In The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting, Amelia Morris challenges the degree to which feminist debates about dieting often take the form of a binary whereby (womens) bodies are either sites of oppression or liberation. Instead, drawing on interviews with dieters, analyses of dieting programme materials, fat activism and black feminist scholarship, the book posits a more ambivalent middle ground, arguing for a promising path tonuanced understanding of how our bodies are shaped in relation to power and diet culture, writes Megan Dean.

The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting. Amelia Morris. Palgrave. 2019.

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For decades feminists have criticised weight-loss dieting, accusing it of (among other things) reinforcing unrealistic and harmful body ideals, distracting from meaningful social and political engagement and being a tool of the patriarchy. Recently, body-positivity activists, including celebrities like actor Jameela Jamil, have spread their anti-dieting messages through social media, reaching new generations with the encouragement to reject dieting and love ones body as it is.

And yet, many people still diet. In the United States, 49.1 per cent of adults and 56.4 per cent of women tried to lose weight between 2013 and 2016. Ten of the top eleven strategies used toward that end were changes to diet. We have to assume that at least some of these dieters are aware of feminist objections to dieting. Indeed, Susan Bordo, whose book Unbearable Weight offers a canonical critique of dieting and weight-loss culture, has herself acknowledged participation in a commercial weight-loss dieting programme. Bordo is certainly not the only feminist who has considered joining Weight Watchers.

But why would anyone who thinks that dieting is a tool of the patriarchy go on a diet? Why would they engage in a practice that reinforces body norms they themselves reject? In short, why is knowing better not enough when it comes to dieting?

Amelia Morris explores these questions in her book The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting. Morris, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway University, situates what Ill call the ambivalent dieter within a broader feminist debate about the status of the body and its relation to power. As Morris characterises it, the main positions within this debate take the form of a dichotomy: bodiesspecifically, womens bodiesare either sites of oppression or opportunities for the exercise of liberty. Morris identifies the former perspective with radical feminists, such as Susan Brownmiller and Germaine Greer, and the latter with liberal and post-feminist scholars and writers, including Naomi Wolf, Catharine Lumby and Katie Roiphe.

Morris herself supports a third, post-structuralist position, which she identifies with Michel Foucault and feminist theorists like Sandra Bartky, Judith Butler and Bordo. According to this perspective, the body has a more ambivalent relationship to power than either side of the dichotomy suggests. Bodies exist, Morris writes, within a middle-ground of power (19). This middle ground is characterised by the claims that power works on and through the body in more subtle, mundane and insidious ways than oppression proponents would have it, and that the experience of freedom in relation to ones body is neither as attainable as the liberation side suggests nor a reliable sign that one is in fact free from pernicious forms of power.

The Politics of Weight argues that we should use this middle-ground approach to understand womens engagement in weight-loss dieting. Morris takes an interdisciplinary approach to this task, using interviews with British women dieters, body-positivity activists and fat-positive activists to highlight womens conflicted understandings and experiences of dieting, and the challenges of ridding oneself of an attachment to thinness as a source of happiness, comfort and confidence, even when one believes one should.

The first two chapters of the book discuss Morriss methodology and introduce the broader feminist debate about the body. In Chapter Three, The Dichotomy of Power in Dieting, Morris explores how this debate applies to weight-loss dieting in particular, and begins to make her case for a Foucauldian feminist approach. She does this in part by using interviews with dieters and analyses of dieting-programme materials to highlight some of the quintessentially disciplinary aspects of dieting, including the use of panoptic surveillance and the confession of dietary transgressions and weight gain to peers and group leaders at weight-loss meetings.

Morris is careful to point out that the feminist Foucauldian literature she favours has often ignored the relevance of race to the effects of power on the body. In Chapter Four, The O Factor: Foucault, Race, and Oprahs Body Journey, Morris attempts to address this gap through engagement with black feminist scholarship on the topic of Oprah Winfreys weight-loss projects. Morris highlights the ways that racist stereotypes like the Mammy and Jezebel structure understandings of black womens bodies. She suggests that the white hostility and ambivalence that met Oprahs dramatic weight loss can be understood as a response to Oprahs visible shift away from what white audiences perceived as a non-threatening, nurturing Mammy image. In this chapter and elsewhere, it is sometimes challenging to distinguish Morriss original contributions from her detailed discussion of the existing literature. Nonetheless, this chapter addresses an important issue and will point readers to some fascinating work on race and diet, such as Cheryl Thompsons 2015 paper, Neoliberalism, Soul Food, and the Weight of Black Women.

