Food Log - "It tastes like the face of God."

2/24 - coffee, milk, water, Alpha Brain, Animal Rage, Cannibal Swole, peanut butter, Monster Milk/Mass, eggs, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, steak, avocado, tomato

2/25 - coffee, milk, water, Alpha Brain, Animal Rage, Cannibal Swole, peanut butter, Monster Milk/Mass, eggs, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, bacon, salsa, potatoes

2/26 - coffee, milk, water, Alpha Brain, Animal Rage, peanut butter, Monster Milk/Mass, eggs, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, bacon, eggs, salsa, shredded mozzarella, pork chop, chicken & potato panang curry

2/27 - coffee, milk, water, Alpha Brain, Animal Rage, peanut butter, Monster Milk/Mass, eggs, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, chicken, salsa + guacamole

2/28 - coffee, milk, water, Alpha Brain, Animal Rage, peanut butter, Monster Milk/Mass, eggs, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, beer, thai food dinner/family style, Bailey's coffee, white russians

3/1 - coffee, water, milk, Alpha Brain, bacon cheeseburger, fries, onion rings, chocolate milk, cookies, coconut chips

3/2 - coffee, water, milk, Alpha Brain, eggs, bacon, mozzarella, cucumber, guac [avocado, tomatoes, garlic, onions], Coke Zero

No Food Log last week, as I had visitors from Japan, resulting in enjoyable, if regrettable, nutritional choices.  Back on track this week.  Onwards.

 
 
 

Priorities.

"It tastes like the face of God."

Timeline Photos - Testosterone Nation: 

"What story is your diet telling you? And what's the best way to hear it? The foods you put into your body tell you a story. The wrong foods tell you the story of excess body fat, discomfort, mental anguish, and ultimately, disease. Put the right foods into your body and you'll soon be told a better story. If you don't like the current story, then something is wrong with your diet. Training can certainly make your story better, but make no mistake: whether your "book" has a happy ending or a sad ending is determined by your diet. And YOU determine your diet. Remember, to drop body fat, you first have to say and believe these words: "I caused this, no one else, and only I can and fix it." No blame, no excuses."

It's not a paradox or an outlier.  Fat is good for you.  What skim and lowfat do is remove the naturally occurring fats and up the level of sugars.  Which is terrible for you.  Not to mention the fact that most of the vitamins in dairy are fat soluble.  You *need* the fat in order to make use of them.  The Full-Fat Paradox: Whole Milk May Keep Us Lean : The Salt : NPR: 

"In one paper, published by Swedish researchers in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, middle-aged men who consumed high-fat milk, butter and cream were significantly less likely to become obese over a period of 12 years compared with men who never or rarely ate high-fat dairy. Yep, that's right. The butter and whole-milk eaters did better at keeping the pounds off. "I would say it's counterintuitive," says Greg Miller, executive vice president of the National Dairy Council. The second study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition, is a meta-analysis of 16 observational studies. There has been a hypothesis that high-fat dairy foods contribute to obesity and heart disease risk, but the reviewers concluded that the evidence does not support this hypothesis. In fact, the reviewers found that in most of the studies, high-fat dairy was associated with a lower risk of obesity. "We continue to see more and more data coming out [finding that] consumption of whole-milk dairy products is associated with reduced body fat," Miller says."

We Don’t Know What Constitutes a True Paleo Diet | Mark's Daily Apple: 

"It may surprise you to know that I think the first assertion is absolutely right. We don’t know exactly what our ancestors were eating. There are no pleistocene food journal entries scrawled on a cave wall someplace, and many of the primary sources we can access – phytoliths (which indicate the presence of vegetal material) and stable carbon/nitrogen isotopes (which indicate the source of dietary protein) – require analysis and interpretation, thus becoming secondary sources. 

However, we absolutely do know what early humans did not eat: Industrial seed oils high enough in linoleic acid to crowd omega-3 out of their tissues. A diet where refined sugar made up either 17% or 15% of the total caloric intake. We know these things because these foods either didn’t exist until the late 1880s (seed oils like corn) or only graduated from expensive luxury item to widely-used staple food in the 1700s (white sugar)."