Hail to the Dinosaurs!
2015 is here, and everyone's thinking about
diet and nutrition.
That's both good and bad.
It's good because diet and nutrition works
hand in hand with your training to build strength
and health.
It's bad because there's so much crazy stuff
floating around -- and it's very easy to get
caught up in the diet and nutrition nonsense,
just as it's very easy to get caught up in the
training nonsense that floats around.
So I'm going to share more diet and nutrition
tips this year than in previous years.
Starting with a little tip about Irish green kelp.
Back in the day, gym owner Vince Gironda
always urged bodybuilders to take kelp tablets.
He believed that the iodine and other minerals
in the kelp tablets sped up the metabolism
and helped carve razor sharp definition.
That may or may not be true. I took kelp
tablets by the handful, and they never did
anything for me.
But fast forward to January 5, 2014. As in,
yesterday.
Trudi is making soup stock from two Dino-
sized duck breasts. She's had it simmering for
over 24 hours, with garlic, onions and spices.
It smells great.
She wants to add some turkey meatballs, so
we run over to the Root Cellar to grab some
ground turkey.
The Root Cellar is a very cool place. It's an old-
fashioned corner grocery store stocked entirely
with local foods. Everything is grown or raised
within 150 miles of Louisville. And much of it is
organic in the true sense of the word -- not big
box organic, but what gardening guru Eliot
Coleman calls "deep organic." Meaning it
comes from local growers who put their
hearts and souls into what they grow.
When we get there, we remember that we're
low on eggs, so we grab a dozen.
"You'll like them," says the friendly young man
working the cash register. "They're extra big."
He opens the carton and shows us.
And he's right.
These are ostrich eggs. At least, they look like
ostrich eggs. They're enormous.
"Why are they so big?" we ask.
"The farmer started feeding Irish green kelp to
his chickens. As soon as he did, they started
laying these really big eggs."
Which shows that it's a good idea to get to
know your local farmers. And to ask this kind
of question. You learn some interesting things.
When we got home, we weighed some regular
size eggs from another local farmer and
compared them to the giant eggs.
The regular size eggs weighed 1.8 ounces
apiece.
The giant eggs weighed 2.8 ounces.
That means the giant eggs are more than 60
percent higher in protein than the regular size
eggs.
I can only assume that the eggs are also much
higher in minerals -- and in omega 3 fatty acids.
How could they not be if the chickens eat Irish
green kelp every day?
So here's the diet and nutrition tip of the day:
Irish green kelp.
But not in tablets. In your food.
Try looking for local eggs from a farmer who
feeds Irish green kelp to his chickens.
And look for other foods from local growers that
give their animals and their veggies the same
sort of attention and the same sort of high-
powered nutrition. The more nutrition you
get in the food you eat, the better your
results.
And besides -- Vince Gironda would approve.
As always, thanks for reading and have a great
day. If you train today, make it a good one!
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. I cover sensible diet and nutrition in detail
in Knife, Fork, Muscle -- which is printed, in stock
and ready to ship -- and getting great reviews
from readers around the world:
http://brookskubik.com/dinosaur_nutrition.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses -- and t-shirts,
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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Keep your training
basic and simple. Do the same with your diet."
-- Brooks Kubik
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