Chapter Five, Fat Activism and Body Positivity: Freedom from Dieting? will be of most interest to readers grappling with the complexities of resisting diet culture. Morris draws on fat-activist literature and practice to suggest that the insistence that we unequivocally love our bodies and reject dieting without ever looking back betrays a misunderstanding of how power works.

According to the Foucauldian picture Morris endorses, our subjectivities are shaped by our practices, including dieting. We can reject dieting but be left with emotions and self-understandings that have been shaped by that practice. This chapter draws attention to the ways fat activism can help reshape these aspects of subjectivity, while highlighting how widespread fatphobia limits such self-transformation. Rachel, a fat-activist performance artist, explains the limits of her work:

I dont think any of my work makes me feel liberated, because of re-opening that wound. You can make the space as safe as you want but weve all got to go outside afterwards and I cant make outside safe for me or for any of you.

Morriss discussion underscores the complications of resistance and the importance of a compassionate and nuanced understanding of how deeply many womennot to mention men and non-binary individualsare affected by diet culture.

Those acquainted with this area of research will find the books positions familiar, drawn from feminist and Foucauldian theorists Ive already mentioned as well as Fat Studies scholars like Samantha Murray. Throughout the book, Morriss interviews are mainly used to support rather than complicate or develop theoretical claims made by others. Some may hope for more dynamic engagement between theory and empirical work than is offered here. But the value of gathering relevant empirical evidence for theoretical claims should not be underestimated, and many theorists do not have the professional training to do so themselves.

While the books interdisciplinary approach and subject will be of interest to scholars in many different fields, I hesitate to recommend the book to those unfamiliar with the literature. The book suffers from poor copy-editing, which at times undermines the readability and reliability of the work. Of particular note are some significant citation issues that those new to the subject may not have the resources to recognise, such as a misquotation of Simone de Beauvoir on page 39.

Overall, though, The Politics of Weight tackles a topic of ongoing importance. Having a nuanced and accurate understanding of how our bodies are shaped in relation to power and diet culture is central to treating ourselves and others with compassion and respect. Such an understanding can also help us recognise what is needed to create the conditions so that knowing better can translate into doing better when it comes to dieting. The Politics of Weight argues for a promising path to this very worthy goal.

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Megan Dean Hamilton CollegeMegan Dean is the Chauncey Truax Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Hamilton College in New York. Her current research focuses on ethical issues relating to eating, specifically on the ways eating shapes the self and the implications of these self-shaping effects for clinical ethics, diet research, food policy and personal food choice. Dr. Dean received her PhD from the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and she has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Alberta.

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Joe Rogan at the age of 52 is in absolutely incredible shape after completing the whole of January on a purely carnivorous based diet.

Rogan is known widely by many people around the world for a few different things he is a regular commentator and interviewer employed by Dana Whites UFC, as well as being an avid mixed martial artist himself.

Alongside his work in the world of MMA and the UFC, Rogan is also a successful stand-up comedian and is currently on tour in the United States he has previously noted how unlikely the two professions go together but went on to say that for whatever reason, it just seems to work.

As well as that, he hosts one of the most popular and listened to podcasts on the planet The Joe Rogan Experience in which he has world-famous guests on to discuss anything from stand-up, MMA to conspiracy theories.

The one main thing Rogan keeps a consistent theme throughout his many platforms is his promotion of leading an active and healthy lifestyle. He is often posting stories to his social media of him and his dog going for a run (HIS DOG, IN FACT, HAS HIS OWN INSTAGRAM PAGE!) as well as posting post-workout videos of him at the gym either after weight training or sparring.

Before the start of the new year, Rogan vowed to lean up his physique and become an even healthier version of himself and as a result, he embarked on the carnivore diet.

After a full month of dedicated diet throughout the whole of January, Joe Rogan finally revealed to his followers via his social media the changes he feels both physically and mentally.

Joe has stated many times on his podcast that a good workout often leads to a better state of mind and increased productivity.

Rogan revealed that he has lost a total of 12lbs since the start of January and has lost his love handles and has gained a tone of energy and stated that his energy levels had been more consistent as a result.

He cited that his energy levels used to fluctuate somewhat and also mentioned to his listeners that he, in fact, suffers from an immune disorder known as Vitiligo of which had appeared to improve since the diet though he is unsure of the direct correlation, it does seem a little coincidental.

