This "powerfully" effective dieting coffee, with an equally masculine name "Bulletproof" is not just any old coffee. It is roasted with butter from "grass-fed cows" as well.
Apparently, it works by suppressing your appetite. Meaning you eat less. Well, that is a good start...to eat less. Perhaps that is why we pile on the flaps, we eat too much? But then, there lies a problem. If you stop eating, and worse still, stop eating the right foods, you can get yourself in the s**t territory. So what do you do to counter the real potential of malnutrition? Imagine that ! Malnutrition in a first world! So you eat vitamins, vitamins ranged from A to Z, and some with subscripts as well like B1, B2, B3, etc.
But would that work? I argue that it is not as effective as eating the "real" foods, but in a smaller quantities.
I am a keen gardener, but I have only marginal success. I would spread fertilizers of all descriptions around the plants. Phosphate. Chicken manure (Dynamic Lifter), Slow release fertilizer, and lately, the NPK pellets farmers used. Somehow, plants only grudgingly said thank you and grew just a little to keep my hope up a bit.
Then I thought I shall go one notch up, and started making my own compost with hay, chicken manure, and cow manure. 6 weeks later, I have a semi-smelly mass of dark brown compost in the bin. I laid a few handful of it around that SOB Youngs Berry vine which had been sitting there unresponsive for the last 2 years, barely growing! Alas, within three days, green shoots appeared, and quite a few of them too. Obviously the compost does the trick.
And there lies my theory. A compost is made up of not just rotted hay, but manures and all kinds of bacteria gathered and enriched during the composting process. So the plant now gets a "complete" suit of nutrition rather than "individual" and distinct form of nutrition.
My conclusion? Just like the plants, we need a complete and healthy mix of foods to sustain us. By avoiding certain food groups because they are perceived to be bad or making you gain weight, and then compensate by eating vitamin pills, is akin to what I did by applying individual fertilizers to the plants, before I used compost.
I hope you find some use out of this rant. You bet you are, you are I am.
