Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: That day, we had 18 carbs, or I had 18 carbs. 84 grams of protein, 142 fat. I needed a lot more fat.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Yeah, but it felt like a lot. And we were just going like we were.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: And that's why. How do we bring it up? Is all the fats we didn't close the rings.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: The rings?
[00:00:25] Speaker A: Any of them.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Hey, y'all, put on your boots, grab your headphones, and let's get a little.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Muddy as we build a community rooted in the love of dirt roads. For the dust or mud.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Welcome to the Dust or Mud podcast.
Hi, everybody. Welcome to Episode 15 of the Duster Mud Podcast. I am Shelley McGlamry, and this is my husband, Rich.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: I'm rich.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And we are on a journey right now, and we're talking about our journey through our food, what we eat, why we eat it, and what we do as far as our diet is concerned.
But welcome back. And a brief recap of last week. We discussed how our country got here.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we started it basically, I believe, with Ansel keys and some junk science that led to the generation of government guidelines and food pyramid. And cholesterol is bad and low fat is good. High carbohydrate is good.
We really dove pretty deep into how we got to the standard, what a lot of folks consider the standard American.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Diet or the sad diet, and kind of debunk some myths about how carbs or the lack of carbs have affected us and do affect you across the board. Anyway, check out Episode 14 if you're interested in how we got to where we are with our current eating regimen.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Quite a bit about the research and stuff. We didn't really talk about what we eat. We really talked about how we got to the journey that we took, like you mentioned earlier, the journey that we.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Took to get to and are currently still on. Yeah, I think what we eat is an ever evolving thing and how much we eat of what.
We could talk about it, if you want, with eating with the seasons.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Let'S do that. Okay, let's talk about that.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: So that leads us to today.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Today, this episode, our dietary.
Well, what we eat. Yeah, what do you eat in a day? Whatever. You're a low carb, high fat, moderate protein vor, right.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: Yeah. As we were looking at last week's episode, it looked like, man, this is going to just be too much to talk about all in one episode. And so we had decided, let's segment out what we eat, and we'll talk about that separately. And then one of our friends, after listening to the episode was like, you've got to talk about what you eat. So that really led us to.
Yeah, that's definitely what we'll do this episode. So here we go.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Okay, so we made an initial switch. We did, and we talked about it last week. In 2019, we switched from Standard American diet, what we consider to be relatively healthy, to a ketogenic diet.
And that initial switch, we did a lot of research, but we were quite lost as to what to really do.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah, we look at food labels. We looked at food labels a lot.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: But it was always calories and fat. Right. It really stopped about there.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Right.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: If the calories are low and the fat is low, it must be good for us and we ate it. And if the calories were high and the fat was high, it was probably bad for us and we probably ate it anyway.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: Right.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: So looking at food labels, that wasn't new to us, but I hadn't ever really paid any attention at all to carbs.
And so the concept of a low carb diet.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: We started looking at that. We were talking about the food pyramid. It needed to be turned upside down. How we read food labels was turned upside down. We were looking at things completely in reverse of what we always had.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Opposite of everything that we knew. Yeah.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: The first thing that we did, though, even before we started really looking at food labels, was we downloaded an app onto our iPhones called Carb Manager. C-A-R-B Carb manager. And we went ahead right then and paid for the premium version because it gave recipes and stuff, because we were basically just saying, we've got to have help. This is different.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: We have no idea what we're doing.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: This is different than the way we've ever looked at food. And so we have got to have help if we're going to do this.
We need some help with this. And so we downloaded carb manager and then started a fairly meticulous tracking of what we were eating.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: We did. And I don't like tracking. I don't like calorie counting. I don't like macro counting.
I don't like doing that.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: But because we were so clueless, I.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Felt like I didn't really have a choice because we were so clueless as to honestly how many carbs were in anything.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: And that's not a place that we.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Like to be, ever lives, thank you very much.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Ever clueless.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: No, we do not like to be clueless about anything.
[00:06:42] Speaker A: And so we've really needed help because.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: We started a great app.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: We started the journey saying, we know we want to do it, but we don't know how. And that's very different for us. That's not normally how we do things. We normally research a lot first, and this one we did not. So we got the app and started on the journey, and I actually was.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Going to say you pulled it up.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: I did.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Because you were interested and went way back to February 5.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: I went back to February 5, 2019, and I looked at what we had, or at least what I had, and breakfast was my normal breakfast, so not keto.
I had a Bob Evans English muffin, sausage, egg and cheese, 24 grams of carbs.
And then the lunch was exactly what we had talked about. Our first keto meal I mentioned last week. So lunch was the hamburger, bacon, salad, greens, ranch dressing, cheese, slice and mayo for a total of four carbs in lunch.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: Right.
[00:07:59] Speaker A: And then moved on to dinner. It was broccoli, keto grade on. That was limit. And we were like, limit broccoli. Limit broccoli.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Six carbs in the broccoli and pork chop 8oz. So no carbs in the pork. There were six carbs total in our dinner. So that was day one of keto. Really. It was like two thirds of the day was keto and lunch and dinner was ten carbs. My keto grade avoid breakfast was 24 carbs.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: So on that app, you can set your macros to exactly what you want with whatever meal plan, meal style or diet style or way of eating you want. You could set your macros to anything if you are wanting higher protein or you have control over it. We set ours to a keto diet, and it was, I believe, 5% carbs.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: That's right. 25%.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: 25% protein and 70% fats. We've never eaten like that before. So to have it counting for us was very important. And we set it at a limit of 20 carbs per day.
Day.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: Right.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: And your breakfast was over what we wouldn't eat subsequently, the next day. That day, your breakfast was over what we did for a long.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: So the whole day, I still ate a Jimmy Dean breakfast, but this one was a bacon, ham, and veggie frittata. It had 6 grams of carbs. For lunch, I had a baby bell Gouda cheese, some pork rinds, mayo, avocado, and bold tuna creations. Hot buffalo style by starkist Wow.
