My grandmother finished high school in 1904 and taught school until she married. My grandfather finished the 8th grade and painted houses. They lived long, and well. They ate lard, bacon, backyard eggs, toast, potatoes, roast beef, whole fat dairy (there was nothing else), 1/9
garden veggies, and they ate only at meal time. They prepared food from scratch. They took no medications except for antibiotics for an infrequent infection. Grandma got her meat from a farmer and kept it in the town meat locker. They didn't need dietary guidelines. They 2/9
didn't need to exercise to stay healthy, they just lived their lives. They reared four children and lost two infants. I'm eating like they did, not like the AHA, ADA, or USDA ADGs suggest. I intend to be the man on the bike, not the man on the bench, like my grandparents 3/9
were. I have no children, but my cohort isn't going to be healthy grandparents that their grandchildren can admire and fondly remember. They are instead obese, chronically ill, on multiple drugs, and a few are dx with cancer, or are already dead. And that is a damn shame. 4/9
Screw the ADG (which will never be right no matter what they publish). Screw the ADA/AHA/ACS (who don't exist to prevent or help manage disease). Screw bigFood and bigPharma who answer to shareholders and are way smarter at formulating and marketing pseudofoods than you 5/9
realize. Screw religious vegan/animal rights people who only want you to believe what they believe (it's not about nutrition or science). Screw COVID! 6/9
Modern medicine is great for emergent acute care, but pretty awful at everything else. It's best to stay away from that—like the grandparents did. No one will bring good health and wellness to you, or put that in a pill. Stay well. Stay strong. If you're not, educate 7/9
yourself, (get a CGM), and then make the changes you can to get there. Don't ask for permission or forgiveness. Don't wait. What really matters is that you chose a good path for your life journey—not how well you manage moderation, eat well-balanced, eschew saturated fat 8/9
and cholesterol, get your five-a-day, eat many small meals, eat low-fat, have (healthy whole) grains every meal. If you hear that, you're on the wrong path!
Be the (person) on the bike, not the bench.
Peace. 9/end
Be the (person) on the bike, not the bench.
Peace. 9/end
