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This chart shows the positive correlation of meat intake with life expectancy, and the negative correlation of crops and living longer.
In case you need more reassurances, other researchers this week published their findings on a massive survey of 400,000 people to critically review the role of vegetable consumption and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease (the #1 killer worldwide).
Their conclusions: "after adjustment for socioeconomic and lifestyle factors, residual confounding is likely to account for much, if not all, of the remaining associations."
Basically, the benefits of eating vegetables, as seen in previous epidemiological studies, are mostly if not totally, due to confounding.
TL;DR
Meat won't give you a heart attack and vegetables won't save you from one (unless your broccoli prevents you from eating donuts). Eat meat. Live Long.
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🤯 What can't be true:
The idea that decreasing meat consumption can decrease lifespan and "healthy" crops won't make you live longer, would shatter most people's worldview.
The idea that properly raised cattle, not industrial monocropping, will save our water, soil, and planet, can't even be entertained. But such is life...
Corn production uses more herbicides and insecticides and causes more runoff and water pollution than any other crop in the US. The fraction that "feeds" people is mostly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. Heavily subsidized by the ESG-, health-promoting government.
Looking at blue water (the kind that matters), cows use less than most major crops like rice:
- Conventional Beef: <300 gallons/lb
- Rice: >400 gallons/lb
*Grass Finished Beef = 50-100 gallons/lb
*Crop irrigation = 70% of the world's freshwater withdrawals
Ignoring the "apples-to-oranges" (beef-to-crops) comparison between the nutrition of a pound of beef to rice, industrial cropping compacts the soil, releases carbon, destroys biodiversity, causes loss of topsoil, and results in chemical runoff that pollutes waters.
Well-managed cattle can restore groundwater by improving the water-holding capacity of the soil via carbon sequestration, preventing rain from running off.
Save water. Save the soil (and your health)...Eat beef.
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🥇 How to stick-it-out:
Right now, Meat Health is running a 6-Week " Get Skinny Eating Steak" Fat Loss Challenge. Participants completed Week 1 (of Level 1) and here's the Week 1 Leaderboard:
I tell you this because when designing the coaching program, I not only set out to create Nutrition (Levels 1-3) and Workout (RB12) Programming to maximize fat loss, but I spent equal, if not more time designing the program to maximize the likelihood of participant success.
I am endlessly fascinated by behavioral psychology and how the "what you do" is secondary to the "how you do it." The "how" is the difference-maker between following through and creating change (success) and not.
The Challenge weaves many "how's" into the program, which I believe will not only help participants succeed, but make it fun!
- Teams and Coaching
- Levels and Tracking
- Checklists and Goals
- Competition and Prizes
What (you do) + How (you do it) = Why (you find success)
By the way, this 1st Challenge sold out pretty quickly due to the limited spots (i.e. the inherent limits that come with teams and close coaching), but we started a waitlist for the next Challenge if you want to reserve a priority spot before it opens to the public (likely end of April).
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⭕ How to stay balanced:
e·qua·nim·i·ty
"mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation."
I find it helpful to zoom out. Gain perspective.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"We live in two realities: what happens to use and our perception of what happens to us."
– Alex Lieberman
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❤️ Why is peace so hard:
While the geopolitical environment is unstable and the safety of all should be at the forefront, I want to share a parallel I noticed between trust and peace and prosperity (note: I'm not a geopolitical expert, nor am I trying to be one, so take these thoughts with a large grain of Pink Himalayan salt).
Peace is difficult because it requires so much trust. Trust that your neighbors won't invade. Trust that parties will uphold agreements. Trust that one's superior leverage won't be used against you. Peace requires a level of trust repeatedly breached throughout history. A history written in blood.
The trust-required problems of peace are similar to the trust problems that exist with prosperity (money). You must trust that it's redeemable, that it's backed and protected; trust it won't be inflated away, taxed away, taken away by those who control it. A level of trust also breached throughout history, written in the same blood.
What is the solution to peace and prosperity that requires a level of trust repeatedly abused throughout history?
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🧠 What happens when you die:
Doctors were measuring an 87-year-old man's brain activity when he suddenly had a heart attack and died. This was a first and gave insights into what might be happening in the brain at the moment of departure.
"Something we may learn from this research is: although our loved ones have their eyes closed and are ready to leave us to rest, their brains may be replaying some of the nicest moments they experienced in their lives."
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock.
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