may consider a PALEO based program by Dr Terry Wahls since 2012 to help treat MS. The book is Wahls Protocol and eating real food as my medication is the best for me compared to DMD’s. Love your Substacks.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Interesting. In a similar vein, the keto diet was originally promoted a century ago as an apparently helpful treatment against epilepsy, of all things. Some health authors say that diet alone may have a bigger influence on health than most medical interventions. The more I learn, the more I tend to believe that.

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Ned B.'s avatar

"Have a great Saturday night folks - we are off to have dinner with friends."

Will your friends regard this article when making their dinner choices?

;-)

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Robert W Malone MD, MS's avatar

Yep! I will brag here. We are going to Tad and Kelly Coffin's farm. Kelly grows most of their food, keep lots of poultry, and she has honey bees. She is a great cook and an ex-navy pilot.

Well - Tad Coffin - he is on right the side of liberty in this fight and - I am going to brag on one of my best friends ... he is also a double gold Olympic medalist in the 1976 Montreal games.

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D D's avatar

So there, damn it! Like you say, most people don't have a clue who you really are!

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Laura's avatar

Years ago I did 3 day eventing and was a huge fan of Tad Coffin. I'm glad he is still doing well because I haven't followed eventing for years.

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Sybil's avatar

What a life! Bless you guys every which way to Sunday!

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Rick Larson's avatar

I just posted a video of my dinner!

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RobRog's avatar

Vegetable Oils (corn, soybean, canola, sunflower etc), which are in almost every packaged food, have been found to be one of the most harmful foods, and can have damaging effects on your DNA.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Some oils are much worse than others. Despite being heavily reduced, a certain amount of trans fats are still allowed (USA.) Those are ALWAYS bad and to be avoided. Anything deep fried should be viewed with suspicion. If vegetable oil was used, there's a good chance of trans fats, oxidized (burnt) fats, and other nasties. At least according to one faction, in that case the old way (lard or tallow) was healthier. On the other hand, if you cooked an item yourself in olive oil or perhaps even better, sesame or walnut, you are probably doing no harm (except to your wallet!) As with nearly everything, excess is often the issue and oil (fat) is no exception.

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LDT's avatar

I think we have to learn what works best for our own bodies. I would be miserable as a vegetarian. We eat a diet of high quality animal protein and animal fat, very low sugar or grain…we also include some dark leafy greens, beets, cabbage, a few nuts and some berries in season in our diet. Frankly, I feel awful if I eat processed foods at all now. Getting rid of the sugars and carbs (breads, potatoes, rice) cured my body inflammation, but it returns if eat any. We stay clear of seed oils, dressings, etc. The one thing I do NOT want to get rid of is my daily, quality black tea ritual.

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

So you mean no more 36 oz cowboy cuts? I don't think I'll read this any more.

Danny Huckabee

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Richard's avatar

So sad about the people poisoned in East Palestine. So much of what man does on this planet is harmful and poison.

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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere's avatar

Another way of assessing our diet is with an honest look into a mirror. Full body. Naked. We literally are what we eat. Where else would our bodies come from?

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LDT's avatar

Naked? No thanks, at my age, that is too depressing… gravity is real.

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Shelley's avatar

You must have better eyesight then me. I take my glasses off I can barely see anything!

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

If you are gazing at something while unclothed, regardless of the acuity of your eyesight, you are barely seeing something, in a manner of speaking [grin].

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Shelley's avatar

Well, I'd better start eating more but now it's more of what? No rice or cream of rice, no oatmeal or Cheerios, no black eyed peas, no chips. Foods by blood type: beneficial, neutral and avoid - that diet is at my core, but I still eat kettle-cooked chips and have one Dr Pepper a day.

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Jack Bergeron's avatar

It wasn’t that long ago when there was no refrigeration for the long term storage or transportation of food. Fresh vegetables and fresh fruit were strictly seasonal items. Food preservation with salt and pickling was common. Meat was smoked and salted for Grains were one of the few food items that could be relatively stored and utilized. Small family farms with a diversity of animals and organic fertilization of the soil was common place. Going further back in time wars were fought over the sources of salt.

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