Update on Paradise

Today in Paradise:

Not long ago I decided to start checking my glucose.  I checked it a lot.  Before I ate, after I ate, when I woke up.  And it was something that was giving me unfortunate results.  Usually it was over 100 when I woke up, which is wrong, wrong, wrong.  Then I decided to get a ketone monitor, since for a long time I have followed a ketogenic diet but it wasn't delivering results.  

This is an update on the results of my recent efforts at a carnivore/alternate day fasting diet.  I had several reasons for doing this.  I decided that fiber is my problem, for the moment, so I added no fiber to my low carb diet, which equals the carnivore diet.  It's really a nice diet, because I enjoy steakos.  However, some said they eat cruciferous vegetables on the carnivore diet.  That I don't do, because that was exactly what I was already doing that wasn't working.  

But then I saw a video by Butter Makes Your Pants Fall Off on Youtube saying that alternate day fasting for 22 days has been shown to lower insulin resistance by 68%.  I'm in! I thought.  So that's what I've been doing.  

This is my third round of fasting, making it Day 6 of this plan.  How's it working?  It actually does work!

The first difference is that I have slept so much better since I've been doing this.  I slept wonderfully for several nights.  I had been tossing and turning and feeling tired all day.  It was worth it just for that.  

The second difference is that I'm finally in solid ketosis. My meter had read 0.3.  Now it reads between 1.8 and 5.8.  

Yes, I've lost weight, about ??  I don't know.  Yesterday I was 1/2 a pound less than the day before.  

Finally, the most surprising thing to me.  My fasting blood sugar is down to 98 from 106.  The doctor told me not to worry about the 106, but I think it is cause for concern.  This is prediabetes.  And that was after all my effort at a ketogenic diet.  According to the video, and this appears to be true in my case, some of us cannot control blood sugar by diet alone.  It requires fasting.  

It may seem difficult to fast every other day.  I haven't found it to be too hard, and I am really happy with my progress.  At the end of the 22 days I am not sure of the plan.  Maybe fast every three or four days or something.  I can't imagine it will be as simple as just going back to a ketogenic diet like a normal person would do.  

Oh, I also bought a little oxygen monitor for my finger.  I use it to see where I'm at with high intensity interval training.  I have a stepping machine, and I like it because it will csuse huffing and puffing like nothing else, and really elevate the heart rate, at the same time being gentle on the legs and joints.  So far I use it for a minute or so for a warm up, then knock myself out for thirty seconds at a heart rate of 150 beats a minute, rest for 4 (four) minutes, and repeat.  Surprisingly, I'm wasted after that, even though it doesn't seem like much.  I want to increase this to four rounds of the thirty seconds at 150 beats a minute, and do that three times a week.  

So far my diet and exercise has resulted in my oxygen levels going from 95 to 97.  

So finally success on the health front.  And that's life in this corner of paradise today.  

PS. Also when I woke up my blood pressure was 117/76.  

The Carnivore Diet

It all started when I was very young.  I was much taller than any of my siblings, even though I wasn't the oldest.  At 8, I received my first proposal of marriage.  My mother once asked the doctor about the early development, and he said it was something that sometimes happened to Norwegian children.  OK.  I excelled at school, which was assumed to be due to repeating the grade a few times.  I was treated as an adult at 11, and people were always angry because I wasn't carrying my weight and I seemed so woefully ignorant and acted like a child.  I remember a boy who was also large for his age.  Like me, he was Norwegian heritage, so maybe there's something to that.   The point?  Some things aren't the fault of anyone.  

And how does that tie into the carnivore decision?  Well, somewhere in this mix is an insulin problem, too much insulin.  It causes growth and weight gain.  It is related to estrogen problems, which is fed to cattle on feed lots to fatten them for market.  I complained to this once to a friend (male) who said that I should just go to a doctor and have my estrogen blocked.  Really?  The day after he had his testosterone blocked.   Ultimately, the cure is diet. 

Being female caused twice the problems with growth and weight gain, since estrogen is a growth hormone, and I actually had four times the normal levels.  

At 11 I stopped growing, I suppose because the combination of high growth hormone added to the infusions of estrogen from puberty turned my system on its head, and it decided to intervene by reducing general hormone levels. Soon with the growth spurts of all my peers, I was not a tall girl anymore and I had a new problem, which was physical bullying.   My older brother didn't physical abuse me, but he was thrilled that I had problems and said that it embarrassed him that people at school would discover that we were related, as if I could fix that.    

