mmm... grass-fed cow... *drool* wild duck... *droooool* roadkill deer... *drooooooooool*

i only eat stuff from a can

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I love living in Portland. The supermarkets I shop at have organic, locally grown, free range, fresh, whole grain, good food and a high turn over rate so fresh things are new that day. Whole Foods and New Seasons are the best, but also most of the stores like Safeway and Fred Meyer have as much as good food as health food stores I have seen in other parts of the country. And remember, low fat is not always good, at least when it says it on the label. Just as the sugar in fresh fruit is good and the sugar in jam or cake is bad, there is good fat and bad fat. Fresh fat, like raw avocado, cold butter and cold pressed oils that have never been heated or cooked with, are part of a healthy diet. And just as there are essential amino acids, there are essential fatty acids. You need about as much good fat as you need protein, it is just harder to find good fat.

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I wish Australian supermarkets were so progressive. We could really do with a few Wholefoods, here. I remember them in L.A....

Coles and Woolworths here are just crap.

Our local organic market held every Sunday really is our best option. Because the produce is mostly sold by the growers themselves, you know it's really fresh. The other plus is that there's no plastic packaging and you can recycle your own baggies for the stuff that needs it.

Organic fruit and veg in Coles is usually wrapped in wads of plastic wrap, with a polystyrene plate underneath-it's kinda wateful. I think it's because they don't have the turn-over to have the stuff arranged in boxes like the non-organic produce.

We tried one of those box of food a week services for a while. The food was great, totally fresh. I forget now what farm it was. Portland is a little lacking in some areas, but I love the fresh food. I am a bit of a food snob, for better and worse. Not that my cooking is more than average. But I put more fiscal and political energy into food than issues that most people would consider much more important. And the way advertisers have bent 'fat free' and 'sugar free' to sell unhealthy food bothers me. But nothing can beat exercise and eating right for a plan. Good luck deathcow, although it sounds like you don't need it.

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I agree with you on the fat-free con, farcrafter. Those products almost always have gobs of sugar in them, and they conveniently forget to mention the fact that an overload of sugar converts to fat in your body anyway.

It feels good to be fit. Hey, have a look at the ashtanga vid, deathcow, those buggers are as fit as. Guaranteed, 10 minutes into that routine, you're sweating like crazy.

I was never so fit in my life as when I was doing ashtanga twice a week.

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Saturday 2nd June 2007 (promotion called by gold star member deathcow)

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WTF deathcow?!

In ten minutes you put out two viral spamming for P90X!!!!!! I would normally ignore such product prostitution, but given P90X!!!!!!!!!! reputation for sleazy marketing tactics, I gotta wonder when someone starts linking to retarded P90X!!!!!!!!!!! videos.

ashtanga vid?

hey man I'm just showing you what I'm doing, sorry, I think their whole infomercial shit is sleazy and their multilevel marketing crap is CRAP too, but the program works, I'm not associated with them and I really could give a damn if someone cares or doesn't care, excuuusssee me I wont "spam" the sift any more with fitness related posts. It's not like I'm loading this crap on you every day is it? Wow - two msgs in what, SEVENTY days? Sorry to eat your bandwidth up. So I branched out and polluted two whole videos with talk of it. Topic taboo! I've got 3416 comments on the sift and .00087 of them refer to it. Cane me in public. There, now only your posts refer to it. The sift is safe again and you dont have to wade through all my BS.

*eco

Adding video to channels (Eco) - requested by fissionchips.