I don't consider myself a Paleo poster child but I have had some good results, with my whole animal plus coconut butter approach.

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I don't really want to post a bunch of erotic pinup photos, but if that's what it takes to draw attention to this diet, then it would be worth the humiliation.
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I use to joke with my friends that I should audition for a role in the Twilight movies, seeing that I am a real vampire.

I can't wait until I look this good. It's coming. I promise me.

Pemmican is half-raw (ground?) meat plus half sickly, hideous rendered/cooked animal fat. It looks like a big block of  compressed sawdust. http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=746&tbm=isch&tbnid=4LDHxJGHLOKbEM:&imgrefurl=http://bltadventure.blogspot.com/2008/05/pemmican-bars-revisited.html&docid=ukJBFzS4y4UFaM&imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/521124432_d2300c2eb7.jpg&w=500&h=375&ei=jFG6T9fuNYTO4QTzr-XuCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=298&vpy=146&dur=213&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=116&ty=72&sig=105855756092861807094&page=1&tbnh=128&tbnw=187&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:74

It's dried raw meat (think: unflavored jerky) pounded to almost powder mixed with equal parts by weight rendered fat. If the fat is rendered at a low enough temperature, the vitamin content is not damaged. The fat needs to be heated only to the point where it can shed its water as its the water content that causes it to go rancid. It'll keep for years if nothing else is added to it and if it's kept covered in a dry, cool place.

It used to be a frontier staple (also called "indian sausage") and if the fat is rendered properly (not too hot) you can live on it alone at least throughout a season (like, say, winter) and some say indefinitely. I'm not willing to try indefinitely, and I'm sure I'd get sick of eating only that for 3 months straight, but it's not as disgusting as Tyler makes it out to be at all. A lot of people like it quite a bit.

Edit: Due to FDA requirements, the commercial stuff actually is as nasty as Tyler describes.

Edit of Edit: So make your own if you want to try it out for yourself. Lex Rooker here has a pretty good guide on it as well as plans for über-cheap cardboard + lightbulb dehydrators.

I had a heart attack less than 2 years ago. I'll be watching this topic. I haven't got myself move completely over yet, but I'm making progress on the diet. Most of the garbage is gone.

My own recovery was very fast just because of my nature, but I'm hoping going raw zero (or just raw paleo) will prevent me from ever again having to tell my wife that we're going to the hospital, right now, and that she's driving.

Sounds good.

If you don't like how they taste, you can use the leftovers for tanning leather...

Spose that's one case that's pro-supplementation.

Cool stuff. I heard about this a couple of years ago and my wife was actually interested in it!

If I had a couple of hundred acres I'd be all over it.

Russell ran for nomination of President of the United States under the Libertarian Party in 1987 and came in second to Ron Paul.

Awesome.

Just last year I think he also went with a delegation of a bunch of other tribal / post-AIM leaders to Washington, D.C. and I think abroad drumming up support for a secession of a "Nation of Lakota" carved out of parts of N/S Dakota, Nebraska, and I think part of Montana. They were offering citizenship of Lakota for anyone willing to move there and renounce their US citizenship, genetic native or no.

Ballsy, I like it. If I thought for a second it had a chance I'd likely have taken them up on it.

All modern 8-12 education really serves to do nowadays is keep kids out of the job market and off the street. Doesn't really do that great a job for the latter, but keeps them out of jobs pretty good.

I applaud self-directed education. Kids who learn what they want to learn learn it well and learn it quickly. I would never have finished high school (i.e., passed the GED test) were it not for self-paced study, but I'd have a happier life if I'd have been able to learn the things that made a difference in my own personal situation. Kudos to them on that score.

Non-tasty. No, did not like.

Grows wild in Florida and is related to agave. Aloe gets big, but flower stalks don't get more than about 4' tall. Agave stalks can get more than 12'.

Both taste rather nasty, IMO, even wild.

Yeah, them waking up at 2 am is just stupid. I think wild humans fasted anyway because they didn't always have food.

Most of them, when food wasn't available, picked up and moved to where it was available. Not all of them, of course, and the vast majority of them also knew which local plants were edible, too. I don't think any of them fasted involuntarily all that often.

Anyway... those people's house is absolutely disgusting. They're not as unattractive as some people said, but good personal hygiene goes a LONG way toward an appearance of beauty and they're gonna need to work on that a little bit.

I wonder how much of that video is pure propaganda. They made everything look disgusting.

One of us should turn them on to pemmican. They could use a lot less plastic that way. Cleaner.

- Lincoln won the war by printing greenbacks

I've heard that this is the real reason why he was assassinated. I'd believe it. There is a small but powerful minority hell-bent on keeping control over the currency out of public hands.

I have the movie saved but I haven't had enough time by myself to watch it yet.

High calcium is associated with heart disease, and magnesium is the best antidote to that. Chemically they counteract each other, in the body.

Magnesium? I would have guessed phosphorous. My reasoning is that I used to have a Nile monitor lizard for which I would dust prey items with a calcium/phosphorous mix. If the mix was off he could've developed a host of weird diseases associated with calcium imbalance issues.

I know the biochemistry is way different, but I still would have associated phosphorous for humans as well and not magnesium. Bone loss problems come to mind.