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An all-egg diet? What whould happen?

Posted on March 25, 2010 by buffalo360| 1 Comment

There’s a audio-only video on YouTube where Jimmy Moore Talks With doctors Mike and Mary Dan Eades about an all-egg diet. They talk about an 88-year old man who ate nothing but 24 eggs a day. Almost 2,000 calories a day, just from eggs! He usually at them boiled, either soft or hard, and because of his unusual diet they did a case study on him. He had good blood work, good cholesterol levels and all-around general health with no problems.

They talk pretty fast, so I’ve included a transcript of the article below. After listening to this, I had to go cook up a big batch of eggs!

Audio Transcript

Jimmy Moore: I’m thinking of doing an experiment. For one week, just eat ten dozen eggs that whole week. Just to see what would happen to my cholesterol levels, and have it run … just for fun and as an experiment (laughs).

Mike Eades: Well I could tell you what would probably happen. Your LDL might go up a little bit, but your HDL would probably go up a lot. Your triglycerides would go down and LDL particle size would go up. There was an interesting study that came out about, oh I dunno, fifteen, eh, eighteen years ago, well not that long, probably fifteen years ago I guess, published in Southern Medical Journal. A case report of this elderly guy, this 88-year old guy who was in a nursing home. He ate twenty-four eggs a day, and that was his diet!

Jimmy Moore: Two dozen a day … wow!

Mike Eades: And he had the eggs brought in to him, and I think he’d boil them or soft boil them and he ate these 24 eggs a day. They published it because, he was fine. He had no cholesterol problems, he had no problems whatsoever, and the tone of the article was that he ate these eggs, that was in addition to the regular nursing home fare, which is usually pretty high in carbs. That can’t be, an eighty-eight year old guy can’t eat all those eggs, plus regular nursing home fare. So I wrote the researcher, and I said, “hey, did the guy, you know, eat regular nursing home fare? because that’s what is suggested in the article”, I said, “because I can’t imagine a guy eat twenty-four eggs plus that”. He wrote back and said, “No, actually we went and checked with the nursing home staff and you’re right, he didn’t eat anything but the eggs.” And so then it all made sense, because if you eat the egg, you got protein and you got fat, and that’s what we were designed to eat.

Jimmy Moore: That’s right.

Mike Eades: So if you want to find out what happened, you can go read that study, and find out what happens to somebody who did it for a long time.

Jimmy Moore: Wow, that’s amazing.

Mary Dan Eades: It’s a shame that eggs have gotten the rap that they’ve gotten, because they are such a perfect little protein source and good fat, and they’re inexpensive, when you get right down to it. If you ate those two dozen eggs a day, which I can’t imagine many people that could eat two dozen eggs a day. But if you did eat two dozen eggs a day, and what are you paying?

Jimmy Moore (doing math out loud): Two, three dollars, four dollars?

Mary Dan Eades: 6 bucks? It’s a very cheap source of good quality protein.

Jimmy Moore (laughing): Yup, I’m definitely going to do that experiment now then.

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How-to make a Yam Bake

Posted on March 10, 2010 by buffalo360| Leave a comment

The yam bake is an excellent staple for the active paleo who wants to be able to fuel workouts and physical activity with carbohydrates. It’s a very affordable source of calories: yams and shredded coconut are very cheap ingredients, and this dish is one of the cheapest you can make on a paleo diet. You can make 8-12 servings from one dish, and preparation time is under 20 minutes, so it also has a very good prep time to food output ratio. It’s also a very portable food and tastes great cold or at room temperature, so it’s good when you are on the go or in the backcountry.

Ingredients

  • 4-6 small to medium yams, or you can try it with sweet potatoes – or both!
  • 3-6 eggs, or 3-6 tbsps coconut oil.
  • 1-2 cups shredded coconut
  • “breakfast spices”: cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg.
  • Additional treats: coconut milk, almond flour, coconut flour, pecans, almonds, walnuts, blueberries, apple slices, turkey meat, bacon.

Preparation

Chop up the yams, then steam them for 20-30 minutes – the more chopped up they are, the faster they steam. Transfer yams to a mixing bowl and mash them up – I just use a fork for this. Add a bunch of eggs, maybe 3 or 4, but use more if you have lots of dry ingredients that you’ll be using as additional treats. You can also substitute with coconut oil for a more tropical flavour. Stir in the shredded coconut – use lots as it’s essential for giving the dish texture. If you get shredded coconut in the cooking section at a grocery store, it can be a bit pricey, but if you can find it in bulk packages, it’s really cheap.

Spices should start with a base of a large dose of cinnamon – this has an insulin-sensitivity boosting effect to work in conjunction with the high glucose content of the yams. You can also add allspice and nutmeg to taste. Nutmeg is pretty good, but it can be toxic to the liver in large doses, so don’t add more than one or two tablespoons. If you’re adding meat to the dish, you might want to use turmeric, pepper and ginger instead of allspice and nutmeg.

There is tonne of food that work well in yam bakes to give it variety. It’s a good dish for helping clean out your cupboard – or just add whatever you like the most! Nuts are a good staple, you can place a bed of pecans on the top of the casserole dish for presentation, or just stir them into the yam bake. Walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts will also work well. The yams already create a sweet dish, but if going for a dessert or high energy food, you can chop up some fruit, apples, bananas, blueberries, or go the other direction and add some steamed veggies and meat – a layer of kale and turkey forms a crude “paleo sandwich”. Salmon or other types of fish go really well with yams. You can create additional bulk and flavour to the meal with almond flour or coconut flour.

Cooking

Finally, after everything is stirred together, transfer the ingredients into a casserole dish and cook  at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes – if you garnished with nuts, then watch the time, as pecans tend to start getting burnt at about 23 minutes.

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Back on the Bells

Posted on March 3, 2010 by buffalo360| Leave a comment

Off for two weeks after tweaking my shoulder and neck muscles on the left side, then the week after that, off for two more weeks after tweaking my right shoulder, I finally got a chance to give the kettlebells a proper workout in my new home gym.

After helping my friends Craig and Karen move on the weekend, I was pretty dog tired for a couple days. They’ve got a lot of stuff! Still wasn’t quite feeling 100% up to snuff, and after nearly a five week hiatus from regular lifting, I had that feels-like-maybe-I-should-puke sensation mid-workout. Let’s see if I can stay uninjured long enough to get back into the swing of things.

Also got my GymBoss interval timer, so I was able to time the workout more easily. Quite handy when doing the top-of-the-minute rep workouts.

New Gym, Weak Shoulders Workout

  • 8 minutes of warm-ups: Shoulder Blade Wall Walk, Turkish Half-up, Turkish Get-up.
  • 6 minutes: One-leg Deadlift x 5 per leg, Table Top x 5.
  • 6 minutes of Shoulder work: RKC Shoulder Rotator, RKC Arm Bar. Just using a mini 4 kg kettlebell, as I’m still learning the form for these moves.
  • 6 mintues: Kettlebell Squats x 10 w/ 24 kg, Walking Plank x 6.
  • 12 minutes: Kettlebell Swings, doing 15 reps at the top of each minute.
  • Cool down: Rear Arch x 3, Scorpion x 10, assorted stretching. Shower!
Shoulder is feeling good post-workout. Still a little tight in the whole upper back area overall, and still not quite at 100%, so I’ll probably keep at the isometric shoulder exercises for at least another week and work on improving my shoulder awareness before kicking back into the military press.

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