The Liberation Diet: Lose Weight Eating Real Food, Not Industrial Waste
This post is part of Real Food Wednesday, hosted this week at Cheeseslave. Please visit Real Food Wednesday and share your posts about real food. (Funny that Kelly the Kitchen Kop wrote a post today about losing weight, too. Great minds think alike I guess!)
Fitness trainer Kevin Brown and nutritionist Annette Presley have written a new book called The Liberation Diet about how to lose weight and get healthy eating real food. I’ve read the book and I love it. It’s full of great information on how to eat healthfully and get slim and real-life testimonials by people who have followed the program and dropped excess weight.
And not with soy shakes, rice cakes or processed TV dinners. This eating plan prescribes real butter, bacon, cheese, and burgers. Now that’s my kind of diet!
Even if you are not trying to lose weight, I think you will really enjoy reading this book. It’s full of fascinating stories about how industrial waste turned into food. It tells the tale of Crisco, originally made from hydrogenated cottonseed oil, came on the market in 1911. And the history of milk, why they started pasteurizing it, and why pasteurized milk is another industrial waste product.
Kevin Brown says it was around 1900 that artificial food was invented. He says that 100 years ago, we didn’t have a problem with obesity. In The Liberation Diet, they recommend throwing out the food pyramid and going back to the way we ate a century ago.
Kevin calls real food a “whipping boy”. He says that modern foods like margarine, shortening, and soy milk are industrial waste products that are extremely inexpensive to produce and very lucrative for the companies that make them. Unfortunately, they are also ruining our health and making us fat.
You have to take an industrial waste product, or by-product or trash, something very worthless or inexpensive, call it a health food, put it in a nice package, and then attack the competition relentlessly. That’s the formula.
Watch this great TV interview with co-authors Kevin Brown and Annette Presley talking about raw milk, cholesterol, butter, and food lobbyists pushing industrial waste products marketed as food. Finally the truth is getting out there!
I highly recommend The Liberation Diet. If you are struggling to lose weight, do yourself a favor and get a copy. To order a copy see my resources page. You can get a hardcover shipped to you or just download the PDF. You can also download a free excerpt of the book.
Photo credit: Crisco ad from 1914, Vintage Dish on Flickr
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03/06/2009 at 6:40 am Permalink
Hi Ann, sounds like a great book! Not only do the invented foods that make up such a large part of the modern diet cause obesity and disease, but many of the popular diet programs actually recommend these foods. For example, I was just telling someone about how Weight Watchers gives 14 points to a small 8 ounce steak but only 3 points to a can of beer. Give me a break!
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03/06/2009 at 6:46 am Permalink
Haha Vin! I know. And if you look at the history, it’s amazing how these industrial waste products infiltrated and now completely saturated our food supply.
I went to the regular grocery store yesterday to buy some stuff to make laundry detergent and I was amazed at how little real food they had. Aisles and aisles of soybean oil, corn oil, and high fructose corn syrup. Thanks to all those food lobbyists.
Please add your latest post to Real Food Wednesday — I just posted Mr. Linky moments ago. I love Julia Ross’s books! So many people are on SSRIs it’s just ridiculous. Big pharma goes hand in hand with industrial food.
03/06/2009 at 7:01 am Permalink
There’s so much industrial waste in our foods. The one that burns me up more than anything is infant formula, though. It is LOADED with industrial waste: corn syrup solids, lye, GMO soy garbage, dairy industry waste. And we’re feeding it to our babies!
Jenny @ Nourished Kitchen’s last blog post..Fried Octopus (Better Than It Sounds!)
03/06/2009 at 7:20 am Permalink
Great video! My favorite parts:
1. When he said that he’d have clients working out like crazy and not lose anything for 6 months. Then they’d eat real food and work out only moderately and it worked every time.
2. Annette said that as a nutritionist she realized she was teaching people how to die (with the conventional dietary recommendations), and now she wants to spend her life teaching others how to live.
3. I didn’t know God ate butter and milk in Genesis 18!!!
I told Kent as I was writing my post last night that the information we’re putting out there is life changing – if only MORE people were catching on, but it’s happening! The Truth is always life changing and as you said, it’s getting out!
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03/06/2009 at 8:31 am Permalink
I’m so happy to see this! Especially the Biblical references at the end. So many Christians forget that God told us how to eat a long time ago. God doesn’t want us eating his garbage disposals. Thats why things like pork, shellfish, and buzzards are forvidden. They eat rotten tainted diseased things so we don’t have to. When we eat them we undo all that work they did to make our world cleaner. I go out of my way to avoid pork especially. Its so common you don’t even realize what its all in. Ever tried having a pork free meal at the Olive garden? Its practically impossible. I don’t remember the exact verse, but there is a place in the bible where God says that people who eat swine disgust him. I’m gonna go find it and get back to you.