Rogan closed out his message by stating how it was the best he had felt in a long time, and its only been one month.

In a bid to get healthy for the new year Rogan has followed the carnivore diet; this cuts out all vegetables, fruit, grains, nuts and seeds in favour of meat, fish and other animal foods such as eggs and a few dairy products here and there.

Last year, Rogan stepped on the scales on the set of his podcast and weighed 205lbs (14.5st) he later stated that it was the fattest he had ever been.

Rogan went onto say:

"I had a belly; a lot of people made fun of me, fat-shamed me. I lost all my fat, I lost the belly, I lost my love handles.

"I don't know if I'm gonna keep eating like this, but it was tremendously beneficial.

"I also have an auto-immune disorder, it's called vitiligo, and my vitiligo improved, I had a bunch of white spots fill in, so, I don't know.

"I went into this thing thinking this carnivore diet was wacky and probably thought it was nonsense, but this is as good as I've felt in a long time and it's just one month.

Rogan made fans aware in a jokey social media post that he had suffered a severe bout of diarrhoea but noted that this passed and now feels great.

At the age of 52, Joe Rogan puts all of us to shame and is definitely one to watch, if not for health advice, tips and tricks but because he is so damn entertaining! whether it be from the Octagon, the stand-up stage or behind the microphone OR ALL OF THEM!

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More and more people who want to lose weight are turning to the new "hormone diet." But what is it exactly? Does it work? Here's what science has to say about it.

Say goodbye to high protein diets, intermittent fasting, and the keto diet. Meet the latest fad: the "hormone diet." The premise of this diet is that if a person hasnt managed to lose weight after several attempts, its probably because their hormones are working against them.

Several books have been published on the subject, praising the merits of this technique. Apparently, following this specific diet, along with physical exercise, will make you lose weight fast by "tweaking" or "resetting" your hormones.

Despite this new diet's surge in popularity, most scientists are sceptical about it. Overall, the hormone diets nutritional approach actually isnt bad.

But if people do in fact loseweight from it, its not because they've 'reset their hormones,' but rather because they've created a deficit between how many calories they're consuming and the number of calories their body burns. As of now, there is no scientific proof that the hormone diet actually works by tweaking a persons hormones.

Moreover, not managing to lose weight despite a healthy and balanced diet and regular physical activity could be a sign of something more serious, like diabetes or an underactive thyroid. However, people who suffer from these ailments cant just go on a diet. They must first be treated and follow their physician's health plan.

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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill is looking beyond todays 54th Super Bowl, where his team meets the San Francisco 49ers, to a possible appearance at this years Tokyo Olympics.

Earlier this week as part of the media build-up to the impending meeting in Floridas Miami Gardens, Hill told Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk that he had serious ambitions of representing the United States in the 100 metres at this summers Games.

Fifty-six years ago at the first Tokyo Games, Bob Hayes won gold for the US in the 100m and 4x100m before pursuing an American Football career with the Dallas Cowboys, becoming the only man in history to win Olympic gold and a Super Bowl ring.

Hill, a 25-year-old from Lauderhill in Florida, has already run a sub-10-second 100m.

"Hopefully after this season, if I'm healthy and my mind is still in the right place, I really want to try to qualify for some Olympic teams," he said, adding that he had looked into the process of qualifying for the Games that start in the Japanese capital on July 24.

Hills ambitions are tempered with realism.

"The thing is, I weigh like 195 [pounds] right now," he added.

"Back in high school, when I ran a 9.9, I was like 175.

So it would be me changing my whole diet that I've been doing to get to where I am now."

Should he be successful, however, Hill would be taking his place among a select and illustrious group of those who have previously bridged the gap between the NFL - including, for some, an appearance in the pinnacle event of the Super Bowl and in the Olympic Games, the pinnacle event in world sport.

The usual pattern for these adaptable athletes has been to establish themselves in track and field before moving on to NFL.

In seeking to reverse that order, Hill is bucking the trend, although he would not be unique.

Thus far the only fully fledged NFL player to compete in the summer Olympics is Jahvid Best.

He played for the Detroit Lions from 2010 until 2013, when he was released after the numerous concussions he had had during his career precluded him from safely continuing.

He then turned to athletics, and in 2016 represented St Lucia, his fathers home country, at the Rio Olympics, running a time of 10.39sec in his heat but failing to advance to the semi-finals.

