Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 10/21/23

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

❌ What's wrong:

Most nutrition advise is wrong.

And another fallacy: Chicken is the "healthiest" meat...

🍗 Is chicken the healthiest meat:

Americans eat 65 pounds of chicken per year. It's often one of the healthiest foods in a person's diets. But it isn't the healthiest meat.

In the 1940s, chicken was expensive.

The average chicken was $3....that's $30 today when adjusted for inflation.

A&P, the country's largest supermarket at the time, wanted to turn this delicacy into a staple. So, they devised specialized breeding and feeding to grow bigger chickens, faster.

It worked...

The average chicken now grows 2X as fast and weighs 3.5X more.

But there's no free lunch here.

This is what you need to know about eating chicken.

🐔 What they eat, you eat:

My biggest concern around chicken is the fat quality.

Chickens are meant to eat a wide range of foods such as grass and bugs, but conventional chickens are primarily fed corn and soy to fatten them up as fast as possible.

This not only fattens them, but changes their fat.

The omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of modern chickens can be as high as 20:1, more than 3X that of pasture-raised chicken. That's up there with seed oils, which I believe play a primary role in obesity and chronic disease due to their high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs).

Next week, I'm going to have a lot more for you on seed oils, PUFAs, and weight gain / disease, so stay tuned!

💡How to do the splits (i.e. form a new a habit):

To form a new habit, tie it to a routine you already do.

Decide on the habit you want to form (make it simple)
Decide which habit you currently do that you can tie it into

I'm using this formula to learn to do the splits.

Before lunch, I already had a habit of doing a walk around the neighborhood. Now I'm tying my stretch routine to my walk.

The walk triggers the new habit — stretching. It also flows naturally as a walk warms me up for the stretches.

Progress pics coming next year :)

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”

– Jerzy Gregork

📊 Why the market hasn't crashed:

I thought this was a great overview of the current state of the market.

Combine this with Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, calling a "flight to quality" on live TV.

😂 How to laugh over text:

In case you are texting with 11-26 year olds (Gen Z), this is the newest way to laugh over text: IJBOL.

As always, it's an absolute pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!

Kevin

P.S.

I’m still trying to figure out what IDK means, people keep texting me it, but when I ask them what it means they say I don’t know.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health, LLC

NED LLC (The Snore Solution)

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