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03/06/2009 at 8:41 am Permalink
I found it. Its Isiah 65:1-4. God says that those who eat swine’s flesh and abominable broth (broth made from forbidden animals i.e. pork broth,seafood broth) are like smoke in his nostrils.
That’s not a good thing to be.
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03/06/2009 at 9:09 am Permalink
Hi there,
I love your blog and in addition to subscribing, get your updates on FB. Thanks for all you do! That said, I am highly wary of flat-out endorsements like the one in today’s entry. I don’t know whether or not it is a paid endorsement but it just rubs me the wrong way. Also, any book that has the word diet in it like that, e.g. “The ___ Diet” gives me pause. I’m sorry! I love your reviews, links to posts, recipes, etc. Just not this kind of thing.
03/06/2009 at 9:51 am Permalink
Hi, Vicky, thanks for your feedback.
I don’t endorse ANYTHING that I don’t totally and 100% believe in. I loved this book and I think we need to get the word out to America about real food! The obesity rate in this country is staggering.
Yes, as bloggers, we do sometimes get paid by advertisers. While we don’t do “paid content” or paid endorsements, we do accept payment in the form of affiliate marketing. In other words, bloggers receive a small (VERY small) amount of money for recommending a product or company.
However, except for the Google ads (which I make VERY little on — next to nothing!), I ONLY accept sponsors and advertisers I completely believe in. (And we still don’t make much from this.)
Sorry if you are uncomfortable with it but bloggers do need to be compensated somehow so we can keep blogging. I easily spend 30-40 hours per week on this blog. For almost no money. Quite honestly, if I can’t find a way to monetize it, I will have to quit. What a shame that would be!
I’d love it if we could just get folks to pay for our content but that is not going to happen. So for now, we will continue to accept sponsors we believe in. I think we should support sponsors we believe in anyway — they are bringing real food to the people!
03/06/2009 at 9:53 am Permalink
Thanks! I just ordered the book! Hopefully I’ll lose some pounds, while eating healthy!
03/06/2009 at 10:20 am Permalink
Thanks for your response. Oh no, I certainly don’t want you to quit! I don’t have a problem when blogs display ads, I really don’t. It’s when lines get blurred between a review and sponsorship. I hear you about the need to get t he word out though; it’s a tough battle to wage. Again, I appreciate the information this blog provides. I read lots and I do have strong opinions!
03/06/2009 at 10:35 am Permalink
Thank you so much for the video. I *loved* it. Kelly hit the highlights that I appreciated most. That video is a great little intro into eating Real Food.
Cheers,
KristenM
(AKA FoodRenegade)
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03/06/2009 at 12:14 pm Permalink
Hi, Vicky,
I understand. It’s always been a thin line. I’ve been in the online media & advertising business since 1995 and I’ve seen these struggles happen over and over again between ads and editorial.
In the 1950s they used to put ads right into the TV shows. On Ozzie & Harriet, right in the middle of the narrative, Harriet would walk into the kitchen and introduce her new General Electric range. That was how they did commercials. Now due to Tivo and DVRs they’re starting to embed more and more product placements into TV shows.
Bloggers commonly link to advertisers within their posts. We also run contests and giveaways for sponsors. Sometimes we do these things for free and sometimes we earn very small amounts as affiliate revenue.
I am not being paid for the links in this post. I posted it because I believe in the book, and it is also a test to see how many clicks it will get. I’m doing this because Real Food Media blogs are going to be implementing a new advertising program in which we will be sending our readers to a “Resources” page. That Resources page will list all of our sponsors.
I believe we need to do something like this because we really do believe in the sponsors who help support us and we want to help them get more traffic and customers. And because we are so particular about the brands and products we recommend, we are only working with sponsors we truly believe in.
Anyway, I’m testing the links within the page right now because the Resources page is not yet built. I’m sorry if it was confusing. I think having a Resources page will eliminate the confusion. I’ve just had to do some testing while I build the model!
03/06/2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink
Jenny -
So true about the baby formula! That was what got me started down this “real food” road in the first place. When I found out what was in commercial baby formula, I was horrified. Which led me to making Sally Fallon’s homemade baby formula, which led me to the Weston A. Price Foundation and real food. Thank goodness I found out about all of this when my baby was just a few months old. And my deepest gratitude to Sally Fallon, Weston Price, and my Great Uncle Roy, who was the one who introduced me to all of this.
