RHINOS ARE ENDAGERED, BUT HIPPOS WILL EAT YOUR HEAD!

How come the Rhino’s are endangered, but the hippos, well, they could just eat your head?

It always amazes me, that the fitness profession, the profession that I was (and still am) heavily involved in, still perpetuates the notion that the 'one-size-fits-all approach to weight loss is still: ‘just eat a calorie deficit’; and my “favourite” one: ‘eat a balance, there is no bad food'.’

Which, by the way, is such dangerous advice to give people, and it truly shows their ignorance, or lack of awareness of some of these professionals.

So, how do we move on from this?

Well first it’s important to understand the body’s basic needs:

1. Sleep - you cannot operate for very long without sleep.

2. Water - your body needs water to move things around and to replenish the water used by the brain, and body through sweat.

3. Eating - you must eat food every day to maintain your energy, and to give your body the macro-requirements it needs.

4. Breathing - you need to take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide every day.

5. You must supplement with the 90 ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS everyday - look in a basic anatomy & physiology book in the chapter in ‘Chemical Organisation’, it will give you some clue.

NEXT? . . .

Next, you want to familiarize yourself with the bad foods and ‘why’.

Note, there are twelve of them:

1. Wheat

2. Barley

3. Rye

4. Oats

5. Fried Food

6. All Oil in a Bottle

7. Skins of Baked potatoes, Yams, and Sweet Potatoes (when they’re crispy)

8. Carbonated Drinks

9. Nitrates/Nitrites in Meat (such as deli meat, bacon and sausage)

10. Burnt Meat

11. Soy

12. And Corn

These foods are bad, for the most part, because they cause inflammation and damage the intestinal villi that is responsible for absorbing food.

The last two on this list are very dangerous, because they can directly harm your DNA, especially soy products - as 95% of soy products globally, are genetically modified (GMO), and soybean oil has been directly related to cancer.

Now, I don’t like restriction, and the fact that we’re all engaging in regular exercise . . . well, we get hungry!

And this begs the question: ‘What are the good foods?’

The good foods are everything ‘not’ on the previous list:

1. Chicken, Turkey, Pork, Duck

2. Salmon, Mackerel, Sardines, Squid, Sea Bass, Tuna (and other fishy food)(Healthy Fat)

3. Beef, Venison, Buffalo, Ostrich, Lamb, and so on (Healthy Fat)

4. Eggs (Healthy Fat)

5. Butter, Lard, Tallow (Healthy Fat)

6. Yoghurt, Milk, and so on

7. Fruit and Vegetables

8. Nuts and Seeds

9. Herbs and Spices

10. Dark Chocolate (Preferably 70% >)

11. Beans, Lentils and other pulses

12. Rice, Millet, Quinoa, and so on.

Now, if you cannot make a healthy meal out of these that tastes great, then you need to educate yourself further.

This is how those stoic rhinos will survive.

Those hippos, the ones that attack you for ‘getting up in their grill’, they will have to find peace in the ‘Good Food’ list.

No more fighting amongst ourselves about what is ‘good food’ and what is ‘bad food’.

I also have observed that people tend to have the wrong impression about ‘Balance’- and it’s not something where you can “reward” yourself with after the fact.

What are you rewarding yourself for? For eating good for a day, a week? That’s some weak shit.

Now, unless your and athlete-adventurer, and doing ultra-marathons, where you need to engulf enormous amounts of calories (8,000-15,000 range), then you shouldn’t be “rewarding” anything, because you haven’t done anything worth rewarding . . . .

You got the energy you want?

You get the vibrant health you want?

No?

Then stop listening to people that have this false belief about ‘there are no bad foods, eat balanced’ - this is an uneducated person.

You, the audience, the public, you deserve better. You are the future voice of reason, the future of health, energy and fitness.

STAY STRONG!

Be as vicious as a Hippo, and as stoic as a rhino.

Attack your goals with everything you have!

This is a work of non-fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s research and experience or are used factually. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely accurate.  

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