(Post dedicated to Mr. Lyle McDonald, who's always been right about this) Dismiss the unbridled deconstructionists and reductionists who say stuff like "we don't burn calories, we metabolize molecules," and other such twists on that. It's like saying there's no point in using a ruler or tape measure because it's all atoms and sub-atomic particles. It's worse than tossing the baby out with ...
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Arthur De Vany on Facebook; 1985 Paleo
For years and years, people have been asking me, "where is Art De Vany?" Right here. Take an old narrative, make money and prestige off of it, then defend how right and just you were from the beginning, for the rest of your life. I generally laugh at the idea. Sure, perhaps you're Einstein and your ideas still stand up to thousands trying to falsify them. Rare. Usually, everyone including ...
Want To Get Uber Fat? Jimmy Moore Can Help You
I was on a forum the other day and someone posed the question: how might they gain weight on a ketogenic diet. The answer to the question is obvious. Jimmy Moore is the world-champion for gaining weight on a low-carb or ketogenic diet. Nobody comes close to how many pounds he can pack on "gaining health" whilst fleecing sycophantic morons who lack so much core conscience that they don't give a ...
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He said it all, way back. ...
I’ve Gone and “Cyberbullied” Poor Jimmy Moore
Someone messaged me this yesterday. It's From Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low-Carb group on Facebook. Oh, cry me a river of orange-flavored exogenous ketone-drink, Jimmy. What is it? Eight YEARS now, since 2008...you know, back when you were still doing reasonably decent with that 180-pound weight loss under your belt by following a sensible, Atkin's style low-carbohydrate diet with ...
The Whole Dramatic Story: Neighbor Files Civil Harassment Restraining Order Against Me
It all began one late afternoon two months ago, February 12, 2017. While we have a doggie door and fenced area in back, they're dogs. Periodically they must absolutely see if the rest of the yard checks out...not to mention the added necessity of marking a perimeter. Those pungent aromas don't last forever, you know. They require regular and continued maintenance. So I let them down in front ...
More High Protein Meals
Time for an update on how it's been going with the high protein, generally trade off carbs and fat. So, good protein all the time, but when higher fat, then low carb and when higher carb, low fat. You can see the last post and pics here. This last dish was helped quite a bit by how I use the Lose It! app, which is the ...
Our Freeloading, Rent-Seeking, Parasitic Civilization
I'm in no mood and this is no April Fools... I was emailed by a friend yesterday asking what I think about this (links here and here): Meh...all were doing is twiddling our thumbs right now. The welfare state (which is 200 trillion in debt), is in the process of collapsing in on itself (look at federal and state pensions currently going bankrupt and slashing pension payments because they're ...
Alex Tizon: The First Intellectual I Ever Met
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author, and journalism professor Alex Tizon died in his sleep a couple of nights ago at 58, no apparent precursors anyone was aware of. You know how that happens, young and by surprise. Chief candidates are aneurysm, stroke, myocardial infarction—the surprise killers. He was 58, showing zero signs; lean and vibrant health. I wrote this on Facebook this ...
A Longevity Juxtaposition: Ron Rosedale vs. Arthur De Vany
This is a post for health science geeks. Yesterday, I posted about how focussing on lean protein—while trading off fat and carbohydrate—might do two things, particularly in the context of overweight folk who might, both, want to drop the weight...while, also, resetting or reprogramming their neurological "setpoint" that motivates biological insatiable drives to want to defend or regain it via ...
Using Protein To Rewire Weight Set Point
Ever since reading Stephan Guyenet's book, The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, I've been mulling over protein. I fist discussed it towards the end of this post, including a comment by Stephan himself on the subject. The idea is simple: Target lots of lean protein. When eaten with higher fat, go low-carb. When eaten with higher carb, go low-fat. I'll give ...
Embrace The Coming Slave Economy
We already know that a slave economy raises all non-slave boats. Consult history. The problem, economically, was that there were problems with the slave stock that were human in nature. Like pregnancy, slave-owner abuses over "insubordination," as well as slave-owner sexual preferences over the wife unit... The list goes on. Even if all that could be managed in purely economic terms, you ...
MSNBC’s Rachel Mad Cow Takes Donald Trump’s Bait
I had lots of other stuff to do today, since I just spent mind-numbing hours yesterday doing my "taxes" (euphemism). But how serendipitous, when the story of the day turned out to be Donald Trump's 2005 tax filing, where he got hit for $38 Million. And me, yesterday? Uh, a bit less than that. :) ...What a silly shill, Rachel Maddow—Mad Cow. She cried on MSNBC on November 8, and now, 4 months ...
When SNL Mocks How Fucking Stupid They Are
"Did you afford me a choice when you cut off my balls?" and "you masturbate when you're bored." Wait for both. The only thing that could possibly make this skit better is if Alec Baldwin played the role of the dog. I have beat drums for months and months to signal that every leftist, every Democrat you know, is an abject moron, and it's why they are leftists and Democrats. There are ...
Dr. David Ludwig: Some Fine Dot Connecting
Woke up this morning to notification of yet another blog post by Mike Eades. In it, he points to a relatively short presentation (30 minutes) by Dr. David Ludwig of Harvard University at the Ambition Nutrition Conference. Mike goes on to provide his notes on the presentation with time stamps. I found them intriguing enough to watch the presentation which I think is a good one, and jot off a ...
Has Everbody Been Wrong About Orange Juice?
I actually remember this hubub by Dr. Paresh Dandona back close to the time I started blogging on health and diet. Here it is again, in more detail, in Mother Jones: Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. Paresh Dandona, a diabetes specialist in Buffalo, New York, set out to measure the body's response to McDonald's—specifically ...
What Just Went Down:
On Friday, Feb 17, Beatrice got up here to the cabin. A week was in store for us and the doggies. It tuned into a 13-day family medical intervention. Here are the high points. By Sunday, shit was looking grim. Her mom, mid-80s, with a non aggressive form of lymphoma that had been acting up, was under care and plan to deal with it. A low-dose chemo, pill form. But, they thought some measures ...
Where Out Of Hell Did Liz Wheeler Come From?
Holy shit. Who is this chickie hot cake with a big smart brain? Every. Word. Well, while Tucker Carlson is doing good work in the FOX slot formerly occupied by Megyn, this gal, with a fat contract, would better fill that role, since its traditionally a babe role, and you can easily tell she's as good as Megyn in looks, better in brains. ...
More In Common With Religious Conservatives Than Libertarians And Anarchitsts
I am an anarchist, philosophically. I do not believe in any imperative for a State, or a government that runs it; and I certainly reject the political philosophy that holds to the existence of some "social contract" (that's really in competition with and contradicts the political philosophy of natural rights). And yet, the politically oppressive, rights-violating state is the given, and it has ...
Just Another Day
Banal title. The pic is of the newest private rental we've scrounged while down here in SoCal, day 11 but under less than ideal circumstances. Things are better on that score. Anyway, once I get back home to my office and huge-ass screen and pine wood plank floors and fresh ground coffee in the morning I'm going to do all this all different, but this is what I spouted on Facebook today, which ...