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For most of the players involved in the 54th Super Bowl today the annual challenge for the Lombardi Trophy will represent a high point of their career. But for one player - Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill - a further peak looms beyond Mount Lombardi, namely Mount Olympus.

Earlier this week, as part of the frenzied media build-up to the impending meeting in Miami Gardens of the Chiefs - champions of the American Football Conference - and the San Francisco 49ers, who have topped the National Football Conference, Hill told Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk that he had serious ambitions of seeking a place at this years Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In the sprints, naturally. For this 25-year-old from Lauderhill in Florida has already run a sub-10-second 100 metres.

"Hopefully after this season, if I'm healthy and my mind is still in the right place, I really want to try to qualify for some Olympic teams," he said, adding that he had looked into the process of qualifying for the Games that start in Japan on July 24.

Hills ambitions are tempered with realism.

"The thing is, I weigh like 195 [pounds] right now," he added. "Back in high school, when I ran a 9.9, I was like 175.

So it would be me changing my whole diet that I've been doing to get to where I am now."

Should he be successful in scaling down his frame and scaling up his aspirations, however, Hill will be taking his place among a select and illustrious group of those who have previously bridged the gap between the National Football League (NFL) - including, for some, an appearance in the pinnacle event of the Super Bowl - and the Olympic Games, the pinnacle event in world sport.

The only man so far to have stood atop both Mount Lombardi and Mount Olympus is Bob Hayes, who established himself as the worlds fastest man with a stupendous display at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics before pursuing a highly successful NFL career with Dallas Cowboys, which included winning a Super Bowl ring at the end of the 1971 season.

By the time he got to the Tokyo Games, this native of Jacksonville in Florida was only 21 - and already a record-breaking sprinter.

In 1962, in a meeting at the University of Miami, he equalled the 9.2 world record time for the 100 yards and he was also the first person to break six seconds in the 60 yards with an indoor world record of 5.9sec.

The following year he lowered the 100 yards mark to 9.1, which would stand for 11 years, and also set a world 200m best of 20.5, although the time was never ratified.

He also recorded 20.6 in the 220 yards, running into a wind of eight miles per hour.

Hayes was already on a football scholarship at Florida A&M University and when he was selected to compete for the United States at the Tokyo Games his college coach was unwilling to offer him time to train. So highly regarded was Hayes as a sprinting talent that the United States President at the time, Lyndon B Johnson, interceded on his behalf.

This multi-talented athlete amply re-paid the faith in the Japanese capital after arriving with a record of 48 consecutive victories and no defeats.

The footage of him powering to the line to win the 100m final from lane one - the very worst of draws, given that the cinder track had been churned up on the inside by the previous days 20km race walk - is the stuff of Olympic legend.

Not only was he running through a mire, he was also running in borrowed spikes. It transpired that one of his shoes had been kicked under the bed back in his room at the Athletes' Village when he was playing with some friends and he hadnt realised it until he arrived at the Olympic Stadium.

Had it not been for the fact that Tokyo 1964 was the first Games to employ fully automatic timing for its athletics events, Hayes - who finished two metres clear of the nearest challenger - would have gone down in history as the first man to run the 100m in less than 10 seconds as he was hand-timed by officials with stopwatches at 9.9.

However, the electronic equipment registered his time at 10.06, which was rounded down to 10.00, thus equalling the world record that had been first set by Germanys Armin Hary at Rome 1960.

Hayes was also give an official time of 9.9 in winning his semi-final - how did he get to be given lane one in the final? But this was ruled out for record purposes as the following wind of 5.28 metres per second was well in excess of the allowable limit of 2.0m/s. His time according to the electronic recording was 9.91.

Hayess performance in adding a second Olympic gold in the mens 4x100m relay was arguably superior.

The US, anchored by their individual gold medallist, set a world record officially given as 39.0, and electronically recorded at 39.06, although at the point Hayes got the baton in his hand their chances looked slim as they trailed the French team by five metres.

Hayes revivified their fortunes with one of the most spectacular comeback runs in Olympic history to take the gold medal by a margin of three metres over Poland's Marian Dudziak, setting a new world record in the process.

According to the hand-timing of the US coach, Bob Giegenback, Hayes ran a split of 8.5. Others concurred, and even the slowest official time for his leg was 8.9. Nobody had ever run that fast before. Fifty-one years later Usain Bolt was clocked at 8.65 during the IAAF World Relays.