I was busy.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: You were busy. But I started making your lunches, and you would take salads and olive oil.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: So that one was 5 grams of carbs. For dinner, we had cooked red bell peppers, heavy cream, butter, and beef steak, the bell peppers had 5 grams of carbs, so 7 grams. What I wanted to point out, and the reason I bring that up is, if you're looking at it, there's a bullseye type thing across the top.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: Oh, right.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: And it sort of fills in the circle as you fill in your macros for the day. So that day we had 18 carbs, or I had 18 carbs. 84 grams of protein, 142 fat. I needed a lot more fat.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah, but it felt like a lot. And we were just going, and that's why.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: How do we bring it up? Is all the fat. We didn't close the rings. The rings, any of them to include the fat.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah. But we were struggling on how do you eat in order to get enough in there?
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Yeah. The next day was eleven carbs. Yeah, 11 grams of carbs, 142 grams of fat.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Meal tracking was really important. It was really important for us, and it really did help us out. One of the things that we noticed pretty early on with this really low carb situation was, first of all, yeah, I was kind of in the dumps for a first couple of days and really needing to up my salts and my electrolyte because you just dump all your fluids out when you stop eating carbohydrates.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Do you remember what, it isn't three to one, is it? Three to one?
[00:12:01] Speaker B: It's 3 grams of water to one carbohydrate.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Your body needs that your body will.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Hold onto, so you just start dumping fluid. That's why you can lose weight, quote, weight really quickly. Whenever you do this type of diet, first couple of weeks, you're going to lose a lot of weight. But it's all water weight. Well, at any rate, once you get over the hump. So that was like, eh, that wasn't fun. But once I got over the hump, I was good. The thing that would happen was we would sit down and we would eat our meal at night, especially because that's when we ate together. And we would sit, we would eat our pork chop and our broccoli and all of our fats and really getting that, we're really kind of dialing it in, but it had been several weeks, and we would be like, getting done with dinner and saying, well, okay, well, we ate, but there's no warm and fuzzy feeling when you get done eating. There's no.
Now I feel better. No, you know, your stomach's full, right, but there's no kick. You don't get the there. That's nice. There's zero brain thing and that was a little disappointing at first, but that's coming off of it, because carbizers aren't a food. So as we came off of it, we got to where we were okay. With a little bit of disappointment.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: It was interesting. And I don't know how many times we said, well, we ate.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: Well, we ate okay, because we're supposed to. I guess we would get hungry, but you just didn't get the feeling.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: But food wise, we transitioned to Whole foods rather quickly.
We missed things. And so I remember us using a website called keto Connect.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Very good website.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: And carbmanage.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Net, I believe it is.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Put it in the show notes.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: I could do that.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Okay.
It'd be helpful.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: We used keto connect and carb manager, and we tried to find things that were similar to us.
[00:14:34] Speaker B: The replacements.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: The replacements. And we replaced foods for quite a while.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: We were making bread with egg whites.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Yeah. We were making muffins.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Muffins with eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.
But we made all kinds of almond flouR.
I did an entire Thanksgiving dinner with substitutes.
Cauliflower, cauliflower. Cauliflower. You can do anything.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: We did a lot of rice. Cauliflower.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Rice, cauliflower. Mashed cauliflower.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: We did zucchini noodles.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: Lot of.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: A lot of zoodles.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Yes, we did. We haven't eaten a zoodle.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: No.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: A long time.
No pasta.
So it replaces the pasta really well.
So anyway, we did a lot of replacements at first. We really did things in our meals that reminded us of the other food, and it filled the void.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: A lot of desserts. We like desserts.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And trying to get the fats up, like we had mentioned, we made the fat bombs that had a lot of coconut oil in them.
[00:16:00] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:16:01] Speaker A: Really?
That mindset, transition of, well, yeah, we'll eat the broccoli, but it's basically just so that we're not eating butter on a spoon. Right. We're eating butter some other way.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Right. It was a vehicle for the oil. The big salads would be a vehicle for the oil.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: For the olive oil.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: Yeah. To get our fats up.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: Yeah. And we really were olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, butter.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: And we did a lot of the MCT oil at that time, too. We were doing keto coffee in the mornings to help get our fats up and get the MCT oil for our brain. Get our ketones up. We wanted them up.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Okay. So in the middle of that, we were really liking it. It was working great. We had figured it out. We were substituting less. We weren't making quite as many weird recipes, trying to make up other food, make foods that we don't eat anymore.
Anyway, we were diving in a little bit further and heard about this carnivore thing. And Saladino, I think, was his name, reading his book, listening more YouTube, and I had seen a Dr. Georgia Eads. She was promoting a more carnivore diet for people with mental health struggles. And I was just kind of really curious and said, were we maybe like a year into, I said, you know, I really kind of want to try this. I want to do an experiment and see how it affects us, our bodies, across the board, and see if it's something that we might want to recommend to Rebecca.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: Right. And Rebecca was episode twelve, I think.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Is when she was chatting about some of her mental health struggles after a traumatic brain injury.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Right.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: And so we were willing to do whatever it took, really, to help her and thought, well, man, we're already Keto. So a transition from a ketogenic diet to a carnivore diet from what we had read was not that big of a deal. And for us, it didn't seem like that big of a deal.
