I will be continuing the conversation I began with my last post by first setting the stage for the conversation.
My over arching goal, is to bring health, wellness, mobility, strength and longevity to any that have contact with me. Be that in the real or virtual world.
A little history for those that do not know me or are new to my blog
I am a 20+ year martial artist, and physical culture proponent, student, and instructor
I teach the Hardstyle method of Kettlebell lifting (RKC) the Thomas method of Indian Club Swinging, and Jeet Kune Do concepts and Filipino Martial arts as passed on to me by my instructor Sifu Michael O'Melia through his Instructor Guru Dan Inosanto with a direct and unbroken line to Sigung Bruce Lee. As a physical culture, and martial art/sport/science instructor I have a very pragmatic and sometimes jaded view of function and utility.
I am not, a doctor
nutritionist
chemist
psychologist
or anything else that I have not stated that I am
Take my wee little column for what it is, my opinions and observations based on my experience
Filter what I present through your own experience, and come to your own conclusions
Test the veracity of any claims I make and if you feel like correcting me, there is a form to make comments, please use it
Lets talk first about Diet
currently, it seems there is a new version of variable fasting and modified Atkins/Ornish diet, gluten free, casein free, nothing that casts a shadow diet every 15 minutes
if they have bought you success, groovy
I will state however that my understanding of pain is this-pain is any thing that produces a noxious response in the body
since we as humans are evolutionarily wired for survival and not for performance, anything that registers as pain with the cns (central nervous system, the governing body, nothing happens without it)
that stimulus will be remembered very clearly and concisely, we may adapt to the stimulus over time, but it will always be a pain signal, we will in fact be adapting to pain
jumbled?
ever talk to someone that comes off the Atkins diet, the person who lost a buttload (literally in some cases) of weight, and when they went back to eating like a normal person they packed the weight back on in short order
their body thought they were starving, it went into a state of ketosis, consuming its own tissues to feed the daily caloric needs for survival, and when eating pattern was returned to normal, the cns told the body to pack on the pounds,
because another famine could be just around the corner and if we survived last time with what we had around our hips thighs and butt, we need more of that
survival
not performance
how bout vegans?
not enough protein, too much fat, bad skin and poor digestion, uptake of nutrients is deficient
they look like death warmed over with acne
great....
not the diet, its them, and their lack of understanding in how to get the nutrition they need to survive from the diet they have chosen....
do you have a thyroid problem is that why you are fat?
are you sure
have you had that confirmed by a doctor?
or do you really have a fork control problem?
some would make the case that what we put in is not as important as how our body uses it
ok
eat dirt, it has calories, how long will you last?
live on ramen and pop tarts (college right?)
think your liver will love you for long?
can you in fact survive on mc food and live long and hale?
dunno, I posit that you will live better if you avoid mc anything and stick with food, not mc food
there is a clip on youtube of a 4 year old cheeseburger, is that right?
with obesity, diabetes, cancer of all types, and a host of other horrific stuff going on in our population, I have to wonder
is it us, or is it the crap that we get sold as being food?
can you honestly tell me you get 8 servings of fruits and vegetables every day?
take my challenge,
go to your cupboards or fridge, pull anything that has
high fructose corn syrup, or more than 5 ingredients and set it on one side,
then
gather all the other things in your cupboards and fridge that are considered food on the other side of your kitchen
how big are the stacks?
which one is bigger?
are you eating food or a chemical slurry that allows a hamburger to last 4 years without being eaten by pests or decomposing?
here are my dietary guidelines, the ones I follow
eat as close to the ground as possible
eat as fresh as possible
eat food that is cooked as little as possible
eat as close to home as possible (food form local farms etc)
try not to eat anything that came from a box or was wrapped in plastic
eat more vegetables and fruit than meat
drink more water than any other beverage, coffee, tea and alcohol in moderation
eat when I am hungry, stop eating when I am thirsty
leave the beverages for at least an hour after I have eaten to let my stomach do its thing, but if I need a swig of liquid to get my food down, groovy
if it comes from a package, keep the ingredients list to under 5 ingredients, less if possible
if it has a label, be wary
give this a shot for 30 days, let me know what you think
we are just talking diet so far,not exercise, sport, athletics, martial topics, or self defense
health is the best self defense
next up
breathing
