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The Primal Diet: The Silliest Diet Ever? Hollywood's Latest Food Fad Is The Most Extreme Yet.
London Times ^ | March 20, 2009

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2stupid4words; diets
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1 posted on 03/20/2009 5:18:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Well, at least the parasites will keep them thin. Maybe that’s the point.


2 posted on 03/20/2009 5:20:04 PM PDT by OpusatFR (We can give up any pretense of having a government for and by the people after Coronation Day.)
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To: Steelfish

At least the RoadKill Café cooks the road kill...


3 posted on 03/20/2009 5:21:03 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 60 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Steelfish
The theory is that raw fats bind to the toxins in the body, which are then more readily transported out of the system.

Well on a diet like that they will be pooping and ralphing a lot.

4 posted on 03/20/2009 5:22:43 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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To: Steelfish

Only a slight improvement from standard British fare.


5 posted on 03/20/2009 5:23:00 PM PDT by counterpunch (Kenya has two presidents. America has Zero.)
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To: Steelfish
Yes, Hollywood should fully embrace this diet. Bon appetite!
6 posted on 03/20/2009 5:25:35 PM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: Steelfish

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*


7 posted on 03/20/2009 5:26:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: DTogo

I’m with you.


8 posted on 03/20/2009 5:27:51 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
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.

I prefer Bleu Cheese (spread on pretzels *\;-).

9 posted on 03/20/2009 5:33:51 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: Steelfish
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10 posted on 03/20/2009 5:35:11 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: DTogo
Yes, Hollywood should fully embrace this diet. Bon appetite!

Congress too. And SCOTUS & POTUS. Let's start with a cleaned slate.

11 posted on 03/20/2009 5:35:18 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: Steelfish

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.


12 posted on 03/20/2009 5:36:11 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: sionnsar

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!


13 posted on 03/20/2009 5:37:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Steelfish
"Aajonus (pronounced oj-enus) Vonderplanitz, a 62-year-old nutritionist from California"

I am cracking up that this guy calls himself a nutritionist! LOL!

14 posted on 03/20/2009 5:38:15 PM PDT by BossLady ("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

LOL. You really can’t make this stuff up, can you?

Guess this new diet will eliminate their needing the colon cleanse now, eh?


15 posted on 03/20/2009 5:42:42 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.)


16 posted on 03/20/2009 5:43:25 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: Paved Paradise
Guess this new diet will eliminate their needing the colon cleanse now, eh?

Along with their need for oxygen if they keep it up.

17 posted on 03/20/2009 5:50:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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To: sionnsar

“(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! :)


18 posted on 03/20/2009 5:53:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Steelfish

just goes to corroborate what many people believe about the oddity of Hollywood


19 posted on 03/20/2009 5:54:36 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

She made (for) me an appointment with an audiologist. *\;-)


20 posted on 03/20/2009 5:55:58 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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