I did my best with diet, but it was never enough.  As a teenager I suppose I was saved by the fact that there wasn't enough food available for me to gain weight on.  As an adult I really faced a difficult scenario, eventually finding that if I didn't totally fast two or three days a week, I would gain two pounds a week.  Woe to any woman in America that gains weight.  The level of intense pressure on people, especially women, to be slender is unbelievable. But I did gain weight, and with it there was more physical and verbal bullying, apparently from people who imagined they were helping me to see the error of my ways and lose weight.  Or just men who hated women.  

I attempted to diet using all the wisdom the AMA has to offer, which is less than zero.  Reduce your fat intake and calories, they said.  That is actually a good way to gain weight, which is what happened.  After a few miserable tries at this, and being fatter for my efforts, I saw that there was a problem.  

What problem? one asks.  No one in a concentration camp is fat.  Really?  Wait till they get out and eat something.  Their lowered metabolic rate will cause them to gain weight in a hurry on fewer calories than what usually translates to weight gain.   

One thing that really helped me was an elimination diet.  A doctor encouraged me to test foods by eating them one at a time, giving me three foods to try each day, one at each meal.  After a while I settled on about twenty foods that worked well, but these had to be rotated so that I didn't eat the same food more than once every four days.  Might I add that this was a hyper vegan diet just by chance.  I have no special convictions about being a vegan.  Why?  I guess because Jesus ate animal food, and that was a good enough endorsement for me.  This diet did great things for my general health, clearing up all sorts of problems like rashes and sleep problems.  And btw, it was also low starch, since there were no grains that I could tolerate.  I ate beans and fruit mainly. Or just went hungry. 

Oh, did I try exercise? Yes, I knocked myself out with exercise.  It helped a lot, but eventually not enough.  

Why didn't I just stick with the elimination diet?  I did stick to it for a year and managed to function well all that time.  I just wanted to find a way that was less draconian.   Besides that, I don't feel this diet would have continued to work well indefinitely.  It was a good stop gap measure.  

So eventually I found the low carb diet.  This diet was miraculous for me and I did very well on it.  I feel that a lot of people would benefit from this diet, but I do think that there is a lot of individual variation with what works for different people.  Some people with kidney problems, for example, find a great deal of improvement in their health from a low protein diet.  I have even noticed that a low protein diet seems to do OK for me.  I would say that a lot of the improvement people with some health issues that many notice on a vegan diet is from the reduced efforts the kidneys need to make to operate on a low protein diet.  But I don't feel that everyone needs to go this route.  What I really found strange was the concept that some vegans have that a vegan diet is more "ethical".  Therefore a non vegan diet is evil.  I'm low carb scum.  OK.  New ways of bullying.  Why don't they learn to be ethical to people and not bully them?  

My journey went well for a long time, but then I hit a bump in the road.  I somehow came down with an illness for which I found no help at all from the medical community and was almost left to die.  Finally a clinic I visited went home for a holiday, leaving a skeleton crew to take care of patients.  The doctor that was left tried to brainstorm what could be done to help, for which I am eternally grateful.  "Have you tried fasting?" he asked.  He suggested a 30 day fast, and from that moment I was fasting, until 21 days later.  But that was OK because I was well again by that time.  And I was a lot thinner.  

So I began for a while to manage my life by fasting for a few days, and then trying to eat a low carb diet between fasts.  And that's how I limped along.  It annoyed me when people complimented me on how I had started to "take care of myself."  Let them fast for weeks at a time.  It's not fun.  A lot of people said this would never work.  Well, this did work.  

But one day I had fasting blood tests done that showed that I was prediabetic and headed for diabetes!  This was alarming.  I began to pay hyper attention to anything that anyone who had been diabetic or prediabetic had to say about what to do.  What did they say?  Eat a low carb or lately, ketogenic diet.  I think ketogenic was closer to my diet anyway.  And where did that get me?  Prediabetes.  I kept hearing shriller and shriller voices saying eat less carbs, and I had already only eaten 20 grams a day for several years.  

I decided to go on a sprout diet, because they were low carb and I thought I needed more produce, and sprouts were an easy source of fresh produce.  I didn't weigh myself at first, until I noticed that my clothes were too tight.  Yikes.  I had gained weight on sprouts.  How?

