David, *Your general experiences? *
Not a lot of change with a diet like this for us from an otherwise balanced with healthy grain diet in body mass or otherwise. Our cholesterol jumped a little, but that's subject to fluctuation anyway. On good vs bad cholesterol, see http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/health/research/hdl-good-cholesterol-found-not-to-cut-heart-risk.html?_r=0 Don't know if that's truth or truthy, just another data point. *Your reasons for adopting this diet, and your experience in the transition period? * Read Mark Sisson's blog a few years ago, and it sounded like it made sense. Now it doesn't so much. I watched this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOjVYgYaG8 *Difficulties? * We were pretty strict on the diet for about two years. We were probably constipated the whole time. Ate only grain fed beef and fish (which, BTW, is typically just cattle fed bales of alfalfa instead of grain). My wife and I are both fairly trim (I'm 6'1", about 170 lbs), she's a size four. We pretty much went back to just veggies, some whole grains, and fish (occasionally) when we're out to dinner. Likewise any refined sugar. My wife felt better immediately after leaving the heavy meat Paleo, and shed about four or five pounds. Also struggled with the sustainability of a high meat Paleo diet. Don't think too many Paleolithic creatures were eating bacon. Maybe more rotting carcases on the veranda. Maybe that's what gave us the tongue for umami. Bacon? See http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/business/PEDv-plagues-the-pork-industry-and-environmentalists.html I wonder what goes on in the intestines and glandular functions with a high animal tissue diet. Maybe Grant's book will discuss that. I know he's looking into a lot of this stuff, and I'll be curious to read about it. *What would you bring on a lengthy bike ride (bike-related!) or overnight? * Long bike ride? Lots of sugar is supposedly consumed with impunity. See Gretchen Reynolds' book on diet for bike rides: http://www.amazon.com/The-First-20-Minutes-Surprising/dp/B00CY5AUYA Overnight? Food you really like. Warm food if it's going to be cold. We like soup! Cheers, Chris On Sunday, November 9, 2014 9:32:59 AM UTC-7, David Banzer wrote: > > "Since I don't need the last word...can we agree to wrap this up on this > forum by, say, Monday Noon? Whatevs-----" > > Agreed, as the OP, I was hesitant to post this here as I assumed > (correctly) that this would thread would devolve as it did. My original > questions were merely asking for those who had experience with a similar > diet that Grant discusses. I wasn't really asking for judgement calls from > those who do not have experience with this diet... However, everyone is > entitled to an opinion. > I'll restate my original questions (though I've received an adequate > number of responses on & off list): > Anyone follow a similar diet? > Your general experiences? > Your reasons for adopting this diet, and your experience in the transition > period? > Difficulties? > What would you bring on a lengthy bike ride (bike-related!) or overnight? > > If you have a response to these questions - please respond directly > offlist either as a PM or to daba...@gmail.com <javascript:>. > > I agree with Grant that this thread should be wrapped up, and any debates > about diet practices should be directed directly to Grant at his given > email for his book, or directly to those you'd like to have a conversation > with, all off-list. > > This thread has given some lively discussion. It started as an OT post (my > fault), but has gone even further off-topic from the RBW-OB typical > discussions. > So yes, let's wrap this up by Monday. > Thanks for all the discussion. > David > Chicago > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
