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Avoiding a Slippery Slope – Episode 2664

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Episode 2664 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss dining while on vacation, avoiding a slippery slope, and running with weighted vests.

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Avoiding A Slippery Slope

  • After a lesson in poetry and haiku, the topic of Summer vacation begins. (2:00)
  • People want to indulge on their summer vacations, mostly at theme parks and on cruise ships.
    • Vinnie had a lavish experience on a cruise once, but there was barely a gym! (11:00)
    • He made do with what he had to work with. He also gets seriously seasick.
    • The only thing to do on the cruise was gamble or overeat, neither of which he was interested in.
  • Lately, many of Vinnie’s consults have been centered around what a person, or family, eats on a cruise or at theme parks. (17:00)
    • Make up your mind before you leave on how you are going to handle the event. (18:30)
    • It’s the key to avoiding a slippery slope!
  • Anna gives a rundown of how you can approach the mindset. (20:00)
    • Ask yourself beforehand about the emotional reasons, mindsets, and triggers you may have.
    • Enjoy yourself, but be reasonable and plan.
  • Anna reads a question from listener Bob Z. (35:00)
    • Bob has a question about running with a weighted vest.
    • It is not recommended to run with weighted vests. The long-term effect on hips and knees is not good.
    • Rucking while walking is just fine, and it’s best to have the waist strap that goes with it.
  • Vinnie’s new challenge for himself has been building a model train setup. (48:00)
  • Anna’s cheese bites are coming out, and Anna and Vinnie share ideas for some NSNG snacks. (55:00)

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Being Lied To and The Sugar Diet – Episode 2662

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Episode 2662: Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss how you are being lied to about the Sugar Diet, the need for fat and protein, and more.

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Being Lied To and The Sugar Diet

  • After a bit of discussion about cartoon musicians and bubblegum pop, they switch to being lied to. (8:45)
    • It’s been around before, but in a different form: The Sugar Diet.
      • It’s similar to an All-rice diet or a Fruitarian diet.
  • Vinnie reviews his interview with Michael Arnstein. (10:30)
  • They talk about Cole Robinson and the “Snake Diet.” (22:00)
    • He should be ignored simply for the fact that he fat-shames.
    • He has recommended OMAD, high fat before, but seems to have added “sugar fasting.”
      • Chris gives the details of “sugar fasting.” (24:00)
  • You are being lied to: there is no nutritional value to sugar, and it causes damage to how your body functions. (26:00)
  • Years ago, an all-protein diet based on protein drinks proved deadly to some people. (29:00)
  • Big influencers are promoting a high-sugar diet. (35:30)
  • Chris reviews what happened with the Rice Diet. (39:00)
    • The reason it “worked” was an extreme caloric deficit. People in the study immediately regained weight upon leaving the study.
    • Protein and heavy lifting are how you build a stronger, healthier body. (48:00)
  • You do need some fat for your body to function properly. (50:45)
  • There is nothing that you can eat or drink with impunity. (51:00)
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Marketing Snow Jobs – Episode 2661

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Episode 2661 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss cheese bites, go through a list of popular marketing snow jobs, and more.

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Marketing Snow Jobs

  • But first, and very much not a “snow job”: Eat Happy Kitchen has cheese bites coming out! (6:00)
    • Vinnie wants to enjoy them as part of his Mt. Whitney hike this summer.
    • The cheese bites are low carb, clean (no junk ingredients), crispy, and filled with flavor.
  • Heart-healthy grains are a lie. (15:00)
    • Grains can create inflammation, including in your blood vessels and heart. Grains are not “heart-healthy.” (16:30
    • Breakfast is not necessarily the most important meal of the day. (23:00)
    • If you eat breakfast, have a couple of eggs instead.
    • If you have tried a smaller eating window during the day, but your weight loss has slowed down, try eating a couple of eggs in the morning.
    • All the meals you eat are important: it matters what you put into your body. (26:00)
  • Coffee will stunt your growth is also a lie. (31:00)
    • In 1895, C.W. Post came up with a product made of burnt grains.
    • He started a smear campaign against coffee so he could sell more “Postum.”
  • Drinking eight 8-oz glasses of water a day is another inaccurate recommendation. (38:00)
    • Michelle Obama had tried to address health and food awareness, but appears to have been shut down by Big Food companies. 
    • The focus was changed to drinking more water and moving more.
  • Marketing and social media are filled with snow jobs. (44:00)
  • Anna fills Vinnie in on how TikTok shopping works.

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Consistency Makes a Difference – Episode 2660

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Episode 2660: Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer talk to callers about how consistency makes a difference even when life gets overwhelming, and more.

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Consistency Makes a Difference 

  • No one wakes up wanting to be fat.
    • Fat-shaming is not acceptable; however, there are indicators in society that demonstrate the health of the country is declining. (5:00)
    • Obesity is less about genetics than we tend to think. 
    • Even the Pixar movie WALL-E sends a nod to this trend.