So we were like, yeah, let's do it.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: And to go from Keto to Carnivore was really easy. We were already super low carb. So to go from super low carb to no carb was nothing.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: I do remember, though, driving back and forth to work, listening to different podcasts, and hearing people talk about that they were carnivore and thinking how weird that was.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: It's so exclusive. It's so limiting.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: That one, like, keto. Ketogenic, I didn't have really a whole lot of mental hang up with that because I didn't know a lot about it. But Carnivore just even the word sounded extreme to me. And so listening to people talk about being carnivore, that one seemed extreme. And so as we made that decision to do it, it was a decision to go, at least in my mind, to the extreme.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: Yeah, we were going extreme, and we did. For 14 months, we were extreme. And we ate nothing but animal products.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah, but like what? Okay.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: So for breakfast, I believe that time we either had nothing or we had a keto coffee.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of keto. Yes, keto coffee.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: We would have coffee with ghee, I believe, is what we would put in it. And some brain octane. Brain octane MCT Oil and some collagen powder, I believe was what we would use for our keto, coffee.
[00:20:31] Speaker B: And that was breakfast.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: That was our breakfast.
Lunch would be a meat of some.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Type, probably like a pound of ground.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Beef, fats and all, and some cheese, probably, or like when I would going to work, you or I would cut up whatever meat we had the night before and throw it in a container so I didn't have to try to cut it while I was working.
Typically, I was meeting with somebody while I was trying to eat lunch. And so just being able to use a fork made it easier. So a meat of some sort, probably with butter on top of it and a block of cheese cut up was probably lunch. And then the evening meal would be another meat of some sort, probably butter on it and some cheese.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: But it wasn't just like a piece of steak or we cooked foods. We would think, let's get in ahead.
We ate a lot of meat. We ate a lot of dairy during that time, or some, sorry, some dairy and still had plenty of fats.
Let's talk about menu specifics in just a second.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: So let me back up just a second. Georgia eads, she's a psychiatrist. She does have a website.
She's got some really cool stuff out there with studies that they've done with people with mental health, just mild depression and what changing your diet can do and how it can affect it. Really neat stuff. Check it out.
I'll give you the information so that you can put it.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be good.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: So let's talk about specifically day to day, what we eat.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: Today, now, in our life on a farm with a lot of food.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: And we farm so that we have this food.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: We do. And it's a lot of work. So we're busy a lot outside a lot. The weather sort of dictates if we have to come inside. I mean, obviously we do things outside, even in the bad weather, but it's limited. So today, so far, we had four duck eggs with scrambled in butter, but our butter, so homemade butter from our cows, four duck eggs for lunch, a small bowl of farm cheese and put olive oil on top of it with some tahin seasoning. I had pickles with mine and then.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: Home crone made pickles.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Yeah. I had a bag of pork rinds with that.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: You didn't.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: I did not.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: And for supper, we're having a podcast.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: So far, we'll eat something. We don't know what yet. Okay. But that's not typical. That was a busy day.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Typically we will have a bowl of yogurt spiced with some cinnamon and some.
We don't use sugar, so we really like the splenda brand. Stevia sweetener.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: Liquid sweetener.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Liquid sweetener. Squirt. I'm going to squirt it in stuff, sweeten it some. So it's some sweet with some cinnamon. I'll add a little MCT oil, coconut oil, just to bump it up on the fats. And then maybe some salt, because our diet doesn't. Across the board. Well, whenever you eat low carb and you eat like this, you tend not to get enough salt. So we do add salt. And I was using the Himalayan salt for a long time and then kind of realized, wait a minute, I don't think we're getting enough iodine. So let's add iodine, salt, and I do that in our yogurt. And then a little bit of vanilla and a little bit of vanilla with a glass of milk. Raw milk, whole cream and all milk.
For lunch, we'll have a salad, typically with veg.
Sometimes we'll put some meat in there. Chicken will typically be a meat. Big salad, y'all. Big bowl.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't think a little.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: No, we're not eating, like some little side salad. We're eating a bowl. Big bowl of, like, four big clumps of lettuce.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Handfuls.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Handfuls with tomatoes and maybe some pickles. Cheese for sure. Maybe some meat. Spices. Sometimes we make it Italiany, a salad. Olive oil and apple cider vinegar for the dressing.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: And it's not just a little bit of olive oil.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: No, it's probably close to a quarter of a cup.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a lot of olive oil.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: It's a lot. It's a vehicle for the olive oil.
For dinner, it's a meat and a veg, or we call it a skillet. We'll brown some meat. Let's just say a couple of pounds of ground beef, brown it up, make it flavorful.
Then sometimes we'll put cheese on top of that, crack, a couple of eggs on top of it, and make just a protein. Flavorful protein.
I don't know.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: Fairly high fat, fairly high fat, and fairly low carb.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: Yeah, real low carb.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: Skillet.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah, a skillet meal. It's our version of Hamburger helper.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: Right.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Add cheese and egg and whatever flavoring that we want.
That's our typical day. Oh, and we do like sweet things. So we make desserts. We like to make cheesecake, but we use splenda or not splenda. We use stevia to sweeten it.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Swerve.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Swerve.
[00:27:11] Speaker A: Powdered confectioner. Sugar swerve, and we don't put a crust on it.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: Right.
We like homemade ice cream.
We ate rebel ice cream. It's a great brand of ice cream that is low carb. They use stevia to sweeten.
[00:27:31] Speaker A: Yeah. In our ice cream, we use a powdered swerve as well.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: There are now options for boxed brownies and cake mixes and such that you can find along with icings that they're sweetening. They're making things with just different ingredients that we do eat occasionally we like to eat pancakes and waffles. We don't really do pancakes so much, but we do waffles. They're called chaffles. I think it's a dumb name, but it's made with cheese. So that's why it's a chuffle.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: Yeah. It's eggs and mozzarella cheese and a little bit of almond flour and then some type of sweetener, sugar replacement, whatever sweetener of choice, or you don't have to.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: So we make waffles like that, and that'll be our big Sunday breakfast with bacon or sausage or whatever.
