Mike setting a world marathon record, age 90 After reading Power Foods for the Brain, I now understand how Mike Fremont's mind can be so alive as he grows into his 90s. No sign of memory failure. Alert, fully cognitive, and strikingly aware of world events and current research, his mental condition defies the common perception of old age.
I now also understand why Americans eat the way they do. Dr. Barnard explained it well in his book. Dopamine, released in the brain, yields a powerful influence on how we approach food. Since this is so important, I will save my commentary on it for a future blog. In the meantime, enjoy this week's message by world marathon record-holder Mike Fremont. And remember, he did not set his records until he changed his eating habits.
Mike’s exercise for the week of July 21:
Tues. Run 3, walk 5
Wed. Canoe race 3
Thurs. Run 5
Fri. Canoe race 3
Sat. Push friend in a wheel chair 1 mile
Sun. Run 10
DIETS!
… are a bore! I'm not on one! I just avoid poisonous foods: milk, meat, eggs, poultry, fish, seafood. Minimize fat (oils), sugar and salt. No Monsters, no Cokes. No oil-soaked pizzas, donuts, pastries. All these are appetizing to the point of addiction, my gourmet friends! Want wine or beer? Get some NA (non-alcoholic).It’s a game to avoid cheese in restaurants. Try it!
Since beans sometimes generate embarrassing gas, get Beano. I once asked a deli clerk if she had any free-range, organic Beano. And when she announced a special on 9-whole grain bread, I told her I preferred 13-grain, but okay, I'll buy one.
Almost all diets are to lose weight. Almost all also promise to increase sexuality although I've never seen an ad get very specific about this result.
I never measure my food inputs or their timing or frequency. I eat all I want and do not gain weight.
There are all kinds of diets based on what it is thought we evolved to eat. Curious. In those days we ate what grew there or what we could catch. Our foods didn't come 1500 miles to us. We caught it in rivers and lakes, drove it over a cliff or speared it somewhere if it was there … or we ate shoots and leaves as the book by this name says, "Eats Shoots and Leaves". Some say we could not have developed such a large, fertile brain if we had not had the high-calorie input of meat, which gave us the leisure to think and plan instead of having to forage all day like deer and rabbits – with no time to think. But as we eat more and more meat, we don't seem to get smarter.
We're killing 55 billion animals a year to eat and taking down the world's great rain forests to feed them. Growing meat is a brutally inefficient way to nourish ourselves but quite good at increasing global warming. We're proving it now!
PS Mike shared a website with me that illustrates the potential damage
of global warming. You might be interested:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/24
I now also understand why Americans eat the way they do. Dr. Barnard explained it well in his book. Dopamine, released in the brain, yields a powerful influence on how we approach food. Since this is so important, I will save my commentary on it for a future blog. In the meantime, enjoy this week's message by world marathon record-holder Mike Fremont. And remember, he did not set his records until he changed his eating habits.
Mike’s exercise for the week of July 21:
Tues. Run 3, walk 5
Wed. Canoe race 3
Thurs. Run 5
Fri. Canoe race 3
Sat. Push friend in a wheel chair 1 mile
Sun. Run 10
DIETS!
… are a bore! I'm not on one! I just avoid poisonous foods: milk, meat, eggs, poultry, fish, seafood. Minimize fat (oils), sugar and salt. No Monsters, no Cokes. No oil-soaked pizzas, donuts, pastries. All these are appetizing to the point of addiction, my gourmet friends! Want wine or beer? Get some NA (non-alcoholic).It’s a game to avoid cheese in restaurants. Try it!
Since beans sometimes generate embarrassing gas, get Beano. I once asked a deli clerk if she had any free-range, organic Beano. And when she announced a special on 9-whole grain bread, I told her I preferred 13-grain, but okay, I'll buy one.
Almost all diets are to lose weight. Almost all also promise to increase sexuality although I've never seen an ad get very specific about this result.
I never measure my food inputs or their timing or frequency. I eat all I want and do not gain weight.
There are all kinds of diets based on what it is thought we evolved to eat. Curious. In those days we ate what grew there or what we could catch. Our foods didn't come 1500 miles to us. We caught it in rivers and lakes, drove it over a cliff or speared it somewhere if it was there … or we ate shoots and leaves as the book by this name says, "Eats Shoots and Leaves". Some say we could not have developed such a large, fertile brain if we had not had the high-calorie input of meat, which gave us the leisure to think and plan instead of having to forage all day like deer and rabbits – with no time to think. But as we eat more and more meat, we don't seem to get smarter.
We're killing 55 billion animals a year to eat and taking down the world's great rain forests to feed them. Growing meat is a brutally inefficient way to nourish ourselves but quite good at increasing global warming. We're proving it now!
PS Mike shared a website with me that illustrates the potential damage
of global warming. You might be interested:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/24
