Joe Fries' Blog #1

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Joe Fries' Blog #1 (http://thelannetwork.com/news/article/54)

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[Araneatrox]

TLN doing a crusade against Unhealthy foods?

I should probs take some advice away from this. I went to uni, lived like a king and i am now paying for it. I will take you up on your eating plan Joe.

[heuer89]

Very good article Joe!

I know that the way I eat isn't good for me but there is no way that I would ever give it up. If eating food that tastes good to me is the trade-off to being completely healthy then so be it...

[Monk3y]

I read about 90% of the article and am really considering this whole diet plan dealeo once I move out on my own next year. I am going to try and start a little bit now but I work at Wendy's so it's gonna be really hard going from delicious fatty foods to healthy food. Will I convert to vegan/vegetarian? No. I enjoy my meats and will find a way to integrate it within your diet plan. Whether it be once or twice a week or something. Or maybe I'll only eat meat on days that I plan on working out. I'll definitely be putting more thought into this whole diet thing though. When I was a couple years younger I was actually built and well in shape and over the last couple years have became rather out of shape. Not fat but slowly going down that path. I miss being in shape and having all that energy I used to have which is why my new years resolution is to get back in shape which is why I hopefully can manage to start working your diet plan into that schedule. Anyways, thanks a ton for writing the article and if I have any questions about dieting and such I will be sure to ask you :D

[Justin21]

This was a great article!

[-ironman]

Pretty interesting.

[rasha fasha]

So when I saw this on the front page I immediately thought are you serious? haha, but as I began reading this was not a bad read at all and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Very good read 5/5

[forefront]

While I disagree with some of the things that you said, I will agree that this diet will cause anyone to lose weight and become more healthy.

[ThisGuyPwnage]

cool stuff.. i was getting on the big side until i went to boot.. but since my knee injury ive slowly been gaining small amounts of weight and i gotta watch what i eat to stay in regs

[KRILLIN]

Joe better not be trying to take over my territory! JK!

[Fierce]

I don't regret the Taco Bell I had last night for one second.

[MichaelMongrel]

I wish I had the motivation to do something like this. But to me, veggies don't taste amazing. It sucks that it works that way in my mind, but I eat whatever I think tastes good. So I guess if I die at 50, so be it.

[xisnipe4food]

see now the only problem i see with this is that i love steak. and i love good food. and if im only living once, i want some good fat foods sometimes. like good pasta. i always add a salad to my meals but im not gonna go overboard with all crappy food. i gotta have my ribeye fix once a week.

[Roastbeef_253]

I have to agree with some of the other posts in saying that this is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Especially, when you still live at home :) I have always planned on taking a route similar to this as soon as I am in a position to control my own eating habits and cooking, which would be at some point that I am on my own and able to do this without having to worry about an entire family right away.

[Kamikazeewoks]

Great Article Joe Fries!

[KFred]

Good read. I worked for a raw foodist author 2 years ago. He had raw vegetable/fruit juice everyday for me. To me, it tasted horrible, but nothing a nose plug and chug didn't beat ;). The most important thing I learned from him was that we need living food in our diets.

[Kwame]

Joe two questions....Are you available for full time employment at my house and two am i allowed to drink coffee? http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/coffee-new-health-food check it out and let me know?

[RMaroney7]

Lean meat is an excellent source of protein, B vitamins, iron, and zinc. And according to a 2008 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein is the single most effective diet for both weight loss and cardiovascular health. Ever since the first traces of human life, we have anatomically been omnivores. Even if you go back to our closest relative in the animal kingdom the chimpanzee, they kill and eat plenty of mammals. I don't suggest solely eating meat but I believe a balance between healthy meat and veggies/fruits is most beneficial. However I would support vegetarians on the sole basis that they disagree on eating meat based off of their own ethical/ecological standards.

[chewmonsta]

I always thought that vegans were people who got together to watch movies of animals getting killed?

[chris_cr33p]

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm food

[Forbidd3n]

good read, however i could not give up steaks and other meats.