During the fasting I noticed something curious.  The general relief my system felt during a fast was so remarkable it could only be likened to recovery from poisoning.   Food was poisonous!  Could this be?  In fact, it actually is true.  Check out every single plant food.  They are full of toxins - oxalates for example in beans.  In fact, lima beans when improperly cooked contain cyanide, enough to kill people sometimes.  Kidney beans are the most toxic. But they're all like that.  My favorite is sulfarophane in cruciferous vegetables.  Broccoli sprouts contain 50 times the sufarophane of mature broccoli.  The sulfarophane in broccoli sprouts has been found to inhibit cancer and has been used to treat breast and liver cancer.  But more than a quart of these sprouts can be detrimental.  So there is a level of toxins that can do some good.  I liked the way that the broccoli sprouts reduced inflammation.   Tomatoes and other members of the nightshade family are famous for their toxic mischief, which explains the arthritis many suffer from eating them. 

Well, no wonder the diet road is so treacherous.  The food is poisonous.  There's only so much you can do about that.  You do what you can.  

Recently some have begun to condemn fiber which is found in plant foods.  I thought this was silly, but I saw a video that explained that fiber can't be digested by people, but if one's microbiota had gone off track, bad bacteria would eat the fiber, which could actually result in weight gain from fiber.  This was something to think about.  It would explain gaining weight on a sprout diet.  

So what should one do about the microbes going awry in one's gut and exploding the body by eating fiber?  There was no information on that.  Just be aware of that.  OK.  The only suggestion was to stop eating fiber.  This from someone who was famous for pushing seven cups of salad a day.  Fine.  

Meantime the Carnivore Diet was becoming popular.  No fiber, no carbs.  This was for me.  

Then another helpful video appeared on the horizon saying that for some, maybe even many, diet alone wouldn't fix insulin resistance.  This was a relief to hear.  So what would?  He said that it had been found that fasting every other day for three weeks would reduce insulin resistance by 68%. Oh really?  

So, that's what I'm doing now.  Fasting one day, the carnivore diet the next.  It's going OK.  I decided to take two tablespoons of nutritional yeast today, then read the label.  Oh horrors!  Five grams of fiber!!  All that sacrifice to avoid fiber and I wasted it on nutritional yeast?  No, I'll just be eating meat or fasting.  Forever?  No, I don't know how long.  Until this ship turns around.  

The Deluge

The World Before the Flood

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Noah's ark

No Health Guarantees In the Vegan Diet

http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com/2012/06/fact-health-guarantees-do-not.html

Fact: There's No Health Guarantees with being Vegan

I have seen so many “vegan advocates” misinform the public as to what vegans are and why to become vegan. I recently read a well-known vegan advocate trying to get a family member to become vegan based on “not getting osteoporosis”. You might be able to advocate for this family member to give up animal protein and dairy in an attempt to avoid osteoporosis, but veganism extends beyond diet, for starters.

Secondly, it might be true that drinking cow's milk leaches calcium from the bones and leads to osteoporosis, (however there is not a lot of published medical studies proving this to be true), oddly enough. In "western civilization", dairy products are promoted to actually prevent osteoporosis. However, if this were true, it would be reasonable to assume then that osteoporosis would be rare in the U.S. and other countries that eat a lot of animal products. Yet, it is more rampant in these nations than in less developed countries who don't consume much cow's milk. Dr.  Michael Klaper, M.D. (a vegan) and T. Colin Campbell (The China Study) and others - have indeed reported that cow's milk and animal protein leaches calcium from bones: 

http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis
http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/qa05.htm
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov96/osteoporosis.ssl.html

However, other factors can contribute to osteoporosis other than consuming animal products, like menopause and hormone changes. So a vegan or someone that does not consume cow's milk CAN still get osteoporosis. Early menopause is another reason someone (even a vegan) could get osteoporosis: 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_124476.html
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/menopause/hic_menopause_and_osteoporosis.aspx
I am vegan, and I went through early menopause, which puts me at risk of osteoporosis. An adequate calcium intake is essential for bone health, whether one is eats a vegan diet or an omnivorous diet. 

I want vegans to know that being vegan is certainly not enough to ensure not getting osteoporosis or osteoarthritis, hearing loss, stroke, cancer, or other diseases. Becoming vegan is a stance of non-participation in animal exploitation. Beyond that, vegans still need to ensure they are getting all their nutrients, and sometimes that means getting tested and supplementing, and/or changing ones diet to consist only of whole foods: raw seeds, nuts, abundant raw fruit and vegetables, green drinks, as well as whole grains and legumes, tempeh – in other words super nutrition; not processed foods, as well as adequate physical exercise, living in a clean environment (which is getting progressively harder to accomplish), and a “desire to live and be healthy”, mindset or 'happiness' levels. 

