They say the way to a man’s heart is via his stomach. Now, I’ve seen men who are excellent cooks woo women (who may or may not have been able to cook) and win their hearts in the kitchen, too, so I don’t think that phrase is exclusive to men. The way to a woman’s heart may be via her stomach, too. If a man prepares BBQ or even a poorly made salad for a woman, that gesture would be very much appreciated by her, there is no doubt.
I’ve written in earlier posts and certainly have read on other sites about the difficulty of explaining to someone who is suffering from metabolic derangement about what is so obvious to us now. The obvious human normal carb diet.
The obvious human normal carb diet would be:
-meats and seafood
-vegetables
-moderate amount of fruits
-water (ahem, I also drink coffee daily, wine on weekends and have 87% chocolate about once a month, ahem, or more often)
and adjusting AWAY from the High Carbohydrate NonHuman Diabetes Inducing Diet means:
-avoiding GRAINS (wheat, corn, rice)
-avoiding LEGUMES (beans)
-avoiding HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP,
-avoiding POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS (PUFAs) like vegetable oils from corn, soy, etc., while not worrying about intake of the innocent healthy saturated fats.
-severely limiting or avoiding SUGAR (e.g., eat an apple, no need to drink the sugary apple juice)
-severely limiting or avoiding altogether STARCHY VEGETABLES (like avoiding potatoes, I’ll speak only for myself here. I avoid potatoes because when eating them I don’t stop at one, or two, or three…. Sweet potato, yes, I can limit myself but I have to watch my self control The white potatoes? No way, I lose control like Homer Simpson in a donut shop. I eat until I’m absolutely stuffed and feel bloated for hours and into the next day. But again, avoiding potatoes worked for me, if you’re a paleo potato gal or guy and potatoes are in your diet, good on you.)
-limiting DAIRY (I’m at the point where I just have dairy in the form of cheese on a salad at a restaurant. I very rarely have any form of dairy at home anymore. Again, there are other paleo diet adherents big on dairy, good on them. For me, just like with potatoes, I don’t stop at a lil’ bit of cheese or milk or greek yogurt or cream, I’ll eat cheese like a drunk dairy king. The one noted exception, I cook with butter almost exclusively. I don’t eat butter like someone I know, I just cook with it. If I ate it like this guy, I’m afraid I would be downing butter cubes like Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas. Maybe I’ll try preworkout butter shots someday, but for now I’ll continue limiting dairy and cooking with butter, this has worked for me.)
PALEO DOG CHALLENGE
As a commenter noted, it makes sense that a dog would eat a paleo diet given that mankind and dogkind lived with each other for so long in paleolithic times. Good point. Certainly it may be looked at the other way, right? Could it?
Maybe the best way to explain the paleo/evolutionary diet is to a dog-owning metabolically deranged person by using their dog as an example. Now, metabolically deranged sounds so harsh, but it’s true. Robb Wolf uses this phrase often, and it’s made its way into my active vocabulary. I know metabolically deranged best described me BP (Before Paleo).
By the way, I don’t think calling someone “metabolically deranged” is the best way to endear that person toward you, so that’s not what I would recommend for a Paleo Pick Up Line! ”Hey baby, I see you’re metabolically deranged, how about you and I eat like cavemen and I’ll show you how to live?!” Probably not going to be very effective. Probably not going to help that person find their paleo kairos moment that way.
A paleo challenge usually starts with the “target” person being challenged to start giving up some or all of the food items in my above list. But for many when they hear “paleo challenge” it sounds more like living on roots and being chased by someone wielding a spear. Probably not a very convincing (to some) image to woo them.
But, what if someone you knew was having a hard time with high blood pressure, pre-diabetic, anxiety, obesity, bad readings of LDL, etc., and that person… owned a dog?
Ok, different question.
How much does 4 weeks of quality “paleo” meat dogfood cost? I would assume the cost of this dogfood would be less than the safe, healthy and inexpensive investment of 4 weeks of buying fruits, vegetables and meat/seafood for your metabolically deranged friend.
PALEO DOG CHALLENGE “PICK UP” LINE
In my efforts to sound less like the food police and a paleo nut, I limit my talk on the evolutionary living lifestyle unless someone really asks for it. However, if I had a loved one (that owned a dog) that is dealing with metabolic derangement (e.g., the various symptoms of metabolic syndrome) I would try at least once delicately the below 2-minute nonthreatening elevator speech.
“Here’s the deal. You know that crazy paleo thing that I do, well, it was a big step for me to start it, it’s a big step for anyone. Instead of you taking that initial plunge into paleo diet world, how about you let your dog be like the first dog in space, and your dog could take the first steps for you? And because, gee whiz, I love you so much, I’ll offer to pay for 4 weeks of paleo dogfood that you’ll feed your dog exclusively. No chow or milkbones, no scooby snacks, just real dog food for your dog. During those 4 weeks please notice the changes in health that your dog will go through. And at the end of those 4 weeks, I’d like you to think about continuing to feed your dog that way if after those 4 weeks you have found his health dramatically improved.”
“And one last thing, during and after those 4 weeks, I’d like you to think about whether this 4-week+ experiment would be something you’d consider for yourself regarding a human normal carb diet. No pressure, just ask you to consider it. If you agree to this Paleo Dog Challenge, I promise that afterward in any case to never be the food police with you or bother you about this subject again (unless you ask!). And with that my friend, do we have a deal? Because I can be back from the pet store and/or butcher shop in about 20 minutes with a month’s supply of REAL dog food that your dog will love.”
