Arborist Nutrition

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Jamin,

great posts! I try to live that way too. its tough sometimes, and everyone needs at least one cheat day a week no matter what.

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I hear ya! Chocolate and/or Ben & Jerry's is my kryptonite.
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Jamin,

great posts! I try to live that way too. its tough sometimes, and everyone needs at least one cheat day a week no matter what.

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I hear ya! Chocolate and/or Ben & Jerry's is my kryptonite.
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Are you watching through my windows and reporting what you see? B&J and DARK chocolate, 65% Cocao minimum, are my downfalls. Or homemade anything.......
 
Hey, Boston, watch out for the peanut butter--Clif bars use the salmonella stuff from GA. They've been recalled, so you shouldn't be able to find them anyway.
 
For health reasons I have moved through a couple of different diets that involve some pretty serious lifestyle changes. The first was the transition to a gluten free diet. The offensive gluten protein is generally found in wheat, rye , and barley (and sometimes oats). As you can imagine that cuts out quite a few arbo food groups, most notably beer and bread. The next step was the SCD diet (specific carbohydrate diet). This diet cuts out all grains including rice and corn. No sugars or sweeteners of any kind except for honey, only fully digested cheeses, no starches (that really broke my heart ie. potatoes). So basically all I eat is lots of fruit, veg, meats, home made yogurt, hard cheeses, and nuts. Very close to a caveman or Paleo diet, check out marksdailyapple.com his diet is pretty close to mine.
 
I eat home made or at Whole Foods for lunch or I don't eat. I usually fix fish for dinner, eggs and bacon for breakfast. By all accounts I should be dead of a heart attack, my family is rife with heart disease. I'm 6'-1" 185#, 51 years old. I've never, ever been on a diet.

I think diets are stupid. Eat what your body tells you to eat. As long as you get regular exercise you'll be in tune with your nutritional needs.

Emotional stress without exercise will make you fat. Mark my words, science will figure it out one day but all you have to do is look at all the potato shaped people working in offices, dealing with artificial deadlines and brow-beating bosses day in, day out.

When you need lots of burnable calories, emphasize carbs, when you're in recovery, emphasize proteins. Eat vegetables and fruits every day. Drink water. Don't eat junk or most pre-packaged foods. Prepare your own meals or if you can't, have someone you trust do it. Whole Foods is awesome because the food is high quality, you can pick and choose and all the fit, earthy women go there to shop.

All that diet research is half baked because that's the nature of research, it's never complete and frequently back tracks on itself. Fads are bad for you and they make you look like an idiot when they're ultimately proven meaningless.

Eating is simple, do what's natural.

If you need to lose weight... EXERCISE... it's the only thing that works long term. Denying yourself regular calories in the climbing business is definitely bad for you.
 
My wife's family goes on those diets and they get cranky and downright miserable. None of them exercise at all. Those diets are made for people who refuse to exercise at all. You hardly see the ones that work with their bodies for a living or who are very active try those diets. If anything they need the carbs or they'll shrink down to nothing. just my thoughts and observations
 
I don't think you can consider something like a paleo diet a fad. These are the foods that have sustained life throughout history. It's what has allowed us to evolve, walk upright, and grow massive brains. I don't understand why people are so eager to believe we can improve on something that has worked so well for thousands of years. (if you knew what paleo meant you might not be so quick to call it a fad)

I can tell you from my own personal experience what you put into your body is what you get out of it. At 25 I was diagnosed with crohn's, celiac, and arthritis. I could sit around on disability for the rest of my life, waste away mentally and physically while I develop serious drug dependencies and nobody could say a word. Instead I chose to adopt a simple dietary lifestyle change and avoid the drug cocktails prescribed by most doctors. So for some people these so called fad diets and half baked research can be just that. For others it's the only way they can enjoy a life most people take for granted.

If you look at the history of what people have eaten over the course of time it's actually the carbs that are the fad. It's no wonder why heart disease and obesity are the two biggest health problems in north america. It's never been about denying yourself necessary calories it's about classifying those calories as useful to your body or not. By the way blinky you've been on a diet your entire life you just don't consider it one.

Just a side note about half baked research. I wonder where we would be without Alex Shigo and all his crackpot theories and half baked research.
 
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Just a side note about half baked research. I wonder where we would be without Alex Shigo and all his crackpot theories and half baked research.

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Very good point.

I think if more people would read about the Paleo diet, they would realize that it's not a fad, like some of the others.
 
Paleo is not a crock at all!! It is essentially a whole fp
food diet! Shop the perimeter of the store and live! Basically the bodies fuel of choice is actually fat first!! Foods like avacodo,nuts,seeds.then small portions of quality lean cuts of Meat, fish, chicken.NO sugar no hi glycemic carbs! Check out www.crossfit.com ! The nutrition section and blog on this site are bangin!! I did this and the nutrition part for a while and was insanly in shape.YOur body will revolt aganst you when you switch it from carb based fuel to fat.you will feeel like you are coming unglued antil about day 17......then you reach nirvana (he he) anyhow ya gotta go strict if youre gonna do it !!!
 
I'd recommend two books:

The Omnivore's Dilemma
and
In Defense of Food

both by Michael Pollan

They changed the way I eat. The message is essentially what Blinky said above. They are worth the time to read - very, very informative and interesting. He's an excellent writer. No diet fads. No products pushed. Just a lot of common sense.

Did I mention that I liked these books?

Did I mention that I've never had more energy, recovered from strains/soreness more quickly, and generally felt better after eating with more common sense? (whole foods, vegetables, fruits, water...lots of oatmeal...)
 
Pollan has some very good points.
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1. Eat only what your grandparents would recognize.
By this he means fresh, homegrown or small farm grown good food, not mega-farm 'produced' and 'manufactured' foods.

2. Eat foods mostly from the outside edges of the grocery store.
He points out that when you walk around most food stores, the fresh fruits, meats, dairy, etcetera are on the outer edge (Except the ones who have read Pollan and are now mixing up where they place things). In the middle aisles you find all the sugared, highly-processed, shelf-stable stuff that most of us never even knew about 50 years ago.
 
I'm not saying paleo is a fad... diets are fads. Just eat good food and exercise... it's just too simple

Shigo's research WAS and IS half baked and were he alive he would be the first to say that. Research HAS to be ongoing, it's never finished. When someone tells you their research is conclusive... don't believe them, it's not.

Research can only DISPROVE... it can never prove anything, only find supporting evidence.

Whatever paleo is, it's a box. I don't like boxes. Humans develop and change and our nutritional needs change accordingly, day to day even. Someone else can't possibly know what your body needs, only you.
 
Michael Pollan is a great author. You should read his book Second Nature. A book that covers many topics relating to the green industry. I like how Michael Pollan deals with america's unhealthy relationship with food. Our culture who is so obsessed with what we eat and how we look has a real identity crisis with our cuisine. The land of plenty.
 
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