But you could take those and you can make them savory. So you could take that same truffle recipe, put some cumin in it, and Mexican that thing up, put you some Mexican meat on top of it or salad. You got you a gordito.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: When we do that, I like to replace the motts with some cheddar.
[00:28:48] Speaker B: Some cheddar.
[00:28:49] Speaker A: It adds a.
[00:28:50] Speaker B: Completely changes the flavor. And there are a lot on the Internet. Look up chuffle recipes. Keto probably on keto Connect, I can't remember. But at any rate, there are a lot of truffle recipes with a myriad of different ways that you can make bread like things. Yeah, we still eat those.
[00:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I enjoy that. We've used those for bread for breakfast sandwiches.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: We've used those as a bread for, like, a beef sandwich.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Like the Italian beef.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Because they're crispy. They hold together really well.
Like a bread or a bun.
Because the keto bread that, the recipes that are out there, that just doesn't hold together to make, like a sandwich. I haven't really had a sandwich in a long time, but if I was going to, it would be Jersey Mike's, y'all.
Okay. So that's pretty much what we eat in a typical day. One of the things that is really hard when you eat like this is traveling.
That's when you realize what food is available to people.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: When we're home, it doesn't feel weird.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: No.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: When we're traveling, it feels weird.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
Go into, say, when we're on the road, go into a pilot.
[00:30:23] Speaker A: Any convenience.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Store or any convenience store. Well, but they have food or flying J go into a truck stop type place that you're looking for a few things while you're there and go ahead and try to find something to eat.
It is hard these days. They do have sandwiches, so you can get little packages of cheese and meat. That's helpful. They're expensive, but they do have some important pork rinse.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Yeah. So for me, when I was working and would go temporary duty, tdy bulletproof coffee makes a packet that allows you to, you just dump it into your coffee and it has ghee and powdered MCT oil and collagen powder already in one little packet. So I would take those, and that would be my breakfast. For lunch, I would normally be able to find a salad somewhere. And then for dinner, I would try to find a steak restaurant. I always wanted folks to go like, let's go eat steak. And I would have steak and broccoli with butter on top.
Most restaurants you can find a meat that doesn't have a bunch of other stuff with it.
Like, I would not get casserole type meals.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: No.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: I would try to go as whole food as I can't as I could and stick with a meat and some type of vegetable.
By that point, I had a pretty good idea of how many carbs were in what vegetable. So try to avoid the carrot and sweet potato and go more for the broccoli or cauliflower type veggies. And that would be travel.
I would pack cheese.
I made quite a bit of beef jerky at the time, and so I would pack myself beef jerky and cheese that I would take with me, and that would be on the airplane or in the airport type snacks.
I think that's about it. As far as traveling goes. I would, I would take the little squirt stevia.
[00:32:55] Speaker B: If a person liked boiled eggs, that would work. You don't really like.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: I don't love them.
I would do Decaf coffee and some squirt stevia would be my sweet. At the end of the day, when you're traveling. Yeah.
[00:33:10] Speaker B: That was another thing to do when you're traveling, is fast.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: Don't eat. But any of the fast food restaurants, even if that's your only option, you can get at things with no bun these days.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: I remember I was traveling with another guy and we were driving to, we'll just say a meeting, and we stopped at Burger King because that was all that there was. And he was very much taken aback by the fact that I ordered two bacon double cheeseburgers with no bun and then went to.
They were King Burgers. That's right. Not bacon double cheeseburgers. They were two King Bacon King Burgers, no bun, and consumed the whole thing. He was like that skinny guy.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. Yeah, that's what he said.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Except he didn't say guy.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: No, he didn't.
Yeah. So you can go into any fast food restaurant these days and find.
Yeah, it is what it is, but you can find something to eat.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not the best, but get.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: Meats, get the bacon burger with no bun. Don't eat the fries. Get a couple of them. And that's what we do.
[00:34:41] Speaker A: And so for a lifestyle, we talked about how low carb we went at the very beginning of things, and we were trying to stay, I think 27 is what mine said, but basically, we were trying to stay somewhere less than 30 carbs, somewhere in the 20 carb grams of carbs per day range.
Dr. Colbert, in the ketozone Diet book we've mentioned before on the podcast, he talks about a daily keto carb limit.
And you can find it scientifically by testing your ketone levels, as you can increase your carbs slowly, and as your body stops producing ketones, you know, okay, that's my limit. And then go back down on your carbs from that. And that's for folks that want to say, I really want to introduce carbs.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Back into this is after you've been on a strict ketogenic diet for about six months.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Okay, so that's where I was going, was at about the six month point you have now trained your body to prefer ketones as a fuel. And once you've gotten your body trained there, you can start to add carbohydrates back in and find your keto carb limit. And then if you're wanting more carbs in your life, you can go up, like I said, increase up to that limit and then back down somewhere around.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: People can typically pretty well around 70.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: Yeah, he talks about it. The range for most people is in that 50 to 70 carb range. Some people he mentions can be up to 100, and others, if they get anything above 20, their body stops producing ketones. So really, it varies person to person. But once your body is trained to burn the ketones, then even if you do add a few more carbs, your body will go back to burning ketones again. So it can become an actual lifestyle and not something.
I'm on a two week fad diet type of thing. It can become a lifestyle, and it.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Has become a lifestyle for us. And the place where we are now is in that lifestyle, that way of living.
We eat whole food.
That's pretty much. And I used to tell the kids that when they were younger, still living at home, and they would be health conscious and be wanting to make good dietary nutrition decisions, and I would just tell them, look, if it is what it always was, eat it. Eat it.
Even if it a rice. Rice is what it was. Yes, it's been a little bit processed, but it is what it always was.
Whatever it is, if it's whole food, eat it.
That's close to where we are now. We don't eat white potatoes. We don't eat a lot of starchy things. We don't eat corn and such. But for the most part, our way of eating at this point is, if it is what it always was, it's okay.
