Sharing Ancestral Fitness with Youth

I spoke to a small group of students at a football camp this morning about Ancestral Fitness.

The message that many modern foods and drinks, such as soft drinks, have only 'been with us' for a short period of time in the course of human history seemed to resonate really well with them. They named some modern foods that make no sense from this perspective: Vitamin Water, Skittles, candy bars, Gatorade (despite what Dwayne Wade says on TV), etc.--they all recognized that these items are just sugar sources that lack nutritional value. They also named foods in our modern world that do make ancestral sense: vegetables like broccoli, nuts like almonds, proteins/lipids like eggs and meats, etc.--they all enjoyed the pistachios that I brought for them to munch on during my presentation.

One student, who is trying to add some lean muscle mass to his frame, said he will self-experiment with yogurt (the high in saturated lipids kind) and nuts/fruit for breakfast. He shared that one of his teammates told him to eat "tons of Top Ramen noodles" in order to bulk up--I steered him otherwise.

As we left, another student told his mom, "Fat is good."

To good health,

Brent