OOH! I THINK TODAY IS A GOOD DAY FOR A DIET RANT!!!

SAD - Standard American Diet (which everyone seems to admit is shit, whether they are plant-based proponents, keto, selling you a supplement, whatever.)

I'm seeing a hole in the logic though. If the SAD is really that bad, then why are these people still alive even? Why aren't they all much more obese? Why aren't they falling over in the street dead of multiple ailments?

Really, this bugs me. I see people, even attractive people, that eat nothing but garbage, don't do much for exercise, and just somehow don't become human potatoes.

Maybe the human body really is that bad-ass, that it can just Chuck Norris its way through a lifetime of garbage consumption, and still maintain much of its good qualities.

It is easy to convince someone who already believes themselves to be overweight and unhealthy that their diet is unhealthy and they should change. I think it is much harder to convince someone who is fairly fit, or at least average (granted, average has done downhill over the last century, but this is average in their head, not mine). And then almost impossible to convince someone that follows their plant-based diet of bugs and chemicals, works out every day, and has low body fat and decent muscle tone.

And that last person is somehow able to exist on the SAD, sometimes with little or no extra effort, due to some genetic honey badger of internal systems. They definitely exist on everything better than the SAD, with varying levels of additional effort.

I'm going to continue optimizing for my own system, and try not to yell too loudly that everything that is not meat is not needed (even dairy, although it is a reasonable way to get some extra needed fat if you aren't getting enough - might I also suggest fish?) - but my mind still wants to fill that logic hole with some kind of explanation better than magic genetics.

Maybe the answer is our tenuous human grasp on reality - maybe we only see these people as moderately healthy or fit because our minds have been trained to see them that way. I don't know.

Munday Funday! #grownostr #carnivore #meat #keto #diet #foodstr