Friday, May 12, 2023

Now that's a reversal!

 

It seems Bear Grylls, well-known outdoorsman and adventurer, has had a change of heart - and diet.


Bear Grylls has said he is “embarrassed” by his past support of veganism, and regrets writing a green cookbook in which he criticised meat eaters.

The adventurer, whose diet is now mostly composed of red meat and organs, has claimed he was wrong to think that eating a plant-based diet was good for the environment and his health.

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The television star published a cookbook in 2015 called Fuel for Life, which promoted achieving “maximum health with amazing dairy, wheat and sugar-free recipes”.

He wrote in the book: "To satisfy our insatiable appetite for meat we have developed very unnatural ways of breeding, keeping and killing animals. This far exceeds our nutritional needs for the health of myself and my family."

But the father-of-three has made quite the U-turn since then, and now completely avoids vegetables as part of his “ancestral way of living”.

“For a long time, I’d been eating so many vegetables thinking it was doing me good, but just never felt like it had given me any good nutrients compared to the nutrient density I get from basically blood or bone marrow – red meat,” he said.

“I’ve tried to listen to my body more, tried to listen to nature, and I don’t miss vegetables at all. I don’t go near them and I’ve never felt stronger, my skin’s never been better, and my gut’s never been better.”

. . .

“I’ve found a counterculture way of living, of embracing red meat and organs – natural food just like our millennia of ancestors would have eaten for hundreds of thousands of years.

“And out of all the different things I do for my health, I think that’s probably been the biggest game-changer, in the sense of improving my vitality, wellbeing, strength, skin and gut.”

. . .

“And I find now I’m always full when I’m eating so much meat and eggs and butter and fruit and honey – I’m never hungry. I go out and I’ll order three burgers and get rid of all the buns and the fries and just have the burgers. I don’t crave junk food,” he said.


There's more at the link.

I'm nowhere near as active or adventurous as Bear Grylls, but I can confirm that since I switched to a carnivore diet, my health has definitely improved.  Of course, on my present fasting diet I'm not eating solid food at all for five days of the week - only on weekends - but in general, the more "meaty" my diet, the better I feel for it.  When this prolonged diet is finally over, I intend to follow a carnivore diet as far as possible.  (Of course, today that's an expensive proposition, given the price of meat.  I wonder what the FDA, the CDC and Texas' Animal Health Commission would say if I imported cane rats from Africa and farmed them locally?  They're very easy to raise, and make very good eating!)

I wish more fast food places would offer the option of their regular burgers, etc. minus the buns.  The only one I'm aware of is Carls Jr., which offers lettuce wraps instead of buns with their burgers if you ask for them.  If anyone knows other chains offering that sort of option, please let us know in Comments.

Peter


24 comments:

Xoph said...

Deals to be had on meat, especially if you know a small farmer and work with them to by 1/2 or 1/4 just after processing. You can avoid the corn fattened meat. Grass fed has fat, maybe not as much but to me the meat has more taste. You do get a lot of hamburger.

I definitely feel better the less carbs I eat. Carbs are the Devil's food. Very tasty, Very tempting, and lead to poor health. And we've made sin cheap.

B said...

5 guys will make a n0-bun burger.

Anonymous said...

5 Guys burgers will give you a lettuce wrap

Merlin said...

Peter,

Many years ago, my father used to order a bun-less Whopper at Burger King. They simply used lettuce where the bun should be. I have no idea if they still will do so, but they might.

stencil said...

The Hippopotamus on Van Ness used to offer a Naked Burger... but that was in the middle of the last century.
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Curtis Pew said...

I get Whataburgers without buns all the time.

Mark82 said...

In and Out has both a lettuce wrapped burger and a bunless burger.

nick flandrey said...

In N Out, order it "animal style".
n

Anonymous said...

We've sucessfully ordered burgers w/o the bun at most fast food joints. Be sure to request a fork. As far as sugar goes, check your concordance, sugar doesn't appear in the Bible. Honey, sweet and sweetness are there, but no sugar to be found in Gods word

Anonymous said...

Blah blah blah... wheres the picture of the dog taking a dump that says "downloading celebrity opinions now"?
Who still listens to anyone in the media?

Anonymous said...

They should. It is a popular option for gluten free people (wife has celiac disease)

SiGraybeard said...

