In 1993, I glanced at the scale and balloons played my weight at two hundred thirty-five pounds. That was not my healthy weight of 210 pounds. Instead, It was fifty pounds past my pasty body at twenty-two years old. I still remember myself at 26, which is when the mirror would show me Will Smith’s ‘Doughboy’, every single day. Will Smith had it all sussed but something needed to change and spending money on new pants was certainly not what I was planning on doing.
I was in Chicago working for a Ph.D. graduate school, my second year and I was earning $13,000 a year. I was severely overweight. The plan was simple, give up meat and incorporate fruits along with veggies. After all, meat was the bad guy in this case. That, and I retired my car and began running, or rather, lumbering around a parking host, around 250 to 300 yards before stopping.
In just a year, my weight dropped down to 165 pounds and I was running 50 miles weekly. My frame, however, was projected to be too fit. My blood test results, however, showed a disaster. I had high triglycerides, my cholesterol was approaching 300, and my HDL was alarmingly low. I was forced to consider statins to correct my blood chemistry. I remained on that hassle of a train for sixteen years.
By my 40s, I was a national competitor in martial arts, but due to my training my body could not keep up. My blood count greatly improved, however, due to the amount of pork loins and eggs I was consuming. My doctors were shocked at how much of a difference meat made. I was also put on a strict diet that made me feel a whole lot better. I no longer knew what the “magic” of exercise felt like.
This marks the point of the documentary Fat: A Documentary, a film directed by fitness giant Vinnie Tortorich. He is someone who I have had the honor of meeting on two separate accounts, proving him to be a great inspiration in my life. Through my own experiences, I’ve learned how cutting grains and sugar drastically improves your weight, along with having many other remarkable health benefits.
The documentary explains the invention of veganism and all-meat diets of the Inuit, post-WWII grain-heavy feeding guides, and everything else that taught malnutrition disguised as the healthy eating fads of the time.
He argues that his hypothesis is, indeed, what we have been told is misleading. The suggestion that fat equals bad started in the 1950s with selective evidence and data that launched a phenomenon of diet culture geared towards eliminating fat from one’s diet.
In the 1970s, 80’s, and 90’s, the skipped calories from fat transformed into sugar, setting the stage for the emergence of a new obesity epidemic. This reliance on carbohydrates as a primary food source ignited dreadful new trends of diabetes and metabolic syndromes.
Every time I hear the phrase death is no laughing matter, I cannot help but chuckle a bit. It is as entertaining as it is informative, and funny on so many levels. For me, the punchline is utterly grim.
I did not support the constant suggestion that this dietary misdirection was an intentional effort by the medical to make people sick so they could sell more medicine, and that somehow, doctors withheld this information. I knew how an industry could be that secretive, and how every scientist and physician turns out to be a wilful pawn of the conspiracy.
On the contrary, I do support Drew Pinsky’s view in the film that he was never taught anything about nutrition as a physician. That’s what’s wrong. Patients expect easy solutions, and the doctors offer them instantly diagnoses and pills.
It’s more of a breakdown of the training of doctors, care given to patients as a convention, lack of compliance by patients, the variation of genes, and the attitude towards the so-called ‘quick fix.’ Plus, how do you change people’s long-held social habits and wishes?
I also do not agree that a diet consisting entirely of meat is the only option. The way I see it, the evidence is overwhelming that fresh fruits and vegetables provide essential vitamins, trace elements, fiber, and other health-promoting compounds.
The sugar blend is the most harmful and the most processed of all. To make matters worse, some foods have up to seventy hidden terms that refer to sugar such as dextrose. Those terms disguise carbohydrates that later transform into sugar after metabolism. This sugar is translated into fat in the body that is already prone to metabolic disorders. No wonder the United States is experiencing a slump in health trends.
The matters I outline in this film are applicable, so it is worth a watch. Combining the facts in this film with my personal care plan will not be so effortless, given that genetics is also a crucial part to how one is predisposed to long-term health dangers and their reaction when changing diets.
That’s what it all boils down to. Try to remove all artificial sugars or at least limit them. Stick to proportions of fruit, veggies, meat, milk, and eggs that are healthy. Now, make it a little more complicated. Skip some meals. Change when exactly you eat. Try too fast. You need to be the test subject here.
Tortorich’s movie is an excellent starting point in that respect. Go watch it and leave furious. Be revolted at how you have been misled and fed harmful information that works against your best interests. After that, make sure to change your diet and exercise routines for the better.
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