One of the first books that really got me thinking about what I eat and how I eat it was Micahel Pollan’s In Defense of Food. His mantra for this book was simple-Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants. Michael doesn’t care about Carbs or Fats-he cares about the chemical and the artificial hiding in plain sight pretending to be food. The villain in his stories is The Western Diet-lots of processed food, lots of the holy trinity of fat, salt, and sugar, and not too many vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Food Rules contain a list of 64 guidelines…
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A Fistful of Vitamins
After a month or so on the UltraMind Solution diet and lifestyle plan, I am feeling much better. Of course, feeling better is one of those things that is often hard to put a finger on. I used to be really big on trying every kind of vitamin and supplement I could find. A lot of this stuff worked wonders-for the first week or two. Bee pollen, royal jelly, phosphatidylserine, CoQ-10 & N-Acetyle-somethng, B vitamins, and of course, coffee in all it’s wonderous forms. I am also a huge fan of Taurine, the stuff that give Red Bull it’s kick.…
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants
This is the advice is given by Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, the story of how The Western Diet replaced real food with fake food and condemned all of us to disease and general poor health. This might have been subtitled the book the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You To Read. As the villain in the story is processed foods of all kinds, from flour to Twinkies-they are all killing us. The farther we move from the lifestyle of the Hunters/Gathers that we were for twenty thousand years or so, the worse off we are. Specifically, for the past…