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3 eggs
Chopped parsley
Splash of water
Good
Adheres to dietary guidelines of
Total prep time: 5 minutes.
Who are you going to believe? This post by Tim Ferris, excerpting a new book on the Paleo approach to diet and wellness, describes one major viewpoint in the current conflict: getting rid of grains, and why.
I'm waiting to see what a different upcoming book, The Spartan Diet, has to say about allowing certain whole grains into a super healthy diet. It's corresponding blog has been quite the read for a closet Classical Civilization major like myself -- though there's a big, big difference between "the glory that was Greece/ the grandeur that was Rome" and the dirt-in-your-sandals reality. (The SD folk seem to appreciate this, but we'll see.)
You have to be careful, seeking a guide for the the here and now based in the idealized fantasies of a Golden Age.
A number of folks are looking back to prehistory for an ideal, healthy approach to eating. The Spartan Diet goes back to some pretty closed-lip, if not pre-linguistic, hardasses, and the Paleo and Primal Diets go all the way back to Ug and Grok. "Shut up and kill," or gather and hunt. Settling down and baking pasta from waving fields of grain was nowhere in sight.
The Paleo Solution isn't new: The Primal Blueprint, The Paleo Diet, and Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution (in addition to The Zone Diet, South Beach Diet, etc.) have been pushing a lo-no starch diet for years. Its author, Robb Wolf, seems to go farther in explaining the whys and wherefores of this, particularly the biochemistry between his recommendation to completely eliminate grains (and other sources of anti-nutrients) from the diet. A WHOLE lot of comments follow, many supportive, most skeptical.
If you lack an advanced degree in biochemistry and nutrition, who are you to believe? Especially if you've eaten a grain-rich diet up until now, with no apparent ill effects (or have had negative experiences when you tried to eliminate said starches)?
More thoughts on this to come...but the reading is absolutely fascinating.
Not entirely sure why I've become a CARB DEVOURING MONSTER this past week, but it's time to stuff Mr. S. Tarch Hyde back into the shadows.
Ingredients:
Pretty much zero prep time, no carbs to speak of, and muy high in protein and omega-3s (from the fish, the nuts, and the oil).
To go lower on the sodium (the sardines have about 500 mg), substitute a hardboiled egg or two and don't add salt.
Morning routine, replete with vitamin D, wind in the hair, hugs and sunshine:
BP still doing alright -- no longer in the hypertensive range, though I'd still like it lower. So next steps will be losing another 5-10 lbs, and carefully adding another activity layer to the running foundation, all while carefully monitoring BP, energy levels, injury proofing, etc.
Equals guiltless, essentially no-carb meal.
Okay -- minus the olive roll with buttah.
Later, 3 rounds of the following, with a 2 minute vibratory, shake-it-out break betwixt:
Nice jaunt in the park, working on Mike's skateboarding skills and puppy walking, for cooldown, post.
Or close enough: their Chopped Chicken Cobb contains
'Twas a toss-up, between driving for this, and walking a few blocks for a turkey, lettuce, tomato, bacon, and avocado sandwich, on wheat toast.
Ultimately, the nixing of the grains won.
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