[00:38:17] Speaker A: Well, five years in, we have a pretty good feel for the amount of fat that we need to eat in a day, the amount of protein that we need to eat in a day. So we haven't used the carb manager app in a couple of years.
[00:38:32] Speaker B: Right.
[00:38:33] Speaker A: We really got away from, as you said, you really don't like tracking the macros. And so once we got a real good handle on what foods had what in them, and then with our body, how we feel when we're in ketosis, it's fairly easy. Now, I think, for us to eat what we need to eat, we don't have to just do the. Like, we haven't had five years of macro tracking through carb manager. Oh, no, we did that, the strict tracking, for about three months, if I remember correctly. I'd have to go look through the app.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: But it was about that three to.
[00:39:15] Speaker A: Four months of fairly strict tracking. And then at that point.
[00:39:18] Speaker B: Okay, we got it.
[00:39:19] Speaker A: We would use the app to look up a recipe or a food that we didn't eat a lot.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Right.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: Hey, what about this?
[00:39:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it has all kinds of foods in there.
[00:39:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
So we mentioned that we went Carnivore as sort of a test to see if it would maybe help Rebecca as far as mental health goes. But we didn't talk about really anything that we found.
Like, what did we find when we went Carnivore?
[00:39:52] Speaker B: Well, first of all, it was doable.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: We thought, oh, that's going to be really extreme. And it was at first, and then it just became.
We must have liked it well enough because we did it for over a year.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah, we did. We enjoyed it.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: It was going Keto and that felt good. And then for me personally, going carnivore was like, next level.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: The way I felt.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: Yeah, me too.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: I felt my brain was next level clear.
Just my mental acuity, my energy, my body was.
It really liked it. It responded really well. I felt strong and healthy. I don't know any other way to explain it. Yeah.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: And let's talk about mood.
Mental focus, clarity, mood.
Some of the things that you can measure, a gram of carbohydrate, but you can't really measure mood. So some of those types of things. What did you.
[00:41:15] Speaker B: Well, for me, I did feel more stable because as a late forty s at the time, female, I should have been pretty much a hot mess.
You should. At that point. You're either in menopause or you're going into menopause, or it's just wacky in your head or you should be the little bit of cray cray happening. And we're given that because you're going to be in your 40s as a female. Hot flashes, all the things that go on then.
I'm not saying I was always in a perfect mood or am, but I don't really suffer from that.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: So without aspect of it, like scientific evidence, it would be.
[00:42:11] Speaker B: It's anecdotal, probably.
[00:42:14] Speaker A: Your hormones stay fairly balanced without any kind of spikes.
[00:42:20] Speaker B: Yeah, and I'm not on any kind. I'm 50 now. And on no hormone help at all. No spikes? No. I'm pretty even kill. So I would say that it helps to maintain hormonal balance for me.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So mood for me as well, I found much more stable in the mood department. And I wouldn't say that I was in a good mood. It's not that it's just stable. Like, there's no real ups or downs in mood. It's just sort of right here.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Well, for one, you don't get hangry.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: No.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Either one of us, we get hungry and we can get moody a little bit. But not the hangry that you suffer from whenever you're carb dependent.
[00:43:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. So then, as we were into it, then we thought, yes, this is doable. Because first thing was, is this even doable, or are the people that are doing this just crazy?
Not saying we're not crazy. Maybe we are.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: No, we totally are, dude.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: But it was doable, though.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: Yeah, very doable and very doable.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: We were healthy and felt great, and it didn't cause us to all of a sudden go crazy.
And so, if I remember correctly, we did recommend it to Rebecca.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Yes, we did. Yes.
You should try this.
And I don't think she did at that time, but then by the time she moved out here, it was pretty close to that, and it has served her really well.
[00:44:14] Speaker A: The reason that we did it didn't end up really working out, but for us, it did work out, right?
[00:44:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yes.
It was a great experiment. Yeah, I thought so, too.
Well, I think I'm headed back into a carnivore phase.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: And you mentioned it earlier that we're probably going to. Now that the farm is basically established, I see us moving into what is available from the farm is probably what we're going to eat.
[00:44:48] Speaker B: Right.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: And so we have some of the vegetables from the garden that are preserved. I could see us eating those. And when they're gone, I could see us not. And transitioning to more of. Well, we're producing meat now. We can produce meat through the winter. We dO. And we have meat in the freezer, and that will probably be what we eat. And then when the spring comes around and start getting stuff from the garden and.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: Okay, maybe that's the way we're supposed to eat.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:23] Speaker B: With the seasons.
What?
[00:45:26] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely.
[00:45:28] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
There's a lot of people that are talking about that.
Even the people that aren't pushing really ketogenic or carnivore or anything like that. It's eat things in seasons.
In the fall is a harvest. There are fruits, there are nuts. Eat it.
Historically, you would put on a little weight that would serve you well through the winter.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: Right.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: By the time springtime rolls around, you'd probably lost the weight.
There's some historical precedent to what you're saying. Absolutely.
[00:46:03] Speaker B: So I see us headed in that kind of direction.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:10] Speaker B: We do like to eat desserts.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: We do.
Yeah. And we talked about that a little bit.
A lot of times right now will have a bowl of yogurt for dessert and maybe spice it slightly differently than what we have for breakfast. So instead of cinnamon, maybe we'll have nutmeg or if we pumpkin pie spice or something.
[00:46:38] Speaker B: Or if we've had eggs for breakfast, we can have yogurt at night.
[00:46:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:42] Speaker B: That kind of thing. But there are a lot of low carb recipes. Again, go back to keto connect recipes.
Yeah. There's a couple that they have really devoted a lot of time and energy and effort, and, man, they have come up with so many really great recipes for sweet stuff.