I have known several vegans who died of cancer. I've known vegans who died in their 60's and early 70's, and one at age 40 from an apparent congenital heart disease. One friend who had cancer, said that he would rather die than give up his “tofutti-cuties and eat a raw foods diet”. He did die, (possibly from the chemotherapy).

Marti Kheel, a vegan advocate, died at age 63 of acute myeloid leukemia. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=marti-kheel&pid=154705056

Jay Dinshah, president and founder of the American Vegan Society, died of a heart-attack at age 66, proving that vegan diet alone is not enough to ensure cardiovascular health as the years move on. Vegans need to ensure they are getting their omega 3 essential fatty acids, as well as B12, according to some sources. In the wake of Jay Dinshah's death, Dr. Klaper said this:

“Elevated blood levels of homocysteine, a byproduct of the metabolism of the essential amino acid methionine, can contribute to damage of the artery walls, which is viewed as an early step in the build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries. Cobalamin (vitamin B12) is essential for the metabolism and elimination of homocysteine, and if vitamin B12 in the blood is not adequate, homocysteine may rise to artery-damaging levels. Because modern-day vegans and vegetarians do not consume vitamin B12 from our environment as did our ancestors (on the surface of root vegetables, drinking water from free-flowing streams and wells, etc.), people nourishing themselves on exclusively plant-based foods would be wise to consume vitamin B12-enriched foods, or some food or supplement containing at least 5 to 10 micrograms (mcg.) of vitamin B12 one to two times weekly.” Source: http://www.earthsave.org/lifestyle/dinshah.htm

I have a personal friend who is most definitely vegan, and very unhealthy. She has had life-long health issues. I don't say this to make vegans look like unhealthy specimens because generally they are healthier than animal-product eating humans, but someone CAN be vegan and yet be unhealthy. Her plant-powered eating may have kept her going, where she might otherwise have died if eating the standard diet most people eat. Same with my vegan friend who died at age 40 of a heart attack... perhaps eating vegan kept him alive longer than he would have lived? We don't know. The statistics show that vegans have a better chance of not getting heart disease and stroke, etc. - however Shirley Wilkes Johnson, a vegan advocate, died of a stroke at age 74

There are other factors beside just eating a vegan diet that contribute to health and longevity - such as weight, environmental toxins and pollution, ones own thought processes and desire to live, genetics, not getting necessary nutrients, as well as the unknown msyteries of life.

There are no health guarantees. I DO believe we have a better chance of health eating from the plant kingdom and that animal flesh and secretions is not suited to our species. I believe that we can become knowledgeable and learn what we need to do to maintain super health while living a vegan life, and that is what I endeavor to do. The Vegan Society gives us hope with these words: 

“We can take inspiration from many of the early vegan pioneers - Arthur Ling (founder of Plamil Foods), Eva Batt (author of the first vegan cookbook), Kathleen Jannaway (founder of Movement for Compassionate Living) and Donald Watson (founder of the Vegan Society) to name but a few, who lived fit and healthy lives well into their 80s - Donald Watson continued to walk and climb mountains in his 90s! These early members of the Vegan Society following its formation in 1944 had no experience to draw upon.” Source: http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/over-60s.aspx  

I chose to live vegan the last 33 years based on ethical reasons towards other sentient beings. When I became vegan, people said "you are going to die"...so my becoming vegan was never based on health - I didn't know if eating a plant diet 'was' or 'was not' healthier. I didn't die, but got much healthier from eating and living vegan, luckily. And those people who said "you're going to die", sure are a lot less healthy than me (basically, I'm in very good health.) I believe in veganism. But I don't believe in the way some educators misinform others that veganism is a panacea and cure-all for human health. It's an ethical position, and then beyond that - one can choose to be health conscientious. Unlike the aforementioned vegan pioneers, we have the benefit of reading studies about vegan health, and I implore vegans to educate themselves about nutritional needs, extensively.

Generally, vegans live healthier than the general public, but not always. And they do get osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, cancer, stroke, you name it. I wish it were not true. I wish vegans were protected and exempt from disease, as I use to naively think in my early years of being vegan. I now know that eating a plant-powered diet - does not necessarily protect us from all dreaded diseases. As we age, whether vegan or not vegan, “shit happens” in our physical bodies, and we need extra care. As it happens, many vegan foods have nourishing, healing, and medicinal qualities. Here is a post that will guide your food choices.

