ONL055 The Liberation DietONL055 The Liberation Diet

In this show we turn the diet experts on their heads. Annette Presley, co-author with Kevin Brown of The Liberation Diet , refutes the mainstream doctrine of weight loss and promotes the eating of real, traditional foods. Annette Presley RD LD NSCF-CPT is a dietician, personal trainer, and adjunct professor. She purports a return to the diet our ancestors ate before the advent of processed foods. The Podcast can be found on the link below or downloaded from iTunes, Zune, or Stitcher.

Would you like to eat real, fat-filled, natural foods such as butter, eggs, steak, and coconut oil and still lose weight and regain your health?

The Liberation Diet, like Sally Fallon and Mary Enig’s Eat Fat, Lose Fat , states that you can. Their claims are backed up by many readers who have done just that.

This “diet” does not include counting calories, and is safe and healthy enough to adopt for a lifetime rather than a temporary fix. Acceptable foods include nutrient-rich bone broths, organ meats, fresh vegetables, and small amounts of fruit and soaked grains. The book has a very easy-to-read style full of interesting historical facts. It is very accessible to the average reader. I’m sure it will spark some controversy. Please feel free to leave your comments! For many of you, the diet might seem very strange or difficult for you to implement, as it involves avoiding processed foods. For Jon and I, this kind of eating is part of our daily life. When we stray from this, our body soon reminds us to return to healthier habits.

For breakfast this morning I made organic (traditional but not local) coffee with raw heavy cream from grass fed Jersey cows, some local bacon from pastured pigs, and a lightly scrambled egg from local pastured heritage hens topped with chevre made by a local farmer from raw Saanen goat milk. I chased it down with a cup of raw goats milk. This is a typical breakfast in the Payne household (lucky us!) and one that would be endorsed on The Liberation diet. With this high fat, normal carb meal, there are no spikes in insulin so I can get by without snacking for the next 5 hours until lunch.

Worried about cholesterol? Listen to the interview with Chris Masterjohn on cholesterol facts and myths.

Wise Traditions Conference

I’ve heard from several of our listeners who are going to the Wise Traditions Conference in Illinois next week. I’m so sorry Jon and I won’t be joining you! Jon will be tied up in business meetings all week and I’ll be teaching. We’re hoping that next year circumstances will allow us to join you – in Maryland, I think. I’m sure you’ll network with some wonderful people and learn a lot. And eat great food!

A Listener’s Suggestions

As you know, we enjoy receiving email, facebook comments, tweets, and phone messages from our listeners. We like to know what you like and what you want to hear more of. I want to thank the listener, whoever you are, who recommended us to Jimmy Moore. He is now recommending us to his listeners and we have several new facebook fans. I think Jimmy would endorse Annette and Kevin’s diet plan.

Margaret Auld-Louie with Optimum Choices recently wrote to us with suggestions about our sound quality. We pride ourselves on doing the best job we can with our available equipment. We’d love to purchase a phone bridge to give you a better listening experience. By leaving us a tip in the tip jar or shopping from our affiliate pages, you can support us in continuing this Podcast. Thank you, Margaret, for starting the contributions. Here are the comments from Margaret regarding soy. Soy is also discussed in interviews with Lierre Keith and Robyn O’Brien.

I’d like to hear a podcast on the problems with soy (ideally an interview with Kaayla Daniel, author of the Whole Soy Story, which I have read). As a WAPF member, I’m well aware of the problems but find that few people outside of WAPF are aware of the toxicity of soy. Even most farmers are unaware of it and this makes it difficult to find any pastured poultry or eggs that are soy-free. I have tried educating farmers about it but they won’t listen to me as a lone person and a “city girl”. When I tried to talk to a farmer about this at the Golden farmer’s market, her reaction was “are you allergic to soy?” as she could not comprehend any other reason why I would want soy-free chicken and eggs. I gave her info from WAPF but she just does not have any interest in eliminating soy from the diet of her chickens, especially with no one else requesting this. I was buying chicken and eggs from a soy-free Kansas farmer who delivers to Denver but now she has ceased deliveries due to family medical problems. So, the only remaining sources of pastured poultry within reasonable distance of Denver are that farmer at the Golden farmer’s market (in the summer only) and Wisdom’s Natural Poultry who proudly proclaim on their website: “Corn and soybean meal is what gives our poultry the unique fleshy texture that nature intended.” http://wisdomsnaturalpoultry.com/ It’s easy to tell people they should eat pastured poultry and eggs from local farmers but it’s not so easy to find in some parts of the country (like here), much less finding soy-free pastured poultry/eggs. (I am a member of the Denver WAPF chapter, but still, it’s hard to find sources for some things.) I find it much easier to find grassfed beef and lamb (which can be purchased at Whole Foods, if one can afford it), than pastured poultry, which is not available in any store. In Colorado, there are far more farms offering grassfed beef than pastured poultry. A podcast on the toxicity of soy would help educate people so that they will start demanding soy-free products from farmers. People need to have multiple farms offering soy-free pastured poultry, since (as I have found from personal experience), farmer’s circumstances frequently change and a source you depend on for a product often goes away and you have to find another source (that is one disadvantage of buying from small local farmers vs. stores). In my searches, I found one Colorado farm aware of the problems with soy, Foxfire Farms (http://www.foxfirefarms.com/organicfree-rangeeggs.aspx). They sell pastured eggs but not poultry. However, they cannot meet the demand for eggs: “Due to a very high demand eggs will not be available until production exceeds the demand”. In Colorado, the demand for pastured eggs exceeds the supply at every farm, in my experience (not even considering whether the eggs are soy-free). You might want to interview FoxFire farms for a podcast, as they are a really great farm, offering grassfed goat, lamb and beef. The Foxfire website states: “We have developed a local and national reputation as practitioners of sustainable agriculture. Richard acts as a sustainable agricultural consultant, participating as a speaker in many local, national and international conferences. Richard is a regular contributor to “The Stockman Grass Farmer”, a magazine for Grass Farmers”. They are far from Denver but there is a farm store north of Denver that carries their lamb, so I have bought a little there (it is quite expensive).

Comments are welcome!

WWOOFers UpdateMy son Matthew and his wife Lillian are enjoying their experiences with World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming (WWOOF). They have worked in farms in both the north and south islands of New Zealand tending calves, house-sitting, and weeding in fruit orchards. You can follow their adventures and see photographs at www.KiwiTrex.com. I’m happy to hear that strangers are taking them in and making them feel part of the family.

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