Other things, too. But the sweet stuff, that's where it's at because that's the thing that we crave whenever we're trying to change the way we eat. Yeah, we don't want to change a steak.
Steak is a steak.
[00:47:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
We haven't talked about snacks, and I think the reason is because we don't eat snacks.
[00:47:35] Speaker B: We don't eat snacks.
We don't eat snacks?
Not really, no.
We'll have some pork rinds as our chips with dips or something. We do like to, but the standard.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: American diet has three main meals and at least two snacks.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No snacking.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: That's like, part of the diet. It's part of what supposed to do. You eat breakfast, you eat a snack. You eat lunch, you eat a snack. We talked about that last week.
[00:48:07] Speaker B: Yeah, but fear not, if you have eaten four duck eggs and some butter at eight or seven or nine or whatever time you eat your breakfast, you don't really want to eat a snack.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: There's no need for a snack.
[00:48:25] Speaker B: There's not. If you have filled your tank with good stuff that's going to carry you through.
Michaela, she started eating eggs with us in the mornings, and she's a kid. She likes a snack. She doesn't even snack.
[00:48:40] Speaker A: No.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: Oh, did you have a snack? Oh, no, I'm good. That's what I'm talking about. Eat something that's going to stay with you.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: And fat does a really good job.
[00:48:50] Speaker B: Yes, it does. It does a very good job of that.
[00:48:52] Speaker A: It makes you feel full and then you stay that way.
[00:48:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: And so especially, like, as you're transitioning into a ketogenic diet, that is one of the things that we noticed was, wow, I'm not hungry.
[00:49:08] Speaker B: Yeah, they're really not.
[00:49:11] Speaker A: And so snacks just sort of went away.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: I haven't eaten very much at all today. No, but we ate those eggs this morning, and it has just, I'm like, I'm good. Probably go eat here in a little bit. But they've really held all day. All day.
But what if you don't live on a farm?
We live on a farm. All of our food is, like, right here. And that's why we live on a farm. One of our kids said, hey, make sure you talk about why you have a farm. Well, we kind of have in other episodes, but the reason that we have this farm is because we were buying really expensive meats and foods, and we thought, man, this is really expensive and it's really, really good. And we like it. And so, hey, won't we go do it ourselves? We could just grow this really good food ourselves and just jumped into it. Yeah, let's just go do it.
[00:50:09] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: It's that much of a priority for us. So we do have the farm. We do raise our own meat, but not everybody does that.
For me, we've all heard it so many times, it's the outside of the grocery aisle, or it's the outside aisles of the grocery store. Anything in that outside aisle Is what it always was. You got your veg, you got your meat, you got dairy all the way around. Just stay out of the jungle. Stay out of the middle of the grocery store. And you will. Except for the oils, I think they're in the middle.
[00:50:44] Speaker A: Yeah, they are.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: They should move those city outside.
It's the outside aisles. If you eat only in the outside aisles, you'll be pretty good.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: Yeah. And most people can find a local farmer.
[00:50:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:50:58] Speaker A: Farmers markets are a lot more popular these days. They are. There's farmers markets around in a lot of places.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:51:08] Speaker A: Buying meat from somebody out of the back end of their pickup truck is becoming more popular these days.
[00:51:14] Speaker B: I hear it's in vogue.
[00:51:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
Again, one of those things that we thought, okay, but people, like, we show up with our products, and people are happy to get them excited.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:51:30] Speaker A: So I think, yeah. The outside aisles of the store and local producers really are probably the ticket.
[00:51:40] Speaker B: Absolutely.
You're right.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:44] Speaker B: So speaking of farm, your farm update, man.
[00:51:49] Speaker A: The farm update this week, it feels like everybody is on the move.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: We are. We have done some farming. We have done some farming, y'all.
[00:51:59] Speaker A: The cold that we mentioned last week that put an end to the garden.
[00:52:05] Speaker B: Garden is done.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: So the garden is done. And whenever our garden is done, that means it's time for the chickens to move in. So we wrap our garden with a poultry net year round anyway, because we want to keep all of the animals out of it. So we have an electrified poultry net around the garden. And so it was a matter of we rolled the chick shaws out of the net that they were in and rolled them into the garden and let the chickens out. And so now the chickens, those are some happy chickens. And they're finding all kinds of things in the garden, so they're loving that. We moved the ducks into the pumpkin patch.
The garden and the pumpkin patch had grown up with a lot of grass, and so having the birds in there is really helpful. The ducks, they've probably increased almost 50%. The amount of eggs that we're getting, the ducks have instead. Normally when we move the ducks, they stop laying for a couple of weeks. And this time they were so happy, they just started laying more.
[00:53:11] Speaker B: So you might be asking yourself why we would move our birds and such into our garden areas. The reason twofold. One, they can eat all of the things that are in there, and that's less food that we have to feed them. And it just does them very good.
Number two, they scratch, they peck, they poop. They are turning and fertilizing and making that soil even better just by being in there. And it's right outside of our front door. And we absolutely love when the chickens are in the garden. It's so fun. It's fun to watch them.
[00:53:48] Speaker A: For one thing, it makes it really easy to just toss them some scraps.
[00:53:52] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:53:53] Speaker A: The kitchen scraps go to the birds and then you're right, they do a great job. We have a lot of rows in the garden, and within a couple of months, they'll be just flat.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: It will be. I can see it already. And they've only been in there just for a couple of days. The lambs got moved. They're on new ground.
[00:54:15] Speaker A: The use, yeah, we put the rams in with the use and moved all.
[00:54:21] Speaker B: Of them down to a new spot, the cows. We fed them some hay for a few days, let the grass kind of catch up so we could make another round with them. And they're on the move again.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll definitely get one more round of grazing through the farm.
