Posted on 03/20/2009 5:18:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
March 21, 2009
The Primal diet: the silliest diet ever?
Hollywood's latest food fad is the most extreme yet. Do not try this at home
Julia Llewellyn Smith
John, a 36-year-old from London, is discussing the foods his diet allows. Carrots perhaps? Or quinoa? “I'm very keen on a raw hare carcass,” he says. “Raw mallard is good too. So's raw tongue and raw organ meat. Ideally, it'll have been sitting around for three or four weeks and be really off. Some people like it when it's liquid mush but I prefer it really off, but still so you can stick a fork in it.”
If the Pineapple, Atkins and Cabbage Soup diets seemed extreme, then consider the fanatics worldwide following the latest allegedly detoxifying trend - the Primal Diet, an eating plan consisting of raw meat, eggs and dairy - preferably past their sell-by dates.
The diet, the latest to hit Hollywood, was founded by Aajonus (pronounced oj-enus) Vonderplanitz, a 62-year-old nutritionist from California - and it can be only a matter of time before it's endorsed by a twig-thin starlet.
The theory is that raw fats bind to the toxins in the body, which are then more readily transported out of the system.
At its most basic level adherents exist on 95 per cent raw meat, including chicken (made more palatable with a marinade of herbs and spices). When they eat out they can rely on culinary classics such as sashimi, steak tartare and beef carpaccio.
The remaining 5 per cent is made up with vegetable juices and low-carbohydrate fruits, such as avocados. True aficionados, however, favour “high” meat (so called because of Vonderplanitz's claims that it inspires a natural high), with a small sideor
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Well, at least the parasites will keep them thin. Maybe that’s the point.
At least the RoadKill Café cooks the road kill...
Well on a diet like that they will be pooping and ralphing a lot.
Only a slight improvement from standard British fare.
You really ARE too rich and too thin if you even have the TIME to contemplate this stupidity.
Reminds me of the wealthy women in my store some days; nothing to do and all day to do it with unlimited funds to support it...though they waste your time and buy NOTHING!
And in case anyone was wondering, or wanted to give me GRANT MONEY to research this; LETTUCE is a ‘gateway drug’ for Blue Cheese salad dressing.
*SNORT*
I’m with you.
I prefer Bleu Cheese (spread on pretzels *\;-).
Congress too. And SCOTUS & POTUS. Let's start with a cleaned slate.
Nice to see a fad that isn’t vegan at the core. Flattened muskrat that’s been on the road for a week. Sun cooked. Yummy.
I couldn’t remember if it was Blue, or Blu or Blew or Bleu!
And I wasn’t about to go to the fridge and reveal my STASH, Man, LOL!
I am cracking up that this guy calls himself a nutritionist! LOL!
LOL. You really can’t make this stuff up, can you?
Guess this new diet will eliminate their needing the colon cleanse now, eh?
LOL — when one’s wife has both English and French as native languages you learn these things. (I’m not doing as well with her other languages.)
Along with their need for oxygen if they keep it up.
“(I’m not doing as well with her other languages.)”
You mean the one where she talks directly to you in YOUR native tongue, while looking you in the eye and she tells you EXACTLY what she wants and needs and expects from you and you STILL can’t ‘hear’ her?
Yeah. That IS rough. Happens at my house ALL the time, LOL! :)
just goes to corroborate what many people believe about the oddity of Hollywood
She made (for) me an appointment with an audiologist. *\;-)
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