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IS THE U.S. BECOMING A POLICE STATE?

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IS THE US BECOMING A POLICE STATE?

Militarized police, sophisticated surveillance, and normal citizens with little say in what goes on. The US has all the trappings of an all-powerful police state.

Police State:

Definition:
1. A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens’ activities.

1.) So is the U.S. a totalitarian state?
No. It’s an inverted totalitarian state. 

NAZI GERMANY VS. U.S.

Nazi Germany: State dominated economic actors.
U.S.: Corporations control the government through political contributions and lobbying.

Nazi Germany: Constant political motivation (rallies support for leaders) with Nuremberg rallies, and Hitler Youth
U.S.: Persistent political apathy (allows leaders to do what they want).

Nazi Germany: Mocked democracy.
U.S.: Pretends to be the model of democracy for the whole world.

The US is a ‘managed democracy.’
Definition: a political form in which governments are legitimated by elections that they have learned to control.

We definitely have the policing power:
Over the last 25 years, civilian law enforcement has been increasingly militarized in America.

There has been a 4000% increase in “no knock,” military-armed SWAT raids over the past 30 years.

Yearly Swat Deployments:[2]
1980’s 3,000
–>
1996 30,000
–>
2001 40,000
With the hotline for erroneous no-knock raids receiving more than 100 calls in one week of operation.

Even responding to calls about angry dogs and domestic disputes.
And using military tactics and weaponry on U.S. citizens.

Which looks like:

Common SWAT Armament:
Sub-machine guns
Automatic weapons
Breaching shotguns
Stun grenades
Heavy body armor
Sniper rifles
Night vision
Motion detectors
Armored Personnel Carriers
vs.
Most common weapons of violent offenders:
Knife-10.1%
Gun-12.7%
Other-12.1%
Unknown-7.6%
None-55.8%

We also have the world’s largest prison system.

The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population, and 25% of the world’s prisoners.
1/99 adults in the US are behind bars
1/31 adults are under some form of correctional control–
Including:
Prison
Jail
Parole
Probation

Imprisonment rates (2012-2013)
[# imprisoned by 100,000 people]
U.S. 716
Rwanda 492
Russia 475
Brazil 274
Spain 147
Australia 130
China 121
Canada 118
Austria 98
France 98
Germany 79
Denmark 73
Sweden 67
India 30

Over the last 40 years the US prison population has risen 700%

With the NSA providing constant surveillance
By Wiretapping…
Tapping entire offices…
And cell towers…
With 9,000 “Tower dumps” in 2013
Tower Dump = a record of all calls bounced off of a cellphone tower within a certain period of time.

The NSA gathers nearly 5 billion records a day on smartphone locations.

Co-Traveler is one of the NSA’s most powerful analytic tools.

By tracking cell locations Co-Traveler can discern who you’re traveling with.
All tower A phones = a lot
A+B tower phones = less
A+B+C phones = less
…
A+B+C+D+E+F tower phones = possible co-travelers.

— And even entire counties…
By installing fiber-optic splitters in telecom facilities.

— Your accounts online aren’t safe..
Online Accounts:[7]
Number of data requests from December 1, 2012-May 31, 2013
Yahoo: 12,000-13,000
Apple: 4,000-5,000
Microsoft: 6,000-7,000
Google: 0-999
Facebook: 9,000-10,000

Even unopened hardware is monitored…

The NSA intercepts computer shipments to plant spyware on new systems.
Much less powerful nations have been police states, why couldn’t the U.S. be one?

Citations:

1. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9175.html
2. http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
3. http://www.topcriminaljusticedegrees.org/militarization/
4. http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Trends_in_Corrections_Fact_sheet.pdf
5. https://www.aclu.org/safe-communities-fair-sentences/prison-crisis
6. http://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/locked-up-in-america/
7. http://www.inc.com/julie-strickland/nsa-tech-companies-updates.html
8. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/agencies-collected-data-on-americans-cellphone-use-in-thousands-of-tower-dumps/2013/12/08/20549190-5e80-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_story.html
9. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/how-the-nsa-is-tracking-people-right-now/634/
10. https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
11. http://www.maximumpc.com/nsa_reportedly_hijacks_pcs_install_spyware_has_backdoor_access_iphones2013

Helene Becomes a Carnivore

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing

There is a polarity in the thought on diet lately.  One decides to improve one's health.  How?  Diet and exercise.  Soon one is running into odd walls.  Why?  