The Callers 

  • Dave has a question about rowing on the Concept 2; he gives a bit of backstory on how he discovered Vinnie and Anna Vocino. (17:45)
      • He had weight loss with NSNG, but life happened over the years, and he fell into bad habits. (22:00)
      • He was then diagnosed with cancer and dialed back into NSNG®.
      • He’s trying to dial in his Concept 2 routine.
    • There is no such thing as permanent weight loss. Weight loss only works when you are eating right. (26:00)
    • It only works as long as you are willing to work it!
    • Vinnie gives Dave suggestions about using the Concept 2 and getting into Zone 2 and other challenges. (27:00)
  • Charles is next: (39:30)
    • He has been going through a slow process after knee replacement surgery; Vinnie gives some suggestions and encouragement.
    • He lost approximately 40 pounds before the surgery and feels ahead of the game, despite healing being a slower process.
  • Nina chats about how she went off plan and how she is struggling to get back to where she was. (50:00)
  • Josh’s daughter has health issues that require a lot of hospital stays. (58:00)
    • His schedule challenges his ability to be consistently active. (1:05:00)
    • Josh’s approach and level of gratitude despite his challenges are inspiring. (1:11:00) 
  • Consistency will always make a difference in how you eat and exercise.

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Promoting Mixed Messages – Episode 2659

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Episode 2659: Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss three different topics that are all promoting mixed messages about health, and more.

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Promoting Mixed Messages

  • Chris discovered an article in VegNews: a vegan Italian cookbook. (5:00)
    • They divert to a bit of Italian-American history, which has had its challenges. (6:00)
  • Back to the VegNews article: They ponder how an Italian meal can be vegan. (12:15)
    • Vinnie’s family grew veggies, but all the Italian meals centered around meat.
  • There was a keto trial—a small trial—but testing high cholesterol. (22:00)
    • They discuss how many studies have been misrepresented by not including countries whose cultural diets contain a lot of meat.
    • Blue Zones has been misrepresented as well.
    • The diets vary, and the level of meat is far more than what tends to be represented.
    • The one thing all the Blue Zone cultures have in common is an active outdoor lifestyle. (37:00)
  • If you want to get rid of heart disease, you must get rid of processed foods. (38:00)
    • Lean Mass Hyper Responders have a different starting point to consider. (40:00)
    • High cholesterol (LDL) in and of itself is not necessarily a problem; you need to look at it in conjunction with other factors. (42:00)
  • The ADA launched the American Obesity Association. Novo Nordisk has contributed funds to the ADA. Novo Nordisk is the company that brought us Wegovy. (51:00)
    • GLP-1s are not a Magic Pill; if they were, they wouldn’t have deadly side effects. (52:30)
    • The ADA amended its guidelines to say that GLP-1s should be the “first line of defense” of correction for T2 diabetes, rather than lifestyle. (54:00)
      • The ADA is disengenuous because it receives millions of dollars from Big Food corporations each year to *not* tell you to cut out sugar and processed foods. (55:00) 
    • The information the ADA gives cannot entirely be trusted because of the sources of funding it receives.
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Fake Fat Foolishness – Episode 2658

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Episode 2658 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss news from Eat Happy Kitchen, another attempt at fake fat foolishness, and more.

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Fake Fat Foolishness

  • Different social platforms have different levels of engagement for both Vinnie and Anna. (3:00)
    • Vinnie experimented on X regarding the naming of a post. Changing the words in the post name altered the level of engagement, even though nothing else in the post had been changed. (10:00)
  •  They chat about personalities in the health space. (13:00)
    • Several have presented information that was taken directly from Nina Teicholz without giving credit to Nina. (15:00)
  • The ketogenic diet has been around for over 100 years. (18:00)
    • There is still plenty of disbelief that fat is healthy. (20:00)
  • They discuss menopausal changes and how they affect a woman’s belly.
    • Serena saw changes after changing her exercise routine and trying a CGM.
  • Anna found an article regarding an ingredient similar to Olestra. (30:00)
    • Olestra is a modified fat that was in food products, but was short-lived as it would cause “anal leakage.”
  • Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss is in Vinnie’s book club. (34:00)https://amzn.to/43GGEqL
  • Companies hire neuroscientists to develop the “bliss point” to keep foods addictive.
    • Food innovation is a challenge and a lot of fuckery happens. (36:00)
    • For example: protein bars. Anna reads about a protein bar that has reformulated fat (EPG by Epogee) in it.
    • EPG is not considered GRAS (generally regarded as safe) in Europe, yet it is allowed in the United States.
    • So many companies are all about the money and not about the health.
  • Anna’s cheese bites are going to be produced very soon!! (46:00)
  • They chat about a recent guest, Vince Sanders, who discussed CBD products with Vinnie. (54:00)

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FAT: A DOCUMENTARY (2019)

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