He looks skeptical, but skip past all the details of what Harry Wallop ate, here's where he ends up: "Curiously, over the four days on the Maha diet I have lost 3lb and gained some strength — I manage 72 push-ups on day 5. The weight loss is almost certainly because I cut out most carbohydrates and I studiously avoided any added sugar...."
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"Curiously..."
Fox Butterfield lives on at the Times!
"Red meat, in particular, is fine. Steak, meatloaf and cream are back on the table of God-fearing Americans. "
I'm so sick of snooty leftist f-heads and their condescending snarling at Christians. F off.
Don't forget to add vegans to your diet for daily fiber and roughage. Protein? Not so much.
At least he tried it.
Everything must be politicized! FFS, this is just another variation of the high-protein diets that have been hyped for decades. Now, eating a steak makes you deplorable.
Looking for the rise in leftist tic toc videos of fat leftists eating donuts….because, TRUMP!
I had a nice salad with real Parmesan cheese and olive oil and some chicken for dinner last night. I can eat like that every day.
I've minimized carbs, mainly bread and pasta, and my skinny ass lost 10 pounds. I do love some good sourdough though!
A diet can't do anything for you in *4* days, can it?
...make me live for ever...
Not "forever"? This version of the word is not my favourite.
In the context of 4 days, "forever" is 4 days.
Added sugar is really the devil.
Please don't read the whole article. I am sure everyone here will want to strangle that stupid arrogant twaat
Yah the strength makes sense. I’m always skeptical of quick weight loss after dietary changes. How many calories did he consume? Fewer? Clearly he burned more with the added digestion/conversion and some more push-ups. The shock from a leftie that he didn’t gain fifty pounds is unsurprising…
The ‘maga’ diet. Riiight…
I have a slice of sourdough bread every morning for breakfast that then I slather with several tablespoons of grass-fed butter and an additional several tablespoons of chunky peanut butter. The perfect accompaniment to very strong coffee.
Keto and Paleo diets are hardly a MAGA concept. Yes traditional, but also very trendy in deep blue places. Mark this as a different-flavor-of-Democratic-beliefs rather than MAGA.
RFK ran as a Democrat in 2024 before the back room cabal crushed him in favor of puppet Joe.
It would be an easier diet to stick to so it's interesting that he lost weight following the guidelines. Of course, he also exercised more. Change your diet to the foods you like, subtract the additives, and exercise more - MAHA forever.
Harry Wallop is now my nickname for my junk. CC, JSM
The weight the guy lost was two and a quarter pounds of water and three quarters of a pound of stored glucose due to a slight reduction in calories likely because the protein and fat heavy diet he was on was extremely satisfying and filling. Notice his first breakfast was a grain cereal and then he was starving at 11:00 a.m. he was completely clueless that this is not part of the Robert f Kennedy Jr make America healthy again diet. That's one of the things about the consumption of highly processed carbohydrates. Remember the old saw about going to a Chinese restaurant and being hungry and half an hour after you eat? That's because Americans were not used to eating that much rice.
In Senegal, Harry Wolof. CC, JSM
You will all be shocked at little you have to eat when you have a diet humans were meant to eat.
"In the context of 4 days, "forever" is 4 days."
#Unexpected Feynman.
Ann Althouse said...
In the context of 4 days, "forever" is 4 days.
He could fast for 4 days too. 4 days is not a very long time diet wise.
Howard said...
Please don't read the whole article. I am sure everyone here will want to strangle that stupid arrogant twaat
The fact that he called it the MAGA diet is insane to me.
The fact that he called it the MAGA diet is insane to me.
Correct. It should be the MAHA diet.
This is just the Atkins diet coming around again. It's what people ate before they lived long enough to get heart disease.
Big Mike said...
The fact that he called it the MAGA diet is insane to me.
Correct. It should be the MAHA diet.
Why is diet political? This is insane.
The reason diet is political is because our food industry uses the government to drive people to eat their food.
Calling a healthy diet a MAGA/MAHA diet is just tricking stupid people to keep eating carbs.
His name is Henry Wallop. But take a look at him. He looks incapable of packing his namesake.
4 days, 3 pounds? I’d say that qualifies him to open a diet center and write a diet book.
This is a couple years behind the trend, but it worked for me. Lost 40lbs a couple years ago, and it was effortless, because you don't get hungry, and my testosterone is mid 700s in my late 60's without any supplements. Carbs are like cocaine - the more you eat the more you want, and they addict you. If you break the diet and have some carbs for a day, the next day you want them again. Last night I had steak with meatballs as a side. I do eat carbs, but less than 1/4 of what I used to. If you want to lose weight and like meat, try it. It's an easy diet once you get started. No starving yourself.
Its just click-bait for the the TDS crowd. Lefties support and love the Food Pyramid fraud because it demonized eating cattle and pigs and the industry that produces the meat. The determination that red meat was deadly was always political.
"So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’"
"No Kings" was a McDonald's cue.
Yea, It's not a MAHA diet. It been around for years and went big way before MAHA was thing.