With that kind of speed, and a powerful build, it was not surprising that Hayes should make a big impact as an American footballer when he was selected as a wide receiver later in the Olympic year by Dallas Cowboys.

In his first two seasons he led the NFL in receiving touchdowns, registering 12 and 13 respectively, and such was his speed that he was credited with prompting a new zone defence system in the League, given that no single opponent could keep up with him.

He played four more years for the Cowboys after the Super Bowl win, finishing his career after a short period with the San Francisco 49ers.

In 2009, seven years after his death, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

While being an Olympic sprint champion provides a significant element of potentiality in terms of going on to become a successful NFL operator, it is no guarantee.

Four years after Tokyo, Hayess compatriot Jim Hines became the first man to win the Olympic 100m title in a sub-10 time as he clocked a world record of 9.95 in the thin air of Mexico, a mark which stood for almost 15 years.

Hines, who at six feet was a couple of inches taller than Hayes, was also signed as a wide receiver, playing for the Miami Dolphins from 1968 to 1969, and for the Chiefs in 1970. He played 10 times for the Dolphins in 1969, being given the nickname Oops with reference to his catching skills, and played once for the Chiefs - his final game.

An earlier US Olympian was a far more convincing convert to the NFL; Ollie Matson, a promising college footballer who won a 400m bronze medal and 4x400m silver medal at the Helsinki 1952 Games before signing up later in the year for the Chicago Cardinals, for whom he played a starring role for several seasons.

Matsons hugely effective NFL career spanned 14 years as he played for the Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles.

Four years after Matsons Olympic appearance, fellow American Glenn Davis won the 400m hurdles title at the Melbourne 1956 Games and retained his title four years later in Rome, as well as earning gold in the 4x400m relay.

He appeared on the front cover of Sports Illustrated that same year and also began a two-season career as a successful wide receiver in the NFL for the Lions.

Matson was a Pro-Bowl selection on six occasions, but he never got to play in the Super Bowl.

That is an achievement managed by a relatively small list of Olympians.

One such was US sprinter Willie Gault, whose Olympic ambitions of 1980 were frustrated by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, but who played a part as the US won the first 4x100m relay world title in 1983 in a record time of 37.86.

Gault went on to play NFL football for 11 season, playing wide receiver for the Chicago Bears as they won Super Bowl XX and ending his career on the books of the Los Angeles Raiders.

A man of many parts, Gault also danced with the Chicago Ballet and was an alternate on 1988 US bobsled team.

Strictly speaking, Gault may just have missed out on winter Olympic action. Only one man has combined NFL and Winter Olympic performances is Herschel Walker, who during the course of a football career that saw him play for Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles, took part in the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville.

Walker was brakeman in the two-man bobsled, where he and his driver Brian Shimer finished ninth.

Like Gault, he also prodded his toe into ballet. In 1988, while with Cowboys, he danced with the Fort Worth Ballet for a single performance.

James Jett never won the Super Bowl, but he had a successful 10-year career with the Raiders having won an Olympic gold medal at the Seoul 1988 Games, having run in the heats for the US mens 4x100m team.

James Trapp was a reserve for the US mens 4x100m relay team at the Barcelona 1992 Games and a year later won the world indoor 200m title in Toronto.

He subsequently had a 10-year NFL career, picking up a Super Bowl ring with the Baltimore Ravens in 2000.

Had Renaldo Nehemiah been able to run in the Moscow 1980 Games, rather than being sidelined by the US boycott, he would have had a huge chance of winning the 110m hurdles title.

A year later he became the first man to run the event in under 13 seconds, clocking 12.93 at the Zurich Weltklasse meeting.

A year later he signed as a wide receiver with the 49ers, and although he did not play a major role he was a part of their team that won Super Bowl XIX. He was released by the 49ers in 1985 and returned to track competition the following year.

The usual pattern for these adaptable athletes has been to establish themselves in track and field before moving on to NFL. In seeking to reverse that order, Hill is bucking the trend, although he would not be unique.

John Capel, a hugely promising athlete and footballer at collegiate level, was selected by the Bears in the 2001 NFL Draft but was released during training camp. The same thing happened to him the following year when picked up by the Chiefs.

In 2003, Capel - who in 1999 had won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 200m title and earned sprint relay gold at the World University Games - won the world 200m title in Paris.

Close, but no cigar for Capel. Thus far the only fully fledged NFL player to compete in the summer Olympics is Jahvid Best. He played for the Lions from 2010 until 2013, when he was released after the numerous concussions he had had during his career precluded him from safely continuing.