03/06/2009 at 4:03 pm Permalink
I love the idea of a diet book based on eating traditional foods! What a concept.
I hope that people realize that they can eat real food, promote good health, and lose weight, too. If I had to choose between cosmetic appearance and health I’d go with health. However, healthy people are usually very attractive as well and avoid the big bellies seen in those who consume high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners. Thank you for all you do on Real Food Media to promote eating real food.
03/06/2009 at 5:17 pm Permalink
I recently went to a meeting in my area where I had the pleasure of hearing Kevin Brown speak. The history of the food industry was new to me and now it makes all the sense of why things are the way they are today. It’s so great that you all spread the word.
03/06/2009 at 5:35 pm Permalink
Hip, hip, hooray! for REAL foods! Not only do people eat all kinds of industrial waste, but then they brush their teeth afterward with MORE industrial waste (fluoride). My family and friends are beginning to look at me in that way that says “we are not sure you are emotionally balanced; you are a little over the top and paranoid with this food, chemical, back to basics crusade.” How can some not see when we show them the stories and information that raises the curtain and throws the shutters wide open? And, so, the crusade continues…
04/06/2009 at 5:47 am Permalink
Thanks for posting about this Ann Marie. This looks like a GREAT book. I can’t wait to get a copy. I’m telling you, so many books, so little time. I’m in the middle of reading Nina Panck’s Real Food For Mother and Baby, and Rami Nagel’s Healing Our Children. I also really need to get a copy of his book on healing cavities. I just discovered that Jasmine has 2 cavities in her molars. I would really like to heal them instead of traumatizing her at the dentist.
05/06/2009 at 9:48 am Permalink
Christine, do you know why she got cavities? Is she eating well? Does she have any digestive issues that might be preventing absorption?
06/06/2009 at 9:33 am Permalink
Can you tell me a little about the types and amount of exercise The Liberation Diet recommends?
07/06/2009 at 12:35 pm Permalink
Ann Marie,
I don’t know exactly why she got cavities. It really makes me mad though. We didn’t start eating WAP until she was about 15 months old. Now that she is three years old, she has been drinking raw milk for over 1.5 years. From what I read in Nina Planck’s new book, she said the baby teeth form in the fifth month of pregnancy. And, I certainly wasn’t eating nutrient dense during my pregnany. I wasn’t terrible, but not NT either. We have all been using tooth soap for the last year as well, so I am at a loss. One cavity is an actual hole in her back molar. I It is like a piece of tooth actually chipped right out. Every night I have to pick food out of the hole with a pick. If I press into the hole with a pick, she says it DOES NOT hurt. She has another cavity in a top molar that is a dark spot. Neither one hurts her. I am not sure if I should get these cavities filled, or try to heal them over. I just don’t want to wait until they become abcessed and they have to be pulled. That would really be traumatic. I am having her take fermented CLO everyday, raw butter, raw milk, a probiotic, and liver pills (she can swallow capsules now). I am also trying to make sure the grains she eats are either soaked or sourdough. I am also going to order some Concentrace mineral drops for her.
Her bowel movements have always been normal (easy, well formed, 1xper day). She does not sleep great in the night though, wakes up 2-3 x, and has slight dark circles under her eyes. People have commented about this.
I don’t know what else to do. Do you have any suggestions?
07/06/2009 at 1:33 pm Permalink
Hmmm I wonder if she has a food sensitivity… have you ever tried taking her off grains and dairy to see how she sleeps?
I wouldn’t think that would be it since she’s regular but you never know. She doesn’t have any skin issues does she?
If she does have a food intolerance, that would explain the malabsorption. That’s the first thing I question.
You could try to get more bone broth into her — like daily. I also think fish and particularly shellfish is one of the most important things for strong teeth and bones. I know Rami Nagel recommends oysters (he really recommends the bone broth, too.)
Which probiotic is she taking?
07/06/2009 at 4:04 pm Permalink
I have not taken her off grains or dairy at all. But for some odd reason this week it is like pulling teeth trying to get her to drink any milk. She says, all of a sudden, that it is yucky. I am contemplating doing GAPS with her for a short while to see if that will help.
She has always slept really well since she was a baby. She slept right through the night in her crib. We switched her over to the big girl “toddler” bed this past November, and ever since then, she’s up 2-3 X in the night. The dark shadows under the eyes could be the lack of sleep in the night. She also stopped afternoon napping at 2 years old. She does not have any skin issues at all.
