Red Pill: Diet

Diet is a particularly insidious one that mainstream health is either lying about or, at a minimum, not helpful with. You are probably aware of the common suggestions:

• “Eat less, move more”
• “Calories in, calories out”
• “Eat more veggies”
• “Fat is bad”
• “Avoid red meat”

At best, these mottos aren’t helpful but some of them are flat-out lies. Most of you won’t have to count calories if you just eat the way you were evolved to eat. If you have issues with gas, bloating, or general digestive distress, you’ll find that reducing your fiber intake actually helps. Most of you will find that increasing your fat consumption helps you feel better and have better focus and energy.

The low-fat/high vegetable diet is vegan propaganda that is regurgitated as “truth” because food corporations that were starting to see a decline in their processed food sales found a get-out-of-jail-free card. If they just slapped a “vegan” logo on their products, BAMN! It is now healthy! Now, processed foods are back on the rise because these mega food corporations can say that their grain and sugar-laden cereal is healthier than a cut of steak. (Honestly, it’s pretty genius from a business standpoint)

Eat (Red) Meat

Meat, and particularly red meat, is the most nutritious food you can eat. It’s full of essential amino acids, vitamins that are easily absorbed by the human body, and a source of high-quality fat that makes the body run properly. There are so many great things in meat for the human body, it would take forever to list them all.

“But every article that I’ve read says that red meat is going to cause heart disease, give me cancer, and have me drop dead at the age of 40! There is no way that eating red meat is good!” Sorry, you’ve been lied to. Media outlets like The Guardian have received millions of dollars from vegan organizations (including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) to demonize meat consumption. James Cameron, producer of the vegan propaganda film on Netflix, “Game Changers” has a $140 million dollar investment in a vegan pea protein company. The list goes on and on…

Unfortunately, the propaganda is strong. Media outlets, useful idiots, and ideologically driven researchers are happy to push the message from their corporate overlords. Red Pill Fit will dedicate more articles on exposing these corporate interests and lies in the future, but if you want to learn more about the lies being pushed and the health benefits of eating red meat, I suggest you read the book Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf. It does a great job of tackling the vegan propaganda around eating meat (health, environment, ethics, etc.)

The application:

Make meat, in particular, red meat, the priority in your diet. If you do the other pieces laid out on this page, it’ll be much easier. You'll find that the more processed food you eat, the more processed food you want to eat and less steak you'll consume. Your hunger signals will return to normal (and not overeat or get horrible cravings), you’ll have more energy, you’ll put on muscle, and you’ll start losing weight.

Eliminate Grains from Your Diet

...and reduce your carbohydrate intake generally

Another falsehood that is touted by mainstream health and the government is that grains are an essential part of a healthy diet. This is utter BS.

Grains are not supposed to consumed by humans at all. If you were to eat some wild wheat found on a field, you would get very ill and could even die if you ate enough. The only reason we can even eat the stuff today is that it is heavily processed, refined, and cooked at high temperatures. Grains don’t want to be consumed. While animals have legs, claws, and other defense mechanisms, plants have to use a different sort of defense: chemical warfare.

Grains, and plants generally, contain toxic chemicals that are used to make the animals that feed on them sick so they won’t eat them. Humans have evolved in such a way that we can detoxify some of them but we are now getting huge amounts of them in our diet and our bodies were never meant to process the amount that we consume in the modern-day.

They’re also completely devoid of any nutrients. Most of the grains found on your supermarket shelf have to be fortified with vitamins and minerals just so it has some modicum of nutrition to it. If they weren’t fortified, eating some crackers would be like drinking a can of Coke.

Most people can do just fine eating most vegetables but some do better without them too. If you have to run to the bathroom after eating a salad, you might want to consider keeping an eye out for plants that you don’t do well with and toss them from your diet as well.

Fruits, on the other hand, actually want to be eaten. The fruit is the fleshy part of the plant that contain the seed or seeds. When an animal eats it, it transports the seed away from the mother plant and it gets “dropped” in a different location, fertilizer and all.

The application:

Get rid of the bottom of the food pyramid. It’s all junk and it’s doing nothing for you except making you hungry and adding empty calories to your diet.

(Bonus: Limit the number of starchy vegetables and fruits as well and you’ll see better results. Bananas and potatoes are the big ones but you can always check the carb count of any veggie or fruit you want to eat and make the decision yourself. These likely won’t completely kill your progress, but it’ll speed things up if you limit this as much as you feel you can.)

Get Rid of Vegetable Oils

There are a lot of lies about vegetable oils spouted by the mainstream media and “leading health organizations” about these as well. “Vegetable oils are heart-healthy,” is the main one that gets spouted.

We’re not going to get too in the weeds on this one but let’s make it simple. Only in the last 100 years or so were seed oils in the human diet. Our bodies did not evolve to eat them and there is good evidence they cause harm.

There is only one reason why vegetable oils are considered healthy and that’s because of the failed “Diet-Heart Hypothesis” touted by Ancel Keys in the 1950s.

Entrenched researchers still do everything in their power (including not publishing research that is contrary to the Diet-Heart Hypothesis) to prop up this failing idea. Saturated fat from animals has been in the human diet for millions of years and our ancestors didn’t get heart disease. Seed oils only came into the human diet in the late 1800s and we’ve seen increased rates of obesity and heart disease ever since.

If you want to read more about this subject and the history of all this, pick up the book The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz. (I’ll be writing more in-depth articles on this later as well)

Vegetable oils are highly processed poison for humans. Cyanide at least has the courtesy to kill you fairly quickly so you know to stay away from it. Seed oils, on the other hand, take years to screw up your metabolism, cause excess oxidative stress (the thing that damages your DNA and cell membranes), and work its way into your fat cells.

There are 3 major problems with vegetable oils:

• Messes with your ability to feel full and causes you to overeat
• Causes damage to the mitochondria in your cells
• Overrides your body’s “fat-limit” and allows your body to gain more fat than it otherwise would be able to.

The application:

Luckily, if you do one and two on this list, you’ve probably already gotten rid of most vegetable oils from your diet. (Seriously, those things are in tons of processed foods!). If you going to cook with oils, use “fruit oils” (extra virgin olive oil, palm oil, or coconut oil) and preferably, animal fat like butter or tallow (beef fat). Lard is ok too, but unfortunately, because pigs are fed so much corn and soy, their fat can be made up of some of the same fats that make up vegetable oils. Don’t worry too much about it right now, but something to keep in mind especially if you start stalling later.

Conclusion

If you do the above, there is a good chance you won’t have to count calories, you’ll put on muscle, lose fat, have mental clarity, and generally feel better. When you feed your body the food you are supposed to eat, you’ll start feeling the way humans are meant to feel and eat to your needs. The goal here is to get your body running on both fat and carbs. On a standard American diet, you’ll be running on carbs 90% of the time. The human body is meant to have flexibility. You want to be able to run on carbs when you need to (intense exertion or exercise) and fat for the rest. The more you use fat as fuel, the more fat you burn and less hungry you’ll feel because you have a huge supply stored all over your body.

The other goal is to remove foods that cause inflammation to your body. In a nutshell, the more inflamed your body is, the more damage is being done and more work your body has to do the heal itself. You’ll feel rundown all the time because you’re in a constant uphill battle to heal from the damage being done at every meal.

Remember, this is the base. There are more things we’re going to build on top of this later, especially if you have bigger goals or want to get even better health outcomes. For most people, this will be all you need and you’ll reap all the benefits you want. For others, you’ll want to stay tuned and you can take things to the next level. Welcome, to the real-world of diet.