He then turned to athletics, and in 2016 represented St Lucia, his fathers home country, at the Rio Olympics, running a time of 10.39 in his 100m heat but failing to advance to the semi-finals.

Bob Hayes was the second Olympic gold medallist to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The honour of being the first belonged to Jim Thorpe, Olympic champion at pentathlon and decathlon at the Stockholm 1912 Games, who was inducted, like Hayes, posthumously.

The decision to name Thorpe among the games great and good - taken in 1963, 10 years after his death - was part of a larger reappraisal of his career following the International Olympic Committees (IOC) draconian decision to strip him of his medals for infringing the strict rules on amateurism having been found to have played professional baseball at a lower level in 1910 and 1911.

At the age of 25 he became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the US.

Regarded as one of the most versatile athletes of recent times, he won Olympic titles in the pentathlon and decathlon and also played collegiate and professional American Football as well as professional basketball and baseball.

Thorpe took up baseball in 2013, signing up with the New York Giants, for whom he played in Major League Baseball for six years. He combined that career with playing American football, joining the Canton Bulldogs in 1915 and helping them win three professional championships.

He later played for six teams in the NFL. Indeed, from 1920 to 1921 he was nominally first President of the American Professional Football Association, which became the NFL in 1922.

In 1983, 20 years after his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction and 30 years after his death, the IOC restored his medals to him.

For many observers of sport, Thorpes name still stands pre-eminent in the list of those who have successfully bridged the gap between top level athletics and American Football.

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Despite paying almost double what any other country in the world pays for health care, the U.S. has declining measures on most health care attributes. We are unhealthy, are prone to heart disease and cancer, and are increasingly overweight. And an increasing number of countries, including those that spend a fraction of what we do on health care, are passing us by.

Weve dealt with these topics on earlier shows from the perspective of national health care policy. This time we ask the question, What can I personally do to live a healthier life? And, How can I make this easy and enjoyable enough that I will actually do it?

Could what we eat have anything to do with it? There is increasing evidence that it does.

Yet our physicians receive almost no training or education in the area of nutrition.

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Podcaster and sports commentator Joe Rogan has been on the carnivore dietthe same diet beloved by certain members of the Bitcoin communityand it turns out he's a big fan.

According to an Instagram post over the weekend, Rogan has seen miraculous changes to this body, his mind, and overall wellbeing.

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In the post, he claims he has lost 12 pounds, has banished his aches and pains and even his vitiligoa skin condition where patches of skin lose their pigmentappears to be less severe. But what is the carnivore diet and why is the Bitcoin community so pumped about it?

The Carnivore diet is, as the name suggests, a diet composed entirely of food derived from animals. So that's no fruits or vegetables, only dairy, eggs, meat, and fish. Apparently, condiments are 'allowed'.

The Carnivore Diet stems from the controversial belief that human ancestral populations ate mostly meat and fish and that high-carb diets are to blame for todays high rates of chronic disease. Its main proponent is Shawn Baker, a former doctor who claims the diet can be used to treat depression, anxiety, arthritis, obesity, diabetes and more.

That's a good question. For the Bitcoin carnivore, there is a kind of metaphysical parallel between decentralized digital ledgers and an imagined idea of what our ancestors ate, and by extension, how they lived.

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"The 20th century was disastrous for human health and wealth, and the rise of central banking and industrial food was clearly a major reason why,"Michael Goldstein, the founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute told Vice."Bitcoin is a revolt against fiat money, and an all-meat diet is a revolt against fiat food."

Saifedean Ammous, a Bitcoin carnivore and a professor of economics at the Lebanese American University, said:

The people who tell you to eat your 6-10 portions of indigestible toxic grains a day for a healthy and balanced diet are the same kind of people who tell you central banks have to determine interest rates for a modern economy to function. You can choose to listen to them and watch your wealth and health disappear, or you can think for yourself.

Members of the Bitcoin community regularly meet up to eat meat and talk Bitcoin. Jimmy Song is one of its highest profile members.

With news of Rogan's tacit endorsement, Bitcoiners have taken to Twitter to ask him if he'd invite Bitcoin carnivores on to his show to spread the good word.

If you're genuinely interested in peer-reviewed science behind high animal fat diets, Nutritionfacts.org, a not-for-profit website that only publishes peer-reviewed medical journals has a useful explainer. TL:DR It's a stupid idea.

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