Mark Bell is an elite powerlifter and owner of Team Super Training Gym in Sacramento, CA. Chris Bell is a writer, director, and filmmaker known for the documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” and his new documentary called “Prescription Thugs” was recently released.
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Californians and their fad diets are hilarious to me. Just cut out processed food, or as I like to call it – fake/engineered food, completely from your diet and you'll be on a completely different level mentally and physically. This pretty much means cutting out about 90% of the grocery store and doing pretty much all your shopping on the perimeter of the grocery store…… where the real food is like meat, vegetables/fruit, dairy, rice, etc. Rice may be the only thing you'll need….. if you eat rice…. that will be found down an aisle and near the processed, boxed bullshit. Everything else you need to eat a proper diet and to get proper nutrition is on the perimeter of the store. I guess the frozen vegetables I buy is pretty close to shit food too in the freezer section (which is generally located near the perimeter of the store) next to crap like the "lean cuisines" and shit like that. I guess I buy peanuts and/or almonds though a lot, and those are generally down the snack aisle which can be distracting for some I guess. I'd say about 80% of my shopping nowadays is limited to the outskirts of the grocery store though. I'm not a picky eater (as long as it doesn't have mushrooms on it or in it I'm good). I realized that all I was eating was pretty much the convenience store near me's pizza slices and fast food burgers for pretty much every meal, but primarily just eating that convenience store pizza (live near Chicago….. convenience store pizza here is like the quality of NY style pizza…. still good, but not great…. yeah, burn on NY pizza). When I realized that if I can pretty much eat the same trash for every meal day after day there is no reason I can't eat pretty much the same healthy breakfast everyday and the same lunch and dinners every day too. Should I eat more vegetables and fruits than I currently consume? Maybe, but in order to do that I'd probably have to halve my rice portions for lunch and dinner. Thinking about it, I guess making the jump to a "keto" diet wouldn't be that hard, which is probably why they say more people have an easier time sticking to it than any other fad diet that has popped up in the last decade or so. I essentially would just have to cut out the 5 oz of brown rice I eat for each lunch and dinner and the bread I use to make my AMAZING egg, cheese, onion, green pepper, and tomato sandwiches with light miracle whip for breakfast and replace them with more fruits and vegetable and a lot more fats….. which I really don't know how to add even more fats than what I'm already consuming…… I guess more nuts….. and a lot of olive oil on everything? Meh…. in a few years people will come out with data saying it doesn't really make a difference, as long as you're eating "clean" or "healthier" food than processed shit and fast food you're fine. I can tell you right now, making the jump a few weeks ago from what I was eating to actually eating like a responsible adult – I have more energy and just FEEL better overall. As for this Keto shit that is the craze nowadays (In California….. where pretty much all the fad diets only have their popularity)…. if history tells us anything it will fizzle out much like the Atkins/low carb diets, Paleo diets, the "Zone" diet, Raw Food diet, Macrobiotic diet……. I can go on and on how crazy Californians have become with their fucking diet plans. Eat natural food and not processed shit and you'll be fine IMO. And don't add salt and sugar to anything….. sodium (I know, isn't the exact same thing as salt) and sugar is already found in ample amounts in natural foods – adding more to season said food is how you get unhealthy and probably why you're not losing the weight you want to lose. Once a month have a cheat DAY to treat yourself – in my case…. pizza… I can't help it, I'm from the Chicago area – or you can probably get by with a cheat MEAL (not day) once a week or every other week depending on how active you are.
As for these diets of the month though, AKA fad diets….. take them with a figurative grain of salt….. because I literally just said don't add salt to your diet, haha. I mean the guy who popularized this Keto craze is the same dude who made this "Bullet Proof" everything diet plan bull shit. Joe Rogan just said he thinks the guy is fucking crazy….. yet he is still following his meal plan. To me that's just as insane. You don't support a guy because you think he's nuts but you'll follow his dieting advice? That's like saying you don't support conservative/libertarian political candidates but love guns and the 2nd amendment and the idea of a smaller government. Or saying you LOVE freedom but support liberal or socialist candidates……. it just makes no sense.