Trying to make a story out of old news.
> grass-fed butter
I was not aware that butter ate *anything*.
Have "Harry Wallop" and David Brooks ever been seen in the same room together?
Howard is right, you do lose mostly water at the beginning, but that's a good thing, because that quick "success" really motivates you. The most motivating thing is seeing that scale go down, which everyone tells you not to look at, but that's the only easy measurement you got, and you need encouragement to stick with anything. The carbs are always there like the KakBot trying to ruin your success.
This whole experiment regarding the food pyramid will end up being proven one way or another when those who decide to follow the new guidelines - I have been for several years - either end being healthier, slimmer and stronger, or not.
On a side note, I purchased a Lingo continuous glucose monitor from Amazon and found it to be very interesting, fun and enlightening. I found that a single small butter croissant raised my glucose level above 200. That's not good. Also, a hamburger patty with cheese and some ketchup raised it to around 115, but the same burger with a bun raised it to over 200 - bread is not good for me.
Why are leftists so anti-meat?
It has never been about diet, and always been about climate, as if the hundred million buffalo, and tens of thousands of mammoth and mastodons and God knows what else megafauna didn't put out a lot of methane. The putative health benefits of giving up red meat were rationalizations for a policy that they had arrived at for other reasons, and RFKJr is ruining it for them.
Good timing, I just started my keto diet three days ago.
Not to mention that George McGovern was the Senator who oversaw the creation of the old food pyramid, and he was representing a wheat state.
Achilles above, is 100% on the nose.
Amazing we are still arguing about this, 20 some years after the NYTs decided to rehabilitate Atkins.
Dairy has been proscribed because of the way they have to treat the dairy cows to keep them producing milk. Namely removing their young and keeping them in a milk producing state.
"Why are leftists so anti-meat?"
The animals are often adorable, and I love animals, but I think eating meat is my evolutionary and ecological place in the world, and we all die anyway. I would like my body to be given to some lions to eat when I done with it. It's better than burning it up or burying it. Even more fair would be give me to the pigs that are descendants of the ham that sustained me.
I've read plenty of "tried the diet" articles by bloggers and independent journalists. None of them would go 5 days to report they lost 3 pounds and gained strength. They'd go at least 30 days and report periodic med stats like cholesterol or blood pressure.
The guy who ate Purina monkey chow for a month had a much more informative report. Harry Wallop didn't explain anything.
Red meat is the main stay of my diet has been for years. I am still alive and active at 72. I do step aerobics, yoga, strength training weekly. The MOSSA group exercises classes for aerobics and strength. The YMCA has these classes. I do them in an athletic club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1kycGaNvGc
Yes I do the burpees too. I may skip one haha. The power class is resistance training. Hit the Y and eat red meat. Stay out of the nursing home.
@Achilles, point #1 is that “Maga” [sic] is from the headline writer while the text of the article writer semi-correctly uses “Maha.” [sic] Point #2 is that MAHA and MAGA are acronyms, and should therefore be capitalized. Point #3 is that lefty loonies politicize everything. I thought from your myriad other comments over the years that you knew that.
Known Unknown said..."His name is Henry Wallop. But take a look at him. He looks incapable of packing his namesake."
Yeas, he looks more like a dollop.
J Scott said...
Amazing we are still arguing about this, 20 some years after the NYTs decided to rehabilitate Atkins.
My grandmother was reading Atkins books fifty years ago. That it took decades for the establishment to come around on low-carb diets is evidence that nutrition science has been corrupted.
I'm pleased that RFK or Harry Wallop are not trying to get us to eat bugs and meal worms.
"Namely removing their young and keeping them in a milk producing state."
How many rats have to die in order to store and ship and process and sell to consumers, say wheat?
Three years ago I tried a moderately high protein low processed carb vegan diet for three months. I could never overcome the gastrointestinal distress. I tried everything from beano, soaking, sprouting, fermenting and I still was bloated and farting all day long. Besides that, you still need to supplement with vitamin B12 and omega-3 fatty acids which from vegan sources are super expensive.
I've worked in our modern industrial meet industry and it is disgusting and cruel. I'm a little sad about that, but as a result of natural selection as an apex predator, I will always prioritize myself over these poor creatures.
Perhaps one day we will figure out how to have a evolutionary appropriate diet without murdering so many animals. Until then I will unapologetically continue to eat meat.
“ I have a slice of sourdough bread every morning for breakfast that then I slather with several tablespoons of grass-fed butter and an additional several tablespoons of chunky peanut butter. The perfect accompaniment to very strong coffee.”
Homemade sourdough spread with Boursin cheese topped with shredded smoked salmon is a fantastic breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I must admit, TosaGuy, that sounds like a perfect way to start the day. I am going to purchase those items at work today and have that for breakfast tomorrow morning. Thanks for the inspiration.