[vontoxic]

I was vegan for 2 months and vegetarian for 6. During that time I felt so starved, tired, and sleepy and was not doing so hot in school. What I did benefit from that time though was learning to have a taste for wider variety of foods. I am now back to eating what I used to but in smaller portions and more variety. Now I'm neither fat nor skinny. I'd say I am average.

Also look at Asian cultures. Mostly thin. Why? They are taught to eat a variety of foods from the time they are very young and they eat small portions of a lot of things. look at western cultures, Huge portions and not much variety.

[Joe Fries]

Lean meat is an excellent source of protein, B vitamins, iron, and zinc. And according to a 2008 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein is the single most effective diet for both weight loss and cardiovascular health. Ever since the first traces of human life, we have anatomically been omnivores. Even if you go back to our closest relative in the animal kingdom the chimpanzee, they kill and eat plenty of mammals. I don't suggest solely eating meat but I believe a balance between healthy meat and veggies/fruits is most beneficial. However I would support vegetarians on the sole basis that they disagree on eating meat based off of their own ethical/ecological standards.

Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla):

This subspecies consumes parts of at least 97 plant species. About 67% of their diet is fruit, 17% is leaves, seeds and stems and 3% is termites and caterpillars.

Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei):
This subspecies consumes parts of at least 142 plant species and only 3 types of fruit (there is hardly any fruit available due to the high altitude. About 86% of their diet is leaves, shoots, and stems, 7% is roots, 3% is flowers, 2% is fruit, and 2% ants, snails, and grubs.

Besides the Ants that they eat out of each other's hair, I'd say that gorillas are pretty close to a vegan diet.

There is no way that study is correct unless they didn't specify the type of protein. This study could then be saying that low carbs and high PLANT protein are the keys to weight loss and good cardiovascular health. You could not convince me that meat builds a healthy heart, because it is simply not true. The only vitamin that is hard to get for vegans is B12 which is abundant in meat, other than that, all other vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that are absent in meat, and most of the american diet, are found in vegetation.

You cannot lose weight any faster than going on a raw vegan diet, I am sure of that.

The whole protein thing is totally blown out of proportion and I don't know if I covered this, but you actually need less protein when you become vegetarian/vegan. Meat also loses 50% of its protein when it is cooked, and then more when you digest it because it isn't easy to digest like spirulina is.

I don't have a problem with people that eat meat and I support your statement that a healthy balance of fruits and veggies is beneficial, but I believe that a RAW Vegan diet is the ultimate diet in terms of health. :)

Thanks for the responses, everyone. Keep them coming and ask some questions for my next blog. I'll answer anything from gaming to vegan Waffle recipes!

:D

[Joe Fries]

Joe two questions....Are you available for full time employment at my house and two am i allowed to drink coffee? http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/coffee-new-health-food check it out and let me know?

From the research I have done, coffee is only good if you use it for an enema. lol Apparently coffee enemas are all the rage in the cleansing world right now because the caffeine stimulates the colon and you get some serious relief.

So I guess the answer is yes, you can, butt you can't use your mouth. hahaha

As for my hours, my schedule will be something like: Class from 2pm-4pm Mon-Thurs and 4-6 Tues and Wed? I think I might be able to mix in a full time job. ;)

[Kwame]

From the research I have done, coffee is only good if you use it for an enema. lol Apparently coffee enemas are all the rage in the cleansing world right now because the caffeine stimulates the colon and you get some serious relief.

So I guess the answer is yes, you can, butt you can't use your mouth. hahaha

As for my hours, my schedule will be something like: Class from 2pm-4pm Mon-Thurs and 4-6 Tues and Wed? I think I might be able to mix in a full time job. ;)

Perfect! Will the Joe Fries catering truck be at the gaming house next weekend? Or are you back here before then?

[evilryu]

After reading this article, I've come to the conclusion that Joe Fries is now attending Vegan School to obtain psychic vegan abilities.

