Here’s the latest for those neurotic brides-to-be out there: the K-E Diet. As unbelievable as it sounds the K-E Diet consists of a feeding tube that runs through the nose to the stomach which provides a slow drip of 800 zero carb calories a day.  Side effects?  Bad breath, constipation, public acknowledgement of one’s lack of self-esteem, lack of willpower and ignorance of preparing and eating real, non-processed food.

It’s a truth is stranger than fiction situation.  I imagine this could be a Beta test for what the PTB have in mind for all the serfs. “Soylent Green ” is passé, this is a dystopia where no one can grow food anymore and gov’t centers distribute liquid food bags to the populace and everyone has a tube in their nose and they stink.

It’s funny, yet pathetic, how the high-strung woman in the video notes that she prefers the degradation of the feeding tube because she “doesn’t have time to work out an hour and a half per day every day.” 1.5 hours per day? For…? Unfortunately, mainstream magazine and TV trash, along with the governmentized, mainstream fitness industry, has indoctrinated people with the notion that one needs to do more to be in better shape. Accordingly, ignorant, whining individuals then exacerbate those claims in their own mind so they have the ultimate excuse for the opt out.

Post-marriage, these soon-to-be wives can only hope that Stouffer’s or Banquet can manage to reinvent the frozen, microwave meal for the feeding tube set. Then we can all make the claim that we have no time to cook, and we can walk around the mall all weekend with the whole family feeding on the run on easy-drip processed foods in between Cinnabons and Auntie Ann’s pretzels. Or, I can see the drive-thru attendant at a future McDonald’s: “Miss, would you like a feeding tube to slow-drip your Chicken McNuggets?”

Chicken broth can be dressed into soup in many creative ways. However, I sometimes like the plain approach so that I can savor the goodness of real and fresh broth. So yes, don’t throw those chicken carcasses away after you eat the meat – the best part is still to come. The broth. Here I chose to dress my broth with fresh leeks, fennel, and cubanelle peppers. I topped off the broth mixture with pepper and tarragon.

A few days ago, I enjoyed some grilled, pastured Berkshire pork ribs, with a perfect, free-range egg over medium. The food is of such high quality, and it is all so satiating, my meals are smaller than would be the norm (from my deep, dark past) with industrial meat and eggs. I like to top off my eggs with fresh dill.

Here are the pork brats I get from Melo. Look at the meat integrity and color. Here I am cooking them in coconut oil.

Finally, here is a mostly Melo meal of the pork breakfast links and a 2-egg omelette stuffed with fennel and onion, and topped off with almond slivers. I added a small Kale salad to top off the omelette for a distinctive taste and the goodness of greens.

Yes, being on the primal, or paleolithic diet, as a lifestyle, is very defeating and starvation-like. Of course, I say that with a huge smile.

“It seems funny,” Silver says, “but for thousands of years this was the thing that people cooked with.

A century ago, lard was in every American pantry and fryer. These days, lard is an insult.

“The word lard has become this generally derogatory term associated with fat and disgustingness,” says Dan Pashman who hosts a food podcast called The Sporkful. “Think about Lard-ass, the character from the movie Stand By Me. I mean, he didn’t want to be called Lard-ass.”

How did this delicious, all-natural fat from a pig become an insult? Who killed lard?

Last year, Food & Wine published a piece, “Lard: The New Health Food?” Lard, which is rendered pork fat (or bacon butter), is still used in traditional cultures that haven’t been held captive by a government food pyramid. (However, be aware to not buy supermarket lard because it is all hydrogenated.) To quote an article in The Guardian:

Assaulted by food company propaganda and disillusioned by decades of conflicting advice, many people are returning to diets unsullied by fads and dogma. That lard is both “healthier” than butter and yet so despised shows the empty logic of the standard position. The fat amply qualifies as “real food”, that definition popularised by Michael Pollan as “the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognise as food”. Indeed, its history and heritage make it seem more valuable than ever when you consider what the lard hath given.

Instead, Crisco and assorted industrial oils were created in a lab, and now, subsidized products made of soybean oil, fully hydrogenated oils, and partially hydrogenated oils have become the “heart healthy” choices as so declared by the Big Food-Big Agra corporate-socialist oligarchy.

Along the same lines, it is funny to watch the FDA and state governments go nuts over the popularity of e-cigarettes. A half a dozen states are introducing e-cigarette bans, and special taxes and Internet bans are being proposed. Additionally, e-cigarettes aren’t subject to the government tobacco taxes, and they come in flavors, making them “tasty” to some folks. The same FDA that brought us aspartame – along with Donald Rumsfeld – is said to be “moving expeditiously to propose e-cigarette regulations.”

Karen,

I was watching Bloomberg news this morning before work, and one of the bimboettes was doing a story on people living longer during this recession. Her comment was that because people could not afford to go out and buy a steak dinner, there were fewer heart attacks. Brilliant!

Someone show me that study. Please?

From an article in USA Today:

I was thinking about the Super Bowl. What goes with the Super Bowl but chicken wings? And I said, ‘Oh, a chicken wing cupcake, Rachel?’ And I tried five or six recipes and the last recipe when I was ready to call it quits I think we kinda nailed it on it.

I take you back in time to my classic blog post: “Sautéed Raccoon’s Funnel Cake Ass on a Cheesecake Caramel Deep-Fried Stick.”

I get so many of these letters each week/month from libertarians who latch on to the primal/paleo articles on LewRockwell.com and turn their lives around by vastly improving their weight and health. It is a joy to read every single one of those emails. I admire these folks because they step up and work hard to educate themselves, they reach out to folks for advice, and ultimately, they take accountability for their choices and actions to improve their quality of life. And then they pass on their knowledge and resources to those around them who want to do the same.

For more on this topic, also listen to Lew Rockwell’s podcast with Mark Sisson, “Just Do the Opposite of What the Government Says.”