I think Gironda is especially useful since he was from a less controlled era. Plus he seemed to be a natural experimenter. We have come under the rule of controllers, those who publish approved diets that bear little relation to good nutrition. We desperately need more people self-experimenting to discover what works for them.
Really great to read this post. This kind of message needs to reach as many people as possible. With whatever BS "scientific" evidence might have emerged since Gironda's era (and his great book) it's obvious to those of us, like you, who have been looking at diet and nutrition for a while (it's been about 20+ years for me) that Vince was way more right than he might have been wrong.
I'll suggest a couple of people (i.e., their work) with whom you might already be familiar, but just in case not, and for the benefit of any who bother to read this comment. Since you mentioned Pottenger, I assume you've read Weston A. Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". Price and Pottenger were at least correspondents and, I believe, Pottenger came slightly after Price. In any event, Price's book (c 1932) ought to be on every person's booklist and required reading for all "healthcare" professionals and amateurs alike. We are all our own professional, too, after all. As far as the dental professionals are concerned, Price should be considered by them as Velan is to the Mimbari (very obscure reference. Kudos to any who got it without looking it up) which is to say, the "greatest of us". The first half of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, if read thoughtfully, will reveal more or less everything sensible one might need to know on "ideal" human alimentation.
Another, who is somewhat related to Gironda, at least in terms of era, is Dr. Mauro DiPasquale. He was a world class powerlifter back in the 70s. By the 90s he had become influential in the field of strength and, to a lesser degree, bodybuilding, although it was his protegé, Charles Poliquin (RIP) who went on to be more widely regarded in those arenas and in many professional and olympic sports. Pasquale came up with a raft of diet related protocols centering on strength and body-composition, all related in one degree or another to his overall concept of an "Anabolic Diet" or "Anabolic Solution" (his earliest works, c. 1992). A good place to start with Dr. Pasquale is his 2000 "Metabolic Diet" book, which is kind of a compendium of his notes, books, and research up to that point, including Anabolic Diet, etc..
Please forgive the length of this comment. It's offered in support of and comradeship with your excellent work, Mr. Raw Egg, good sir (to which I've only recently been introduced). It's also for any and all who share an interest in finding ways to optimize their physical well-being. And that is, of course, also a mento-spiritual well being, after all.
I don't think the civilization wide problem of obesity and chronic disease will ever come close to being solved (without the creation of hundreds of millions of lifelong Ozempic/Wegovy addicts) without governments instituting complete bans on all ultraprocessed and junk foods. (Right. In your dreams, Jack.)
Or leave them to their fate. Everything is a test. It is entirely possible to improve a diet, it just takes effort. The last thing we need is more government regulation.
I used to think like this. Now I just accept most are sheep. Leave them in peace and accept their laziness means you can enter the top twenty percent with basic nutritional changes and a gym membership.
I'm in lockstep agreement with you. I was just indulging myself in making a sarcastic remark about what it would actually take to straighten the society wide nutrition and chronic health problem out, not whether I personally felt the problem should be addressed in that manner. As far as I'm concerned, if people want to be sheeple, they have the absolute right to be. (I'm not obliged to get to know them personally.) I'm also a firm believer in very, very small government. (With respect to RFK, Jr., I have a wait and see attitude if he gets confirmed by the Senate. There were a lot of promises made, but will he make the federal health and nutrition bureaucracy better, or worse?)
I do think people are their own worst enemy. But their only salvation is in less help, not more. I think most people are decent, just badly informed and lazy too.
Good stuff. I am looking forward to seeing more.
I think Gironda is especially useful since he was from a less controlled era. Plus he seemed to be a natural experimenter. We have come under the rule of controllers, those who publish approved diets that bear little relation to good nutrition. We desperately need more people self-experimenting to discover what works for them.
Great read. Can’t wait to see the other parts.
Really great to read this post. This kind of message needs to reach as many people as possible. With whatever BS "scientific" evidence might have emerged since Gironda's era (and his great book) it's obvious to those of us, like you, who have been looking at diet and nutrition for a while (it's been about 20+ years for me) that Vince was way more right than he might have been wrong.
I'll suggest a couple of people (i.e., their work) with whom you might already be familiar, but just in case not, and for the benefit of any who bother to read this comment. Since you mentioned Pottenger, I assume you've read Weston A. Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". Price and Pottenger were at least correspondents and, I believe, Pottenger came slightly after Price. In any event, Price's book (c 1932) ought to be on every person's booklist and required reading for all "healthcare" professionals and amateurs alike. We are all our own professional, too, after all. As far as the dental professionals are concerned, Price should be considered by them as Velan is to the Mimbari (very obscure reference. Kudos to any who got it without looking it up) which is to say, the "greatest of us". The first half of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, if read thoughtfully, will reveal more or less everything sensible one might need to know on "ideal" human alimentation.
Another, who is somewhat related to Gironda, at least in terms of era, is Dr. Mauro DiPasquale. He was a world class powerlifter back in the 70s. By the 90s he had become influential in the field of strength and, to a lesser degree, bodybuilding, although it was his protegé, Charles Poliquin (RIP) who went on to be more widely regarded in those arenas and in many professional and olympic sports. Pasquale came up with a raft of diet related protocols centering on strength and body-composition, all related in one degree or another to his overall concept of an "Anabolic Diet" or "Anabolic Solution" (his earliest works, c. 1992). A good place to start with Dr. Pasquale is his 2000 "Metabolic Diet" book, which is kind of a compendium of his notes, books, and research up to that point, including Anabolic Diet, etc..
Please forgive the length of this comment. It's offered in support of and comradeship with your excellent work, Mr. Raw Egg, good sir (to which I've only recently been introduced). It's also for any and all who share an interest in finding ways to optimize their physical well-being. And that is, of course, also a mento-spiritual well being, after all.
I don't think the civilization wide problem of obesity and chronic disease will ever come close to being solved (without the creation of hundreds of millions of lifelong Ozempic/Wegovy addicts) without governments instituting complete bans on all ultraprocessed and junk foods. (Right. In your dreams, Jack.)
Or leave them to their fate. Everything is a test. It is entirely possible to improve a diet, it just takes effort. The last thing we need is more government regulation.
I used to think like this. Now I just accept most are sheep. Leave them in peace and accept their laziness means you can enter the top twenty percent with basic nutritional changes and a gym membership.
I'm in lockstep agreement with you. I was just indulging myself in making a sarcastic remark about what it would actually take to straighten the society wide nutrition and chronic health problem out, not whether I personally felt the problem should be addressed in that manner. As far as I'm concerned, if people want to be sheeple, they have the absolute right to be. (I'm not obliged to get to know them personally.) I'm also a firm believer in very, very small government. (With respect to RFK, Jr., I have a wait and see attitude if he gets confirmed by the Senate. There were a lot of promises made, but will he make the federal health and nutrition bureaucracy better, or worse?)
I do think people are their own worst enemy. But their only salvation is in less help, not more. I think most people are decent, just badly informed and lazy too.