[itwuzmagik]

Holy crap that blog was amazing. I learned so much, and honestly I was surprised to find out that I do some of the things that were prescribed in the blog :) Thanks joe for posting this, I am really going to give this a great amount of effort and adapt this into my lifestyle.
P.S Hurry up and accept my F/R on Xbl ;)

[BesTMaN]

I just threw up a little after reading this... hehehe, jk.

Good read, i need to talk to ya soon then.

[Joe Fries]

Joe, can you link us to some medically-backed knowledge sources? I'd love to know where you claims come from - it sounds very compelling but I want to see it from valid sources. Thank you for taking the time to help the community live better - clearly a lot of the community are living unhealthy lifestyles.

EDIT: I don't mean what you have at the bottom of your page. I mean multiple references to sources such as medical journals. Thanks.

Here you go.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/

Andrew Saul is one of the main speakers in the film "Food Matters" and his site has a massive amount of medical journals that aren't found in the US National Library of medicine. The US refuses to publish these journals because they deal with treatments that would not generate any money for the multi-billion dollar a year cancer industry. I will try to publish another blog on Vitamin therapy and alternative cancer treatments going more in depth before I go back to SD on the 12th.

[Sinstar94]

Edit: Actually, never mind on that question.
Interesting read though

[RagingChickens]

Good aritcle, and like someone else said, I do disagree with something.

On the topic of meat, I don't understand all of this stuff about it being so horrible for you. When the human race first began, meat was what we ate and that was what our bodies are used to. This is still true today. My example, the Atkins Diet. Now yes I know how it "doesn't work" because you put all the weight back on after, but the diet proves that humans function perfectly on a diet of pure meat. That was what we were in the beginning, and are today.

That is the only real problem I have with the vegan diet. Otherwise, it seems like it would work for anynody who would want to give it a shot.

[SaLoT]

Good aritcle, and like someone else said, I do disagree with something.

On the topic of meat, I don't understand all of this stuff about it being so horrible for you. When the human race first began, meat was what we ate and that was what our bodies are used to. This is still true today. My example, the Atkins Diet. Now yes I know how it "doesn't work" because you put all the weight back on after, but the diet proves that humans function perfectly on a diet of pure meat. That was what we were in the beginning, and are today.

That is the only real problem I have with the vegan diet. Otherwise, it seems like it would work for anynody who would want to give it a shot.

False are teeth are not design to tear leat alone eat meat, the only way is if it is cook.

Are teeth are more design for vegetables and fruits

[Phoenix]

people just wanna live there lives and there gonna do whatever they want to be happy. people might not live as long eating the way they do but there still gonna live an average life. if eating the way you do makes you happy than thats cool, i respect that. its all about what you believe in and what you wanna do.

[F1ava Dave]

Why is this on a gaming website?

[mrkillboy]

Why is this on a gaming website?

It's from Mr. and Mrs. P.'s son. Also, this isn't just a gaming website. It's a community, and also some what of a family.

[Gravity]

great read. Really interesting stuff. I had no idea about some of this.

[sweetpotatoe]

Awesome read. I'm a vegan and it was pretty exciting (and surprising) to see an article like this up here. I loved it!

[Ryyyyan]

I understand where he's coming from, and it's his beliefs, but I would never change. I didn't lose 65lbs, and start lifting for nothing. Getting ripped is my life goal, and nothing you could tell me, show me, etc would ever stop the motivation I have.

Also, milk <3
Haha, but good read though. Some of the foods sounded tasty!

[Caesar]

advice from an older gamer to younger gamers (im 34 btw)
when i was in hs playing football and basketball bulking up for football meant eating lots of carbs, when you are young its easy to burn off calories, but as you get older if you carry those same eating habits, when your metabolism slows down it will catch up with you. All the way till i was 25 i was 6'1 190, once i got a sit down job and became less active in sports my eating habits caught up with me and in 2 years i went all the way up to 250. after that it has became a struggle to keep the weight down.

So eat right when your young, take the extra minutes to make something at home as opposed to getting fast food. it will benefit you in the long run.

[Mrs P]

Great Story, Great Advice-very true!