Not exactly rocket science, is it?

If Paul (astrophysicist) Jaminet met Jack (neurosurgeon) Kruse ;-)

The paleo diet was recently ridiculed as a food fad in Natural’s Not In It. It also came last in a US News Best Diets survey.

Ways of eating such as very-low-carbohydrate, low-carbohydrate, low-reward, paleo, primal, ancestral, just eat real food etc discourage the consumption of manufactured food products and encourage the consumption of produce. If a large percentage of the population stop filling their shopping baskets with manufactured food products and start filling them with produce, who suffers? Not exactly...

This is why the food manufacturing industry tries to ensure that the population gets the best nutritional and dietetic advice that money can buy. See also New study: Big Food’s ties to Registered Dietitians.

While libertarians and anarchists moan about freedom from government interference, the food manufacturing industry has the freedom to crap all over the aforementioned diets and influence people to buy manufactured food products. Morbidity is also very profitable for healthcare and drug companies.

I think that I've now flogged this particular horse to death!

Herd Immunity

This is good

We are not elite....

This blog has been getting a bit quieter of late.  My work has been taking a lot of my focus but also I've been reassessing what I post here and why.   I have been posting fewer of the scientific abstracts that I used to put up.  I have realised that I am not always familiar enough with the science to comment accurately on what I am reading.  There are others who do a great job - Adel at Suppversity or Chris Beardsley for example.  I may still put studies up here, but for the in depth analysis, you need to look elsewhere.

I suppose that one of the themes recently has been my own progress and experience.

Christmas and New Year saw me add about 7 lbs in weight - fat mostly - as I loosened up on my diet for a couple of weeks.   Back into a routine again, things are settling down and I am returning to where I was at the end of December.

My training stays the same:

• I walk for about 3 miles a day: either to or from work plus time at lunch;
• I train in the gym once a week - with weights and bodyweight exercises
• At the weekend I try to get a longer walk in, up in the hills.
• I try to play a little too - balance work, floor work, crawling, standing up in different ways, squatting etc - each day.

That is all.  

I am also increasingly aware that so much of the stuff that I read is focussed on elite athletes....yet so few of us are elite.  

What most of us need is something simple, straightforward, safe and achievable that fits in among the rest of life.  There are lots of competing priorities wanting our time....  First do no harm - try never to get injured....minimise the risk.

There is so much information out there now on the internet, so many different programmes, ideas and gurus.  So many rabbit holes to get sucked down.  For a while I was sucked deep into the Paleo thing....but I see some flaws in that now (Just Eat Real Food is one thing.... paleo takes it a little far in some respects).  At one point I was a committed low carber....no more.      Now I tend to be a bit more moderate in all things.  All of the interent gurus and cults are annoying me too.

I find myself coming back to training and eating how I used to 20 years ago....before I knew so much!

This is all a bit rambling and disconnected, but I wanted to get a few things out there.

Extreme Football Tennis

Some great tumbling.......  The hoop stuff from 3:00 is amazing

Weight Loss Shake Recipes - Delicious Healthy Smoothie

Weight Loss Shake Recipes

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So How Can You Speed up Your Body weight Reduction Benefits from Fat Loss Shakes?

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The NHS blogs on Intermittent Fasting

Interesting to see the NHS Choices blog  - which helpfully examines those science stories that hit the headlines in the light of the science - look at intermittent fasting.

Does the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet work?

It is pretty sceptical about some of the purported health benefits.

Beware of false idols

This is a good post from Edinburgh Krav Maga.  It fits in with some of my recent thinking and disillusionment with all the the gurus and cult worship in the world of health fitness and diet.

The context of this is self defence and martial arts, but it applies to a lot of life

Beware of False Idols

No one way is best. Nobody has it all, no one has all the answers. You are smart enough to do your own research and work out what is the best course of action for you to achieve your goals. Seek quality advice from sources who will put you before themselves and their wallets. Just because something is worldwide and or originates in a foreign country it doesn't necessarily make it better.......

The world is full of amazing and interesting people with stories to share and things to teach. However, never overlook the local guy or the guy a few towns up from you who I'm sure can teach you so much without the need to travel to the ends of the earth. 

I think in the UK and Europe, we are very prone to look to the USA as if that country holds all of the expertise.  We see their athletes and assume that they have all of the best techniques and approaches.  They quickly assume guru status.  We need to be more confident in ourselves and our expertise, not only as individuals, but as a nation.