Health Diet Fitness

Alcohol Doesn’t Become Fat. It Stops Fat Burning. This has been a pet peeve of mine forever, one I’ve heard since I was a kid. “He has a beer belly.” Nobody has ever had a beer belly. Zero people on the face of this planet have ever had a beer belly. You idiots always ignore…

I’ve had this notion ever since I moved to Thailand nearly seven years ago, in early 2020. I came here quite a lot in the late 1980s, spending months in the country over several different trips, and I can’t recall ever seeing a fat person. I’m sure they existed, but there weren’t enough of them…

As you can see, that’s not carnivore diet compliant (plus there are other regular things like a few dates daily due to very high potassium … just 3 dates: 200 mg potassium). But I got to this place largely by seeing an increasing number of high-meat-eating and carnivore-diet types talk about going to all or…

I’ve got a real and true treat for a lot of you. I’m 65 years old and cannot remember a time in my life that I was not suffering some level of respiratory and sinus deficit. Some level is always there…like a very frequent need to blow my nose. Perhaps the worst, more than the…

An image of the new inverted food pyramid is actually a little bit difficult to find online, and there’s a damn good reason for that—which I’ll get into in a minute. You see, the food pyramid has been around since the 1950s or ’60s—some shit like that—but no human on this planet ever gave it…

You wouldn’t be reading this if not for Art. In 2007, on my own initiative, I began getting a grip on my health by cleaning up my diet and hitting the gym. But it was the way I was doing the gym that caught the interest of a reader who commented, “you sound like Art…

I’ve been in the doldrums for a while now, and that’s reflected in my production on this blog. Apologies to paying members, but along with that, I was always concerned about how I spike things up again. What happened is that I suddenly became, shall we say, financially independent. I don’t have to lift a…

Well, it’s been a long damn time since I first dove into this whole thing via a low-carb Paleo diet back in 2007 or 2008, sometime around there. I did damn well with it. I lost about 50-60 pounds, and serendipitously, I became somewhat of a dietary influencer. My blog grew—this very blog, FreeTheAnimal.com—and it…

Disclosure: I use Grok as an executive secretary and editor to polish up my dictation (speech-to-text). This post was dictated, polished by Grok, final edits by me. All ideas are my own. In the ever-evolving world of diet trends, few movements have splintered as dramatically as low-carb. It’s almost like Protestantism—starting with a core idea…