I’ve posted about this diet before, been on a very low carb modified keto/carnivore diet since June and have lost 35 pounds. After a while you don’t crave the carbs. Vodka and sweets are my weakness otherwise I would probably be down 60 pounds. Dinner last night was a salad, an avocado, 26 grams of sharp cheddar and a 16 ounce steak. Breakfast was a 2 egg omelette, sprinkle of onion, green pepper, cheese and 3 slices of bacon. It works.
Losing weight is simple: calories out must be more than calories in.
That is all that is happening with this guy.
And not for nothing, but what is it with Democrats and their cartoon George Soros's Son Glasses.
They ABSOLUTELY have to virtue signal in EVERY SINGLE THING they do.
’You will all be shocked at little you have to eat when you have a diet humans were meant to eat.’
And without sugar stupor or hunger pangs.
It's not the meat; it's the humility.
’Vodka and sweets are my weakness otherwise I would probably be down 60 pounds.’
I did Atkins decades ago and went from 245 to 205 and have been at 205 +/- ever since. No carbs in vodka and dark chocolate is a miracle drug. :)
Went low carb/carnivore three years ago and lost 40 lbs in 6 months. Kept it off and felt much healthier.
Species that were meant to get major nutrients from plant matter all have one thing in common: the ability to break down cellulose (i.e., "fiber") into simpler carbohydrates. Think of a cow with its four chambered stomach. (Or a ruminant.) Humans do not have this ability. Our near cousin primates that have a more plant based diet has a flipped gut physiology. Their small intestine is short and their large intestine is larger? Why, to promote hind gut fermentation to break down cellulose.
Humans can only process relatively simple sugars and starches. This is the type that tend to be highly seasonal. Fruits aren't hanging from the tree year round. What do humans do in the winter? They don't hibernate like other plant-focused omnivores.
The lowfat hypothesis makes zero sense when you examine evolutionary biology for two seconds. It's obvious that humans have been best adapted to consume fish and game as their major source of nutrition. Plants are a back up or supplementary source. And, the notion that "natural selection" essentially got everything wrong and directed our physiology to require us to eat a diet that is metabolically toxic is preposterous.
It's the lowfat crusaders that are anti-science. This issue is frustrating because the lowfat normies are so fucking condescending and pompous about things they are functionally illiterate about
The problem is that natural selection takes place in response to cultural changes. Some ancient nations in Europe grew wheat, some thought that growing Wheat attracted the Romans, the Romand imposed a wheat economy where they went, since they paid their soldiers in wheat. etc, etc,
So YMMV depending on your genetic heritage.
Somehow the Inuit managed on a diet that included almost no vegetable matter.
Everybody has a system that as long as you assume a vast simplification of the world as it is, works perfectly and they can "prove" it, but almost every proof starts with "assuming."
Bago at 9:43 mirrors my experience. Although I only had 25 to lose!
Also, meatloaf is cheating. Leave out the breadcrumbs.
FormerLawClerk said...
"Losing weight is simple: calories out must be more than calories in."
I used to believe that. Actual experience with a low carb diet to lose weight proved me wrong. It matters, but so does the composition of the foods which provide those calories. Timing too.
Also, you don't have to maintain a strict low carb diet once you reach your desired weight. Moderation then becomes the key. I've got Blue Bell Buttered Pecan in the freezer.
"Wallop" is apparently related to "gallop." Some speculated the name came from the Anglo-American Wallop family. Malcolm Wallop ended up in the US Senate. His sister Jean married "Porchie" Porchester from "The Queen" and ended up in the real-life Downton Abbey.
It's a little confusing. Is red meat fat (saturated fat) now good? Are nut fats (unsaturated fats) still good, if seed oils (unsaturated fats) are bad? Can we take it for granted that trans fats are still very bad?
Summary of Typical 1950s Diet Foods
| Category | 1950s High-Protein Examples
| Meats | Steaks, lamb chops, pork chops, bacon, and ground beef patties. |
| Vegetables | Cauliflower, green beans, asparagus, and leafy salads. |
| Dairy/Eggs | Hard-boiled eggs, cottage cheese, and pats of butter. |
| Restricted | White bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, and sugary desserts. |
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Bagoh20 says;
"....The carbs are always there like the KakBot trying to ruin your success."
That's funny! And it will validate before the day ends.
“Losing weight is simple: calories out must be more than calories in.“
Calories are a simple measurement of how much heat is produced when the compound is burned in air. That’s not at all how a real metabolism works.
Lawnerd said...
Why are leftists so anti-meat?
The peons are anti meat because they are stupid tools.
The corporate masters are anti meat because they make trillions selling processed foods and selling us drugs to deal with the symptoms of metabolic disease.
I’ve always eaten pretty much a MAHA diet, so that photo had me worried. Then I realized he’d only been on it for three days. Whew.
I actually made meatloaf yesterday. Today for dinner: Leftover meatloaf. I put ketchup on a slab, cover it with cheese, and it goes into the toaster over. Yum.
"The problem is that natural selection takes place in response to cultural changes."
No your small intestine is still your small intestine. That's not a "cultural thing"!
Odd that Wallop didn't mention his previous experienceprevious experience.
@Rabel
Thanks for posting that link. It was