Archive for June, 2010

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Dr. Ron discusses nutrition in the 1950’s

Dr. Ron discusses nutrition in the 1960’s

Dr. Ron discusses nutrition in the 1970’s

Dr. Ron discusses nutrition in the 1980’s

Dr. Ron discusses nutrition in the 1990’s

Dr. Ron discusses nutrition in the 2000’s

Dr. Ron discusses women’s & children’s health

Dr. Ron discusses the role of nutrition and supplements
in endurance sports – PART I

Dr. Ron discusses the role of nutrition and supplements
in endurance sports – PART II

Dr. Ron discusses cod liver oil and x-factor butter oil

Dr. Ron discusses supplements

Our Farm Mascot “Gree” Eats Organ Delight

The purpose of this blog is to share my ideas about how to restore and maintain health through optimal nutrition. Over the years I have evolved a diet that works very well for me and for most of the people who are willing to follow it. The way I eat is quite simple, though radical in that I’ve eliminated many foods

I eat only animal foods, vegetables, and occasionally a little wild or brown rice, or toasted buckwheat. My animal foods include grassfed meat, wild seafood, eggs, as well as raw milk, cream and butter from grassfed animals. My vegetables are mostly big green salads with onions, olives, dulse (seaweed) and some cooked greens. I use olive oil and raw apple cider vinegar on my salads, and lots of raw butter on everything else. Most of my food is raw or very lightly cooked (including eggs, which are a great source of raw fat and protein). I braise my meat on a grill, but it’s raw most of the way through.

That’s really about it. In the summer I have some berries, but aside from that, no other fruit. I include no bread or any other flour products, sweets of any kind, or nightshades (potatoes, peppers, eggplants or tomatoes). Nothing except what I have described above, and food supplements I will begin discussing below.

I do this because when I eat anything else, my body gives me disagreeable and unmistakable signals. I’m not alone; like me, many of my patients over the years have recovered and maintained their health only with this simple program.

I believe the reason this works so well is because my diet closely mimics the primitive, pre-civilization hunter-gatherer diet to which human beings adapted over the long course of evolution. While raw milk, cream and butter were not a part of that diet, I’ve found that these foods work well for me and for most people, and provide essential fats hard to get enough of in most animal foods available today.

I complement the diet with several food supplements of critical importance. These include our organ and gland supplements and cod liver oil on a daily basis, in addition to others I’ll discuss over time.

When people follow this program carefully, most health problems “mysteriously” disappear. This is really no mystery. Humans are designed to function in health when the natural human diet is carefully followed.

I’m interested in your comments, but I don’t wish to debate what constitutes a good diet and what doesn’t. This blog really is for people who are interested in what I have learned in a lifetime of studying health and diet and would like to build their health using the disciplined regime of diet and supplements I have followed for many years.

Here are a few examples of how I eat. In the morning, I might have six or eight eggs – “shooters,” one at a time, raw in a glass, Rocky style.  An alternative might be a couple of glasses of raw milk, or eggs and milk blended together. Around midday, celery and carrot sticks and pemmican; or cooked greens and leftover lightly baked salmon. In the evening, a big green salad, followed in an hour or so by a big steak with butter and a couple of ounces of raw cream for dessert.

A lot of people reading this will think raw meat and raw eggs are both dangerous and unappetizing, which is certainly the conventional wisdom. I do my best to secure my food from the best naturally raised sources, but there is always a certain risk when eating raw food, whether it is sushi, an undercooked steak, or lettuce or spinach. I believe the benefits are well worth the risk, which I consider minimal. As for unappetizing – well, one gets used to things. I’m willing to go to any length to maintain my health.

In future postings, I’ll respond to some of your comments and elaborate on my diet and supplements. I’ll write more about the ideas behind my diet and why I’ve learned to avoid many common foods and eat most of my food raw. Eating this way requires a certain attitude and frame of mind, and I may write about that too, and why I think food provides the building blocks the rest of life is built upon.

Coming soon!