Okay, here comes a book: I'm all in favor of eating whole fresh foods and sticking with the outer ring of the grocery store but I grew up on a farm and ranch and did a thesis on this very topic more than once while I was in school - you would have to eat about 500 pounds of beef in a single day to suffer the ill-effects of growth-hormone-injected beef cattle. You'd die from eating that much food of any type at once before you'd get sick from the growth-hormone itself. There's no residual effect of that stuff. There's a better argument against eating red meat altogether, which I tend to not argue against even if I'm not willing to sacrifice it myself. Same goes for pesticides on produce. If you've washed the outer surface of the fruit or vegetable and cooked it as recommended, you need not worry about chemical residue inside the food. That's a bunch of baloney. YET, THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE TAKEN AS AN ARGUMENT AGAINST PALEO DIETING. It's probably a whole heckuva lot better than the way I eat and I may ultimately switch to pseudo-paleo at least. Mine is a whole other argument, instigated by that video. Free range chicken or barbecued yard birds, the old-school way, are less likely to carry salmonella - yes, good argument for that - but eat too many free range chickens and you'll run into some salmonella eventually, I promise. Beef that grazed a pasture for life will be leaner (and less tasty) than steers fattened in a feed lot but if your body can't process prime cuts of beef, you'd better not eat too many pasture-grazed cattle over the course of your life either. Go paleo, by all means, but don't buy this anti-pesticide, anti-growth-hormone propaganda. And THERE'S your Archie Bunker session for the day! I can't get sent to D-hall in CrossFit, can I?
just read your comment tony, and i laughed out loud. the video is definatley a little over-kill on that subject, but listen to everything else and we can eat good old farmed meat and veggies with no problems
Oh, I know. I was compelled to go equally over the top. Hahah! I don't doubt the science behind paleo. It's the other stuff that was sprinkled into the paleo video that got to me.
Come on with it! It re-begins today.
ReplyDeleteInteresting video, watching videos like this make you think twice about the different food we eat everyday.
ReplyDeleteGoal for 2010 is to start the Paleo diet. Thanks for the motivation.
i've been quietly on it for a month now, it was a struggle early on, but has been very worth it now that i am used to it and my body is used to it.
ReplyDelete165#, 12:25. Good first day after eating everything in sight for a few weeks.
ReplyDeleteOkay, here comes a book: I'm all in favor of eating whole fresh foods and sticking with the outer ring of the grocery store but I grew up on a farm and ranch and did a thesis on this very topic more than once while I was in school - you would have to eat about 500 pounds of beef in a single day to suffer the ill-effects of growth-hormone-injected beef cattle. You'd die from eating that much food of any type at once before you'd get sick from the growth-hormone itself. There's no residual effect of that stuff. There's a better argument against eating red meat altogether, which I tend to not argue against even if I'm not willing to sacrifice it myself. Same goes for pesticides on produce. If you've washed the outer surface of the fruit or vegetable and cooked it as recommended, you need not worry about chemical residue inside the food. That's a bunch of baloney. YET, THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE TAKEN AS AN ARGUMENT AGAINST PALEO DIETING. It's probably a whole heckuva lot better than the way I eat and I may ultimately switch to pseudo-paleo at least. Mine is a whole other argument, instigated by that video. Free range chicken or barbecued yard birds, the old-school way, are less likely to carry salmonella - yes, good argument for that - but eat too many free range chickens and you'll run into some salmonella eventually, I promise. Beef that grazed a pasture for life will be leaner (and less tasty) than steers fattened in a feed lot but if your body can't process prime cuts of beef, you'd better not eat too many pasture-grazed cattle over the course of your life either. Go paleo, by all means, but don't buy this anti-pesticide, anti-growth-hormone propaganda. And THERE'S your Archie Bunker session for the day! I can't get sent to D-hall in CrossFit, can I?
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TABATA Plank
Day 3 of Paleo, and I'm hating it a little less today.
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ReplyDeleteWOD - 12:36 #10 wall ball- med box jump - 15# DB
just read your comment tony, and i laughed out loud. the video is definatley a little over-kill on that subject, but listen to everything else and we can eat good old farmed meat and veggies with no problems
ReplyDeleteOh, I know. I was compelled to go equally over the top. Hahah! I don't doubt the science behind paleo. It's the other stuff that was sprinkled into the paleo video that got to me.
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