The Problem with the Standard American Diet

You're gonna need fat. If you don't, you're gonna get fatigued. It'll start fucking with you. That's one of the reasons why I got really in a tallow and really started eating a lot of bacon and things like that. Why do you think there's such like a national misconception that fat's bad for your body? Because I hear that from a lot of people, like, I don't want to eat it, it's fat. Well, they were told that for the longest time. Well first of all, there's real evidence that sugar and these companies that made sugar paid scientists to fuck with data, to put heart disease and all these problems that people are having with clogged arteries, to push that off on saturated fat and to take that away from sugar. And sugar is terrible for you. Sugar in that form is so unnatural. Fat in the form of meat is very natural. It's what human beings have been eating since the beginning of time. Yeah, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, saturated fat's all pretty good for you. Just like stay away from trans fat. Well, unsaturated fats that come from vegetable oils, like I think it's called linoleic acid, is fucking terrible for you. Not only is it terrible for you, there's real evidence that it makes you hungry. That like you're eating it and there's no nutrients in it, so your body gets hungrier. Like throughout human history, there's never been a time until recently where people got oils directly from plants in large quantities like that. You got oil from plants, it was like oil from avocados, like natural. Or you got your oil from beef fat or chicken fat or things, that's natural for human beings. These saturated fats that are natural, your body knows what to do with them. Your body doesn't know what the fuck to do with canola oil. What is it? Your body's like, what the fuck is this? Your body gets a hold of like some raw honey. Your body knows exactly what to do with it. Your body gets a hold of like fucking corn syrup and that kind of shit. It's like, what is this? It just doesn't make sense to your body. I think we've gotten into this processed food thing and processed food is almost entirely... First of all, it's a new human creation. It should never be your first choice. Your first choice should be natural foods. Your first choice should be... Look, apple, steak, all that, that's normal. You can eat that, that's easy. Your body knows what the fuck to do with that. But you get into like seed oils and all these really heavily processed seed oils. There's real evidence that that is a giant part of what's wrong with the health of Americans today is these ultra processed vegetable oils. They're fucking terrible for you. It doesn't seem to me like that's a stretch in logic, right? For just the American diet in general, for us to look at the traditional food pyramid and say, well, that's bullshit. Ultimately, if grains and processed foods sit at the cornerstone of your entire diet, you're going to have some issues. You can kind of look around and you don't even have to be a rocket surgeon to figure that out. It's like, holy shit, obesity is an epidemic in the United States. We're eating a ton of processed food and all the guys that I know that are healthy are eating whole foods for the most part. And it's not because you have more discipline or because you have more access or wealth. I know a ton of guys that are not very wealthy that eat whole foods and they're feeding in certain windows and they're still in the military, still doing fucking incredibly difficult missions and they're really healthy. So when I look around and say, well, okay, if you stick to whole foods and you limit your amount of caloric intake, we're not dealing in a high intellect thought process here. It should be pretty easy, but I think what people want is they want their easy button, right? Well, you're hungry. You see Jack in the box, you pull in, you get a burger, you're like, oh, now I feel better. But meanwhile, you just force some shit into your system and your system's got to burn off all this bullshit that you poured in there. But there's even foods that people think are healthy that are not really good for you. For instance, white rice is better than brown rice. People think white rice, like, oh, I'll have brown rice. I'm being healthy. I have brown rice. It's got to be one of the biggest misconceptions out there. That fucking stuff, there's arsenic in that. But it's brown. Yeah, it's not good. It's brown. It looks like grains. But this husk, that shit is terrible for you. There's a reason why Asian cultures for a long time have been getting rid of that outside, that husk. The Japanese got it right with food. I'm telling you. It's sushi, white rice, seaweed, just all day. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of countries that figured it out. We're just not one of them. We're like ultra-processed seed oils, sugar, corn syrup, preservatives, fucking gallons of preservatives, glyphosate on all our plants. There's also evidence that animals, and I've been getting into this lately, animals that eat these ultra-processed foods, then you eat them, like animals that eat ultra-processed corn, and then you eat that animal. You're getting some of the bullshit from the corn and some of the bullshit from that. All these seed oil acids, you're getting these things in your body too. But that makes sense to me. It makes complete sense to me when we look at what they're eating, and then you're eating them. For sure. You're not stretching and connecting a lot of complex thought there in the sense of when people are trying to sell me on the idea, like, no, it's great. Don't worry about it. It's like, no, man, those chickens are eating arsenic and they're packed in right on top of each other, shitting on each other everywhere. I'd rather have a free-range egg. 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