So glad I'm a skeptic……. and had awesome but tough love parents. From an early age my friends and classmates would "suffer" from "ADHD" or "migraines" or "strep throat" etc. Whenever I got caught goofing off in class or not paying attention and my teacher ratted me out to my parents, they wouldn't think there is something medically wrong with me….. they'd whack me upside the head and tell me to quit fucking around. Turned out fine. When I had a sore throat my parents would say, toughen up, and spray that godawful spray down my throat and send me off to school….. pretty sure me and my sisters never had "strep throat." Don't know of a single person who actually has migraines either other than former classmates it was always just a headache and my mom would hand me two ibuprofen……. and send me off to school or kick me out of the house to go play outside.
In other words, I wasn't handled with kid gloves as a kid like SOOOO many kids are nowadays. Sure some may actually have these ailments, but if you ask me a majority of them, yes – majority, are bull shit. Like Bell's documentary touched upon we are all treated and raised as if life is supposed to be sunshine and rainbows and that it is fair. HA. I think since I was 4 years old my parents first life lesson they hammered home to me was "life is not fair" and that you had to earn everything you get in life. As a result of said societal mindset we've seen a dramatic rise in "diagnosed" cases of "depression" and "anxiety." What would likely be called in my house growing up…. a "bad day" and or "being nervous" and told to "get over it…… tomorrow is another day." I mean why did it take this documentary for people to realize and notice the insane amount of pharmaceutical drug commercials that air on TV? Also, why did it take this film for people to notice the "coincidence" in the epic rise in diagnosed "depressed" and "anxious" people right when airing drug commercials became legal and companies started pumping out anti-anxiety/depressant meds? Makes me seriously question the rise in diagnosed "autistic" kids. IMO "autism" is just another ADD. A quick diagnosis from a doctor to write a prescription for the kid so the parent can medicate their kid to behave so they don't have to deal with it and actually, you know, parent.
Chris Rock had a clip of his standup play in the film which pretty much sums up my feelings on the overly medicated world we live in. Companies will make as many drugs that blanket pretty much every mood or symptom figuring SOMETHING has to describe the viewer to make them start thinking something is wrong with them and to go see their doctor about getting said drug they saw on TV……. and then that drug has side effects that need to be treated by another drug that company makes and it just snowballs from there. It's all bullshit. I mean with the medical and scientific advances we have made to this point you'd think we'd be the healthiest era of human life yet every motherfucker is taking some sort of pill it seems. I'll just stick with my old standby of Ibuprofen or Advil for my cure all drug. Even then when I take that I feel skeptical though.
And this is just drugs….. don't get me started on the processed food industry and sugar/high fructose corn syrup lobbies that exist. 90% of the shit in grocery stores is pure junk.
Society as a whole depresses me though on how sheep-like they all are. I don't want to drag politics into this but my god are liberals some of the biggest group think/collective sheep out there. They claim to be anti-capitalism yet they are some of the mentally weakest people out their reliant on all the bullshit corporations sell to them. Show me a liberal not on a recreational or prescription drug and I'll pull a rabbit out of my ass.
Wow. Chris is looking a lot healthier/leaner nowadays.
Also, it's irresponsible to suggest people take relatively high doses of tylenol and ibuprofin daily. The former can damage your liver and latter can cause internal bleeding and ulcers. Better for pain? For slight aches, maybe. For moderate pain? Not at all. For long term use it's certainly arguable they're both worse than opioids, especially if you can control yourself while taking opioids.
Don't blame pills, blame yourself for lack of self control. Mark comes off as the most reasonable, "Everyone has their drug of choice". Yep. Why are users of other substances also some of the most vocal against others? Always a need to justify your drug of choice by demeaning others.