Evolution Two – week Four
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Hello Folks,
Happy Father’s Day! I spent the morning celebrating with a dad and the evening celebrating with the same dad. Of course I managed to squeeze in my workout. I had a riveting conversation with a vegan eater today about diet and protein and was referred to several sources of information on the topic. Of course every one has an opinion about it.
I found a clip by a raw food guy who thinks what we really need is amino acids and not protein. You can’t argue with the fact that most foods have protein and most foods have carbs and lots of foods have fat.
Hello Folks,
Happy Father’s Day! I spent the morning celebrating with a dad and the evening celebrating with the same dad. Of course I managed to squeeze in my workout. I had a riveting conversation with a vegan eater today about diet and protein and was referred to several sources of information on the topic. Of course every one has an opinion about it.
I found a clip by a raw food guy who thinks what we really need is amino acids and not protein. You can’t argue with the fact that most foods have protein and most foods have carbs and lots of foods have fat.
It kind of reminds me of the debate about energy and matter. Picture this...if all things are made up of energy and energy is basically atoms (alright-for you scientists I am simplifying it a bit, but I don’t claim to be an atomist or a scientist necessarily), then we are all made up basically of the same thing –energy. This energy technically is the ingredient of food as well.
Here is the thought....perhaps the closer we get to food that has the least links....or connectors or whatever you want to call it....the less dense foods so to speak; the easier they are to absorb the energy...pure energy. There are some who think we can live off of oxygen (a form of purer energy). Not that I recommend oxygen as a diet.....I love food!
So raw food people are saying we need to focus on the most nutrient rich, and less dense foods. How does this translate into muscle building or fat loss? I wonder how much muscle building is in part genetic and part effort. I don’t know yet...but perhaps through some experimentation I can find out a little bit for my self about this topic.
Interesting how a detox diet might include a raw food diet approach. If we eat to keep our systems perpetually toxin free that could create interesting results around weight loss, I suspect. However, there are toxins hard to control...air pollution...etc. Regardless, there are many interesting possibilities to explore when it comes to diet.
I have always felt a special connection to the belief that food is the energy that runs our batteries, therefore what I eat effects my energy system. The more that I am aware of this and the more I know about how food impacts the body the better able I am to progress on my fitness/health goals.
Exercise: Continuous, Interval
Menu: Veggies and Protein
Until next time…
Think, Believe, Act, Achieve
Dakota
Today’s Mantra: If all matter is made up of energy, does that mean less dense matter has more energy than more dense m
Until next time…
Think, Believe, Act, Achieve
Dakota
Today’s Mantra: If all matter is made up of energy, does that mean less dense matter has more energy than more dense m