The picture above is of Sylvester Graham, for whom the Graham cracker is named.  How and why did he invent the Graham cracker? Well, it involved being a Presbyterian minister.  He accepted a position at the Philadelphia Temperance Society in 1829 and shortly afterwards decided to focus on preaching on health.   While at the Philadelphia Temperance Society he was in company of two other fathers of American vegetarianism, William Metcalfe, who established a vegetarian church, and William Alcott, who wrote the first American vegetarian cookbook.  Graham came to believe that meat was as detrimental as alcohol to the intemperate life, and had to go.  He was also appalled at the manner of bread making at the time, which truly was deplorable.  Putting it all together he became the Billy Graham of vegetarianism and in that vein developed Graham flour.  Taking vegetarianism to its extremes, he viewed the eating of meat as stimulating of sexual lust, and therefore eating meat was tantamount to immorality.  His views were well received, and coincided with a cholera epidemic in New York in 1832.  It appeared that those that followed his advice on vegetarianism fared better in the epidemic than others, and his following grew like wildfire. 

This mantle was then tossed to John Kellogg, a doctor and founding member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the 1860s.  Dr. Kellogg shared the belief that eating meat lead directly to vice and invented Kellogg's Corn Flakes to counteract this.  

And so the vegan movement got its start.  Today adherents continue to cite the ethics of the vegan lifestyle, but mostly the thinking has shifted away from sexual immorality to the evils of slaughtering animals for food.  With the exception of the Seventh Day Adventists, who continue to practice vegetarianism as part of their religious belief.   About three years ago I hobnobbed with a vegan community for a few weeks and tried out the vegan diet.  I was a little surprised at the rhetoric I was hearing about "meat eaters", finding it to be shrill at times.  I wasn't trying to save the animals or the planet or avoid sexual lust.  These may be worthy goals but they were a different question.  I read all the vegan literature and watched all their videos.  There were studies comparing vegans to those eating the standard American diet (SAD) but not to any other diets. I was trying to find my way to a healthy diet on a road that seems treacherous.  

For a long time I have eaten a low carb diet.  It worked better for me and my health than most other diets I have tried.  At first my numbers were just stellar, like triglycerides and blood pressure.  But the magic seemed to be disappearing.  Why?  

I saw a doctor about it.  He said I needed to eat 30 grams of fiber a day.  I like vegetables, but not enough to eat 30 grams of them.  

The truth be known, I would guess that my low carb diet was fizzling because I didn't exercise as much for a while.  

But there's a new wrinkle in diet land ... the Carnivore Diet.  One limits themselves to 100% animal products.  Some include eggs and dairy, others only meat, fish and poultry.  At first I dismissed this.  

At the same time I heard noise about our biome.  This is the bacteria in the gut that plays a large role in digestion.  It seems there are good bacteria and bad bacteria.  What do the bad bacteria like?  Fiber!  What has fiber?  Vegetables!  Therefore some people had had a lot of good things happen when they totally quit eating plant foods.  I'll say this about plant food.  I noticed a long time ago it was toxic.  But is it that toxic?  I'm not sure.  We're in a catch 22 situation with food since we have to eat something.  So one must choose their battles.  

I was finally convinced to try the Carnivore Diet because of the biome angle.  I thought it might be a good thing to starve out the bad bacteria.  After a while I could try vegetables one by one and see what worked for me.  

Then there was another problem, which was finding quality meat.  It doesn't seem to be at Walmart.  The meat in the US is almost all processed at four meat processing plants, and then distributed to the rest of the country.  One pound of hamburger can have the meat of a thousand different cows.  Besides that, these plants have a bad habit of adding pink slime to the meat to prevent it from ever spoiling.  Add to that the growth hormones, used to fatten the animals, and the antibiotics, and the meat is also mostly toxic. 

However, where I live I discovered something curious.  The ice cream shop carries meat.  I found that odd at first, but thinking it through made sense.  A huge dairy decided to open ice cream shops to sell their milk.  Then they added a grocery to the restaurant to sell cheese, milk, cream, butter, and meat, which they have due to having a huge herd.   And they don't use growth hormones or antibiotics.  In fact, their herd is grass-fed.  Then they also don't use pink slime in the meat.  I can identify meat that comes from the dairy by the improved taste without knowing where it came from.  

And so I became a carnivore and drove to the ice cream shop for my fortifications.  I'm a steako ovo creamo buttero arian.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=858&v=isIw2AN_-XU

Jordan Peterson and his daughter on the Carnivore Diet 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLF29w6YqXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fncJdVjy5U