““Many chronic symptoms and health conditions—such as fatigue, sleepiness, mood disorders, insomnia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, lipid disorders, high blood pressure, headaches (including migraines), gas, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, joint inflammation, acne, and difficulty concentrating, to name a few—will improve on a ketogenic diet. Treating lifestyle conditions with lifestyle change such as this can make us a healthier and less drug-dependent country. ”
“Although I am so proud of how far I have come and in the last year I have made leaps and bounds, honestly probably the most recovery and personal healing I have done since being diagnosed with Anorexia. See I am such an impatient person, when I want something to change or happen, I want it NOW. This process of recovery has taught me to slow down and follow the process. It has taken me four years of finally choosing myself and my health. I always used to trick myself into believing I was making so much progress but deep inside I knew I was holding onto my eating disorder as a comforting blanket to catch me every time things got hard or uncertain, I always knew anorexia would be there to catch me if I fall... and she did catch me every time. She comforted me in her suffocating arms and held me tight. She told me she would never let me go and that being together was always better.”
“Compared to the Jurched soldiers, the Mongols were much healthier and stronger. The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. Unlike the Jurched soldiers, who were dependent on a heavy carbohydrate diet, the Mongols could more easily go a day or two without food.”
— Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford)
“Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We’re often told that the only solution is to reduce or quit red meat entirely. But despite what anti-meat groups, vegan celebrities, and some health experts say, plant-based agriculture is far from a perfect solution. In Sacred Cow, registered dietitian Diana Rodgers and former research biochemist and New York Times bestselling author Robb Wolf explore the quandaries we face in raising and eating animals—focusing on the largest (and most maligned) of farmed animals, the cow.”
