tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post116988630389346707..comments2024-02-14T23:28:11.026-08:00Comments on FORGOTTEN PROPHETS: Why You Should Be More Like MeJack Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1170147010951238742007-01-30T00:50:00.000-08:002007-01-30T00:50:00.000-08:00"...didn't even mean to do that." Ha! There are ..."...didn't even mean to do that." Ha! There are no accidents, dude. <BR/><BR/>I was talking to someone tonight, who was concerned about his mother's weight problem. "What should I do?" I, wise as I am beyond my years, have come to understand that preaching just makes people defensive. Silent example. Let them come to you. That was my style as a father. I think it was a good one. I taught in a prison, once upon a time, and there is no one who has the patter down better, than a dry methamphetamine addict. But words without music ain't a song. My point is, be patient with yourself. Everyone in the world has said at one time or another, "I'm gonna git in shape!!!" Hardly anyone is in shape. It's not about inspiration, it's about motivation. Sticking with it. <BR/><BR/>I trust my meaning shines through these many words.<BR/><BR/>JJack Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1170125856703122122007-01-29T18:57:00.000-08:002007-01-29T18:57:00.000-08:00Thanks for responding Jack. Between your comment ...Thanks for responding Jack. Between your comment and your recipes entry, you've given me pleny of food for thought (wow, I didn't even mean do do that!). Lots for me to start researching. <BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your writing. <BR/><BR/>SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1170040767727406882007-01-28T19:19:00.000-08:002007-01-28T19:19:00.000-08:00Greetings, A. Good, aren't I. (Isn't it an obnoxio...Greetings, A. Good, aren't I. (Isn't it an obnoxious anomaly of idiomatic English, that "aren't I"? "Amn't" just don't cut it though, and "Am I not" lacks flow.)<BR/><BR/>I'll be posting something on that very subject Mon or Tues -- just trying to write less, here.<BR/><BR/>One of the freaky things about myself that I don't really talk about is the fact that I am not an Evolutionist. Just not my religion. I won't go into the details, but if we ignore the Evolutionary presumptions, and view the so-called Paleolithic diet as interchangeable with an "Edenic" diet -- or more aptly, a "Noahic" diet, we get some insights.<BR/><BR/>The "Protein Power" folks just love protein. Indeed, we learn our lessons where we find them, and if we can see beyond the prejudices, we find some good info. But there is not a whole lot wrong with grains. They just shouldn't be the greatest part of your diet. We need calories, and grains are a reasonable source. Far, far better than animal protein and fat. Most people act as if there were only three nutrients -- if they think about it at all. Carbs, protein and fats. These are the three macro nutrients. There are many thousands of nutrients -- micro nutrients. As I may have said, there are over 4000 identified phytochemicals, plant nutrients that have powerful anti-oxidant or reparative powers. Meat, on the other hand, has three or four nutrients: protein, iron, um, B12 -- uh, and some others.<BR/><BR/>Game meat, as I observe here, has Omega 3s -- hence its healthful aspects. We do not eat game meat, though. We eat factory meat, corn fed and pretty poisonous. The Paleolithic folks point this out, and recommend you buy free range meat. If you eat meat, do. But understand that you're only eating it for the Omega 3, which your own body makes from alpha-linolenic acid, if you give it a chance. Everything else about meat is downside.<BR/><BR/>Diabetes is all about insulin. Hardly anyone doesn't make enough. The problem is that cells become resistant to it, so the pancreas makes more and more and more, in a vicious cycle, and then it gives out. You can reset the whole system by fasting. Point is, big carb meals turn into big rushes of glucose into the blood -- causing a big insulin surge which takes out too much bloodsugar, which makes you hungry so you eat more big carb meals.<BR/><BR/>As for arthritis and all that, there is powerful evidence that the auto-immune diseases are highly correlated with leaky gut, where undigested particles seep into the bloodstream. Big deal? Well, they are antigens, which your body attacks with antibodies. If these antigens are like your own molecules, the immune system can get, as it were, confused. Obviously, animal proteins will be most like your own proteins, and plant proteins will be less similar -- upshot being that your body can learn to attack itself more often from animal peptides than from those of plants. Grains become a problem when there are just too much of them -- the chances of their undigested proteins leaking into the blood are far greater, when that's just about all you eat. Get it? Simple. In themselves, grains are fine. Too much, though, is too much. Meat, on the other hand, almost starts at too much. Go onto Amazon dot com and look up "The China Study" -- well written and flawless in its research.<BR/><BR/>And so on.<BR/><BR/>I'll be posting at least two more pieces on related subjects. I don't want to write, here, on technical subjects, because I feel like I have to use citations, and that's just a hassle. This is what I do when I want to be lazy.<BR/><BR/>Feel free...<BR/><BR/><BR/>JJack Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-1170036816864130112007-01-28T18:13:00.000-08:002007-01-28T18:13:00.000-08:00Jack,I've never been a strict vegetarian, but I ha...Jack,<BR/><BR/>I've never been a strict vegetarian, but I have always been at least vegecentric. <BR/><BR/>Recently, I have run across a lot of information about paleolithic diets, and evolutionary fitness. The advocates of these diets assert that man evolved on a diet of meat, fish, and vegetables. They point to the changeover to a grain-based diet as the cause of many of our chronic diseases, most notably diabetes. The grains themselves are claimed to be unhealthy, containing many "anti-nutirents" that promote everything from inflamation, arthitic, and obviously celiac disease.<BR/><BR/>With that said, I've been reading you for a few months now, and am aware that you exercise and are fit. And you are a vegetarian. Do you have any resources that you might point to that would provide a would be vegetarian an alternative argument to the paleolithic diet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com