Get out into the mountains this fall! This photo is of the S. Fork of Salmon River, about 12 miles north of Warm Lake.
Don’t forget about the special class at 7p.m. next Monday from Jenn’s Primal Health. The class will focus on how to make new habits stick: Read about it and sign up here. Cost: $10
Looks like what we do with the rower is catching on. I am toying with the idea of offering some class times that heavily emphasize the rower as a conditioning tool:
Here’s a good article unpacking the reasons why avoiding red meat is not advised.
Main points:
1) Evidence linking red meat eating and poor health is weak, conflicted, and/or non-existent.
2) Meat is the most nutrient dense thing you can eat.
3) Avoiding meat sets humans up for a variety of nutritional deficiencies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2019.1657063?
You will hear me harp on magnesium, vitamin D and zinc as being three things you should supplement with. We just don’t get enough from foods we eat and in the case of vitamin D, we just don’t live in a part of the world where we get enough sunlight. A good way to get these is by supplementing with 5-10,000iu of vitamin D3 per day, and then taking a product called “ZMA” which has zinc and magnesium. https://www.ergo-log.com/magnesium-rich-diet-reduces-mortality-risk.html
Strength training improves mood. I’ve found this to be the case even more when it involves movements that use your whole body through a full range-of-motion. One of the guidelines I use when programming at IKSC is that the movements we use for training should use everything from your fingertips to toes, while incorporating the breath and always leading with the eyes. https://www.ergo-log.com/stop-worrying-go-and-start-strength-training.html
This next link has a good section on the new scare about chicken and cancer. Mark makes a good point (one I often make about beef), is that they aren’t factoring in what people are eating with the chicken.
This is one of the reasons it is important to know the mechanisms and the physiology of what’s going on, not just look at stats. Case in point: Ever go to a BBQ restaurant and see an obese and unhealthy person just eating a pound of brisket or smoked turkey? No, it is usually slathered in sugary sauce, and by caloric content, the carb-load side dishes vastly outweigh the meat. https://www.marksdailyapple.com/does-chicken-cause-cancer-should-you-neuter-dog-collagen-and-skipping-dinner/
Video of The Week:
One comment on the video: Note that she makes reference to Mediterranean Diet. The issue I have with that particular popular diet is that it does not limit palette options, and really, turns into the same old “everything in moderation” thing that has been proven over and over to be a failure for a nutritional strategy. What it ends up being is whatever people want it to be.
Also note, that at about 11:50 she makes a note that any variation of the Mediterranean Diet that failed to include red meat DID NOT improve symptoms of depression.
This is the podcast that some social media sources are filtering and removing comparing beef to plant proteins, and boy can I see why after listening. I stay abreast of this topic, but even I learned quite a bit about the absolute statistical gymnastics that must be performed in order to vilify beef as a food source with regards to environmental impact…I should add that the person being interviewed on the podcast was heavily involved in the research that came up with these stats. Follow the money, people. https://sustainabledish.com/podcasts/sustainable-dish-episode-78-beyond-burger-vs-real-burgers-with-sara-place-2/
Video of The Week:
Art DeVany. This is the book and person that started me down the ancestral nutrition and health rabbithole almost 10 years ago. It’s really all right there. There we’ve dived into the minutia of it, but the nuts and bolts of optimal nutrition is all right here.
Show this photo next time someone talks about environment or sustainability issues when it comes to beef. This is where a lot of beef comes from, even if they might spend some of their lives in feedlots. Notice they are still bunched up, and crowd together whether they have 1,000,000 acres to roam or 5 acres. That’s what herd animals do for protection.
They are at about 6200ft eating natural grasses. Nothing else will grow here, and cattle grazing in the region helps to minimize the impact of the occasional brush fire. There is very little water, which comes from natural springs, a few creeks and rainfall. This area is about 40 miles from the nearest paved road only accessible by horse, a substantial 4×4 or ATV, the kinds of places people that order “Impossible Burgers” never set foot on.
Obviously, these cows are not destroying the environment, and you’ll find deer, elk, antelope (the hillside here is called Antelope Ridge) coyotes, hawks, eagles, snakes, etc. The photo with the GPS coordinates is for reference and was not far from here.
Nearest town is Triangle, Idaho, and this is on public land that you and I can both use for recreation.