The grass is growing really slow right now, so I don't think it's not looking like we'll get two rounds. So it's probably one more round and then probably to their winter pasture and start the hay.
[00:54:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I hope we can make it to December the first. We'll see.
[00:54:58] Speaker A: It'd be nice.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Last year, we were feeding hay early November, like, full up. We were done because of the drought.
The drop site is working well.
The orders are coming in and people are meeting us in town with what they need. So in lieu of the farmers market in town, we are offering people to. We will meet you in town with your order. You can call, text, or go on the website and make an order. You won't pay for it there. You'll pay for it in town whenever you meet us. And if you have any other questions about that, please feel free to contact us.
[00:55:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it's working well.
[00:55:39] Speaker B: It is.
You got a Did you know?
[00:55:42] Speaker A: I do have a. Did you know?
And this one came from Bill, our new friend Bill.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: Thank you, Bill.
[00:55:51] Speaker A: Thank you, Bill. It's an essay by raw Egg nationalist, and it was a really good essay. It's quite long.
The whole thing is basically how highly processed foods are. Setting our children up to fail is the premise of the article.
I'll just go through some main points of that article and then some information. As I continued to dig that, I found so main points on that article. They called out, British toddlers. So, ages two to five have the worst diet in the world. As far as the toddler diet, they consume the highest rate of processed food. Almost two thirds of their average daily caloric intake is from processed food. US toddlers, not much better. They are at 58%. So 58% of calories for us toddlers are coming from processed foods. That might lead you to ask, well, what is a processed food? So, in this essay, the definition that he uses is foods prepared in a factory, wrapped in plastic, and contain ingredients that you wouldn't find in a normal home kitchen, such as emulsifiers, stabilizers, humectrients, preservatives. So those types of things, if you wouldn't find those in a normal kitchen, then you can rest assured it is processed food. Studies show we eat processed foods 30% faster than normal food because they're so easy to eat. You don't even really have to chew them. And they are engineered by scientists to be extremely satisfying to us, and so it allows us to eat them much faster, which means that our normal bodily processes that tell us that we're full don't have time to work, register to register, and so you end up eating more. They are foods of convenience, and they are most convenient for manufacturers because they are cheap and easy to manufacture, and they last a long time.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: Yeah, long shelf life from those things they put out.
[00:58:14] Speaker A: Yeah. There was some discussion about how similar food items are based on their ingredients. So the main differences between donuts, breads and Cheerios are really the quantities of hydrogenated oil and sugar, and then the same thing with ramen noodles, et cetera. So those types of processed foods, it's really a matter of the ratios of the hydrogenated oils and sugar that lead you to a different product, not necessarily that it's anything really different from an ingredient perspective. And then he goes into discussion of corn and the fact that it's subsidized. Since World War I, taxpayers are supporting mega companies that control corn production. Corn is a major ingredient in a lot of these process.
And it's not just the corn syrup, it's all kinds of different products from corn. So that led me to a little bit deeper study. And I found a 2021 study published by the National Institute of Health NIH.
One of the data points that they quoted in their study is the US food supply is dominated by packaged food and beverages. And that contributes around 75% of daily calorie intake for US population is packaged food.
[00:59:43] Speaker B: 75. 75.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: The study that they did, it was down. The people that they studied, this study that I was looking at, the people that they studied, they found that it was somewhere around 50%, but they were quoting a different study that found 75%.
[01:00:04] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:00:06] Speaker A: They quoted another study that found that over 70% of daily calorie intake and over 90% of total sugar intake in children and adolescents are from junk foods or processed foods. A 2022 NIH study, National Institute of Health study found that the consumption of ultra processed foods increased among all US adults over a 15 year period from 2002 to 17, from 53% to 57%. So there's about a 4% increase in the consumption of ultra processed foods.
The food that went up the most was ready to eat or heat and eat meals like frozen dinners. That's the one that increased the most. Whole food consumption decreased from I had to 33% to about 27%. And that was mainly due to people eating less meat and dairy.
We talked about the campaigns against. The campaigns against meat, specifically. Notably. And one of the things that I found the worst, I would say notably older adults aged 60 plus experienced the sharpest increase in consuming ultraprocessed foods. This age group ate the least ultraprocessed foods and most whole foods at the beginning of the period studied. And this was 2001 to 2017. So we're not like talking about the 50s, right? So they ate the most whole foods at the beginning of the period, yet ate the most ultra processed foods and the least whole foods at the end of the period.
So in a 15 year period, there people, older adults aged 60 plus, they swapped from eating most whole, least ultra processed to most ultra processed, least whole.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:02:28] Speaker A: And that's across the age groups.
[01:02:30] Speaker B: Wow.
Why with that category, I wonder why?
[01:02:40] Speaker A: I don't know.
[01:02:42] Speaker B: That's. That's like our young and our old. That's not old.
[01:02:56] Speaker A: No. But the population extremes, the age population is where it seems to be hitting the hardest.
[01:03:06] Speaker B: The hardest.
[01:03:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
And it probably goes back to what we said there was, that they're foods of convenience.
[01:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:17] Speaker A: Heat, neat.
Probably looking for a more convenient meal. I don't want to cook anymore or I'm now alone and I don't want to cook for myself.
[01:03:30] Speaker B: I don't want to cook for just.
[01:03:31] Speaker A: One person or even just two people.
It's easier just to throw something in the microwave.
[01:03:37] Speaker B: Well, yeah, well, that category went up too. The microwavable meals went up.
So with the fact that there's more on the market, there's more options on the market.
We're not talking about just regular hungry man TV dinners. We're talking about meals frozen, ready to eat, heat and eat. Why would I cook, why would I go get a potato and some onions and all those ingredients when I can just do that instead?
[01:04:11] Speaker A: Yeah. And so why do we care about processed foods or ultra processed foods?
