Barefoot Ken
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@Long_Brown_Path
Runner, writer, financial analyst, barefooter. 100+ marathons/ultra's complete. 100+ barefoot races complete. 500+ mountains climbed without shoes
eating in a calorie deficit is the most humbling experience in fitness.
After years of research, I owe you all an apology. I've been wrong. About everything. I spent the last decade telling you to avoid sugar and grains. I told you seed oils were poison. I told you the food industry was lying to you. I told you to question everything. Well, I questioned everything. And I finally found the truth. Sugar is actually essential for brain function. Your body needs it. Those headaches you get when you quit sugar? That's your brain telling you it's starving. I was literally telling you to starve your brain. And grains? The foundation of every great civilization. The Egyptians built the pyramids on bread. You think they were eating grass-fed ribeyes? No. They were carb-loading. I also want to apologize for everything I said about Kellogg's. Breakfast IS the most important meal of the day. I looked into it and that's based on real science funded by... well, it doesn't matter who funded it. The point is, a big bowl of Froot Loops and a glass of orange juice is exactly how you should start your morning. I've been working with some brilliant scientists at the Sugar Research Foundation and they've opened my eyes. Very generous people. Very well-funded research. Effective immediately, NSNG now stands for Needs Sugar, Needs Grains. I'll be launching my new program next week. It's called the SnackWell's Protocol. Fat-free cookies for breakfast, Gatorade for hydration, and a Jamba Juice smoothie with 87 grams of sugar for recovery. The science is settled. This post is proudly sponsored by @kelloggsus , @CocaColaCo , and the @American_Heart . Follow the money. Wait — I mean, follow the science. Happy April 1st. Question everything. Especially today. #NSNG #NeedsSugarNeedsGrains #SnackwellsProtocol #FrootLoopsAreHealth #QuestionEverything #AprilFools
In the 1930s, a dentist named Weston A. Price travelled the world studying traditional diets and the dental health of populations that had not yet adopted Western food. He visited the Swiss alpine villagers (raw dairy, rye bread, occasional meat), the Gaelic fishermen of the Outer Hebrides (oats and seafood including fish organs and eggs), the Maasai (milk, blood, meat), the Inuit (seal, walrus, fish, virtually no plant food), and dozens of others. What he found in every traditional population: broad facial structure, well-developed dental arches, near-absence of tooth decay, strong bones, robust physical development. What he found in the same populations once Western flour and sugar arrived: narrowed dental arches, crowded teeth, cavities, reduced facial development in the next generation. All the traditional diets he studied were rich in animal products. None of them were built on low-fat, high-grain principles. The divergence happened at exactly the moment the Western food arrived. Price called it "displacing foods of modern commerce." His book was published in 1939. We spent the next eighty years doing the opposite of what it recommended.