Yes, I must try to get bone broth into her as much as possible, and more fish. She is a carb. addict though. She will eat fat and protein, but carbs are her first choice.
She is just taking a cheapy probiotic from the store. I have to order more biokult, I know it’s the best one.
07/06/2009 at 6:22 pm Permalink
If she’s always slept through the night, doesn’t have any skin issues, and has normal bowel movements, she doesn’t sound like a GAPS kid.
But the carbs thing… I know if I let Kate eat bread or other carbs, she’ll sometimes just eat that and nothing else. Like the other day we ate at the aquarium and we split a burger. She just ate the bread. Maybe a bite or two of meat but mostly bread. So I have to be careful and make sure she gets enough protein and good fat.
The cheap probiotics don’t work at all. I know — I’ve tried many of them. Biokult and Threelac are the only ones that have ever worked for me.
08/06/2009 at 6:04 am Permalink
I think the carb thing is pretty typical. If I give her a burger, she always goes for the bun first too. I have to make her eat the meat. But, she loves eggs, yogurt, and crispy nuts. She will eat meat, but just goes for the carbs first. I have to make sure she just gets more of the meat and protein.
I am hoping that the sleeping issues are just a phase she is going through. If it were Kate with these kind of cavities, what would you do? Especially since they are not hurting her? I’m just so worried that all of a sudden she’ll wake up one day with an abcess. But, on the other hand, when Tyson was about 3 years old, he had a cavity in a molar, that got filled, and then about 5 months later it did become abcessed, and had to be pulled anyway.
Do you know if Rami Nagel has an email address that he would respond to if I asked him about this?
08/06/2009 at 11:33 am Permalink
Just read the first 20 pages of the Liberation Diet book. THANK YOU for recommending it! It really makes sense…what an education!
09/06/2009 at 7:27 am Permalink
Christine – I don’t have an email address for Rami.
Dr. Price reversed dental decay in children with one meal a day.
When Price devised a nutrition plan for an orphanage, the meal included bone marrow. “About four ounces of tomato juice or orange juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. They then received a bowl containing approximately a pint of a very rich vegetable and meat stew, made largely from bone marrow and fine cuts of tender meat: the meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice and then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup which always contained finely chopped vegetables and plenty of very yellow carrots; for the next course they had cooked fruit, with very little sweetening, and rolls made from freshly ground whole wheat, which were spread with the high-vitamin butter. The wheat for the rolls was ground fresh every day in a motor driven coffee mill. Each child was also given two glasses of fresh whole milk. The menu was varied from day to day by substituting for the meat stew, fish chowder or organs of animals” (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 6th Edition, page 295).
http://westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/bone-marrow.html
Of course, kids back then didn’t have the gut dysbiosis issues they do today due to antibiotics, the pill, chlorinated water, etc. Since you’ve been feeding her a pretty good diet for a long time, this is what I suspect. It doesn’t matter how much good food she gets if she’s not absorbing it.
Then again maybe you are offering it and she’s not eating it. Is she eating liver and shellfish? Is she getting bone broth and lots of grass-fed butter? Or is she just eating bread?
If she’s craving carbs and sweets, that could be a sign of a yeast (candida) overgrowth. I never had any digestive issues or skin problems but I did have a massive yeast overgrowth which caused major problems.
I also might try eliminating all starches, dairy and all sugar for a while (a few weeks to a month) to see if there might be an intolerance that is cause malabsorption. If she really craves bread I would give her soaked almond bread or coconut bread. If it is a candida overgrowth, you want to make sure she is on a very high quality probiotic like Biokult. You can also feed her kefir grains — I’ve heard that works.
I know it’s hard with toddlers because they are picky but that’s what I would do. The cravings go away in time.
19/09/2009 at 12:48 pm Permalink
I’ve posted this to my fb, thanks!
I love how when I was watching the video, the ad appearing alongside it was from Becel…!!
Christine, I have some local dentist/cavity info for you; Marcus was diagnosed with cavities before he was even eating very much, and certainly not any refined sugar. We took him to a different dentist (who has a WAPF link on her website), and she was ok with a “wait and see” approach. The original paediatric dentist wanted to get the cavities filled asap, as well as do molar planing. The new dentist never recommends the planing, says the material is very toxic. He ended up getting some of the cavities filled about over two years later, but by the new dentist. Nothing new since.
27/11/2009 at 1:05 am Permalink
Christine – Can you post the name of the dentist? I am looking for a pediatric dentist for my 16 month old and I am interested since this dentist seems to know WAPF.
Thanks!