It is linked to obesity, weight gain, diabetes, heart disease. Like, there are a lot of studies, lots of studies.
I was doing a little bit of research.
[01:04:32] Speaker B: You were saying, we're emulsifiers, okay? We're going to thicken it.
Humido. I don't know all the words that you said. I know the preservatives and such that are in the foods. The ultra processed foods.
[01:04:50] Speaker A: Humectants are humectants maintain moisture.
[01:04:54] Speaker B: So those little things that they put into the pill bottles, that's to maintain your moisture level. And on it it says, do not eat.
[01:05:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not food. Yeah, they're not putting that in the food.
[01:05:14] Speaker B: Okay. But it's something similar.
[01:05:17] Speaker A: Something similar, yeah. So there's definitely a correlation to increased processed food intake with increased diabetes, obesity, weight, metabolic heart disease. Metabolic disease.
It is known. And it's not just correlation.
[01:05:37] Speaker B: Any of them cause synogens?
[01:05:38] Speaker A: Yes, sure is.
And so then you go from processed to ultra processed.
Even cheese is processed. You're ultra processed now you're getting into frozen pizzas, those types of things.
Doritos.
That's your ultra processed. Like ultra processed foods.
[01:06:04] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:06:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And there's definite causation studies.
[01:06:09] Speaker B: And I have to just say there's a whole lot of difference between eating it occasionally, having some. Of course, we don't eat it very much, whatever, but there's a difference between having the thing occasionally and that being 75% of your caloric intake. There's a vast difference between, hey, every now and then we would have a little Debbie cake or something when we were growing up, occasionally, but we ate real food like the rest of the time. There's such a difference in its volume, too.
[01:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, a different study said that the average serving of junk food was five.
If you go across age groups and across gender and everything, the average was about five servings of junk food.
[01:07:11] Speaker B: A day. A day.
[01:07:13] Speaker A: A day.
[01:07:14] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[01:07:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:16] Speaker B: Wow. Okay, well, that's a problem.
[01:07:19] Speaker A: Yes. Some were 4.7 and some were 5.5.
[01:07:23] Speaker B: Servings of junk food a day.
[01:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:27] Speaker B: Wow. Of course, servings are little, teensy, tiny things that nobody eats anyways.
[01:07:32] Speaker A: Well, it's a bag of chips, it's a candy bar.
All of the snacks that we're supposed to be eating, the convenience snack, is processed, or most likely ultra processed to.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: Include the ones that say that they're healthy and they're not.
The granola bars, those are ultra processed as well. Wow.
[01:08:01] Speaker A: Back to the essay. His point was, in the name of convenience, and as a result of all of the science that has gone into making the foods extremely hyper palatable, so that you not only eat it, you want to eat more of it, you eat it faster.
All of that is what we're giving to our children.
And then now the idea that children will grow up eating what they ate when they were younger, and so the toddlers that are now consuming between half and two thirds of their calories, being this ultra processed food, they will continue to eat that as they grow up. And so the point of the essay was, we're sabotaging our children.
[01:09:00] Speaker B: Wow. Yes, we are.
First of all, they're not going to know how to cook. And second of all, they're going to be addicted to this stuff already are by age five. Wow.
[01:09:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They absolutely are.
[01:09:21] Speaker B: So my only recommendation back to what I told the kids, my main recommendation to people with what they eat is, if it is what it always was, eat it.
Yes. We do things. We don't eat a lot of fruit. We don't eat it. But if it is what it was and it's whole and not ultra processed, turned into whatever.
[01:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
In the essay, just real food, people referred to it as normal.
Normal food.
[01:09:55] Speaker B: Oh, eat normal food.
[01:09:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just normal. He didn't say real or whole or anything. It was just normal.
[01:10:03] Speaker B: But let's define it.
[01:10:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:10:06] Speaker B: No, you're right, man.
[01:10:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:10:10] Speaker B: And it doesn't always have to be salad. No, but just normal, real food. Real.
[01:10:17] Speaker A: Yeah. The recommendations on one of the studies, NYU study was revise dietary guidelines, make marketing restrictions like they did with cigarettes, say package labeling changes, potentially even add taxes to soda or other ultra processed foods. And I believe we talked about that once already. So, another thing, those are all sort of on the negative side of things. If you want to focus more on the positive side of things, it would be increase the availability, the accessibility, the affordability. Of Whole Foods. If you're going to subsidize something, maybe don't subsidize the corn, maybe subsidize something different.
[01:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree.
[01:11:11] Speaker A: That's some potential.
[01:11:12] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:11:13] Speaker A: How could we make things better?
[01:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah. How about automatically don't make it so hard for people to accept EBT so that farmers markets more farmers markets can. And farmers themselves.
[01:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah, true.
[01:11:29] Speaker B: That would be a great start. It would be so that it would be more accessible to everyone.
[01:11:34] Speaker A: Yeah, true.
Very true.
[01:11:38] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:11:39] Speaker A: Did you.
[01:11:40] Speaker B: No, I did not. Thank you.
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[01:12:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And in the description last week, I added a lot of different resources. We said we would. And I actually did add those. So you can check that out. Last week's episode in the description of a lot of resources.
[01:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
And we continue to educate ourselves, buy new books, watch things.
It's ever changing. And there are more and more people getting out there into that space and putting good, sound information out there.
[01:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:55] Speaker B: Glucose goddess.
Well, it's the glucose revolution. I don't remember her name, but the book is called the Glucose Revolution.
[01:13:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:13:05] Speaker B: And it is good.
[01:13:06] Speaker A: We'll have to maybe talk about it one day.
[01:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Maybe we'll have her on the podcast.
[01:13:15] Speaker A: That's funny.
[01:13:16] Speaker B: It was funny.
Okay, well, until next time. Bye, y'all. Bye.
