Our meat is up to 35% meat!

According to a class-action suit filed on Friday in federal court Taco Bell's "Seasoned Ground beef" does not contain enough beef. According to the suit it is only 35% beef. The rest is "other ingredients including water, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent and modified corn starch."
Article here.
35% of their meat is meat. Just over 1/3.
If that's what's in their "ground beef" what is in the "nacho cheese sauce?"

This is why I suggest to my clients to eat out as little as possible, and if they must, to go to small local restaurants. Large chains have long supply lines, and are all about hook (salt, fat, sugar combo that releases all kinds of feel-good chemicals in our brains) and using the lowest cost ingredients they can. Frankly, they don't care about your health. They care about their bottom line, and buying quality ingredients, lean well produced meats, and quality fats are bad for the bottom line.
More over I don't trust that the ingredients listed for their foods are exactly what is in their food (see above). In this case, someone who is trying to eat paleo, or low carb gets a giant dose of wheat, oats, maltodextrin (sugar) and corn starch. It wrecks their diet and they don't lose weight. The dieter "tried that diet and it didn't work." In reality they didn't. There were all kinds of starches and sugars hidden in their food.
The only way to know what you're eating is buy foods that don't need a label (meat, vegetables, fruits) and prepare them yourself. Failing that, eat at small shops and buy foods in a recognizable form (if it looks like a chicken, it's probably a chicken and not a soy bean).

As an aside, this goes for folks who are trying to put on weight too. Go to your local diner and you'll get more calories than at a fast food joint and you won't feel like re-heated crap afterward. Hell, go to your grandmother's house, and she'll put some weight on you for free.

Mahalo.

RIP Smiling Jack

Jack LaLanne
9/26/1914 - 1/23/2011
"I can't die, it would ruin my image."

Interesting times.

Greetings true believers! It is I your humble author, back from the mostly dead as it were.
I am sorry about the lack of output. Things at work, training clients, the baby, selling my condo, working on the new house and the genuinely awful goings on in Arizona have stifled my creative juices.
I am still on the same lifting schedule.
I am still dropping weight, all be it more slowly.
I have been teaching the no-gi classes on Saturdays at the academy.
My cup runneth over all with good things, but we all only have so much bandwidth, and our brains and bodies cannot differentiate between stressors, so training stress, working stress, baby stress, diet stress and writing stress all come out of the same bucket.
Have no fear, I will be forthcoming with something.. it may be more of this drivel, but I will be back to writing at least every few days.
Until then:



Mahalo.

It's Resolution baby!

I a great long post about new year's resolutions written up, but frankly it's crap. So I'm not posting it. here's the short version: you don't need resolutions, you need a plan. Come up with a plan and follow it for several weeks. Then see how things are going, and make a new plan. Repeat.

I hope you had a great new year.

More posts with actual content to come!

Mahalo.