With the possible exception of "climate change", there's no bigger pile of junk science than nutrition. Virtually everything the talking heads say about diet is wrong. I've said it until I'm blue in the face, but if we in the engineering world handled data like the guys who started the "low fat" fad handled their studies, we'd be in jail. The researchers both cherry picked the data and accepted money from the sugar industry.

I've read and seen videos from so many people who radically improved their health by going carnivore it's astounding.

Anonymous said...

Almost anywhere will do a burger with no bun; whether they do a lettuce wrap is a different matter. And as mentioned above, it's messy - you may need to ask for a fork and have them serve it in a box.

Arthur said...

Cane Rat:" Like the guinea pig, the meat is of a higher protein but lower fat content than domesticated farm meat"

Are they lean enough to have the same problems as rabbit meat as a staple diet item?

Beans said...

Regarding the pushback against veganism, the Daily Mail had an article listing some of the health issues of veganism and the benefits of animal products.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12040967/Warning-vegans-Diet-meat-eggs-milk-healthier-plant-based-foods-review-finds.html

Which is a big 'Duh' to anyone not brainwashed by the Government Food Pyramid.

As to bun-less food, Arby's will sell their meat without buns if you ask. As Anon at 9:34 said, a restaurant will sell the meat and vegies portion.

MNW said...

The pull quote there is that eating meat is counter culture now.

James said...

The carnivore diet combined with intermittent fasting is the healthiest way to eat. It iis the ancestoral diet going back millions of years. Autophagy brought on by the daily fasting leads to the body renewing itself. This is not some internet BS, the Japanese researcher who did 30 years work on autophagy won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2016. Since there is no way sell a product based on "don't eat for a portion of your day" it isn't popularized.

Peter said...

@Arthur: Given that, in large parts of Africa, cane rat meat forms a big part of the locals' staple diet, I wouldn't think so. It's very tasty meat. I've eaten it often.

RSR said...

You're far enough north in Texas, you could probably produce rabbit meat nearly half a year with feed being mostly free grass clippings... And add chickens for eggs (don't think there's value in meat production in normal times given $5 whole roasted birds at sams/costco).

And find some friends with land and kill a few whitetails -- if you agree to only take does most folks would oblige since Texas whitetail hunting seems to be mostly trophy, not sustenance, and whitetail population desperately needs controlled... Limit is around 5 per person, so you and Mrs can fill your freezer for months on them alone.

Also, can kill wild hogs here year-round. Lots of meat there and folks might even pay you to dispose of them..

Take up your own processing and meat's the cost of one bullet and gas to get there plus freezer space.

And w/ all of DFW's reservoirs, your fishing is plentiful and accessible too, though probably less of a value proposition given transport vs harvest costs.

There's also buy whole/partial animals from farmer/rancher options...

Point being, carnivore needn't be expensive if you're willing to put in sweat equity, especially given so much of this is considered hobby or sport.

lpdbw said...

@nick, you mean "Protein Style". Animal style is a thing, but by default comes with a bun.

@Peter, have you considered Nutria? Louisiana has a problem with them as an invasive spieces, and has tride to convince residents to eat them. They seem similar to your cane rats.

John Brockus said...

Forget paying you to shoot hogs, I'd just like to find someplace that will let me hunt them without charging $1000.

For all the talk about how out of control they are, I haven't been able to find a place to shoot them. Except the "guided" ranches where they charge you processing fees.

Ken Mitchell said...

In-n-Out. Ask for your burger "protein style".

RSR said...

Figure out where hogs are local to you and starting knocking on doors or calling farmers/ranchers close to you and ask for access. Look at Plat maps for large acreage and google satellite views for production...

Or hang fliers advertising service in feed stores of the same. Farmer co-ops/farm bureaus, local grain mills, or extension agents might also be good for leads.

Hogs produce so fast, there's always a need for population control.

Anyone advertising hunting or monetizing hunting access will charge you.

Don't forget to ask if they, church, food bank, animal shelter, etc., want any of the meat...

Anonymous said...

Jay Richards’ “Eat, Fast, Feast” convinced me about the combination of calorie-dense fasting and intermittent fasting (summary available at https://stream.org/tag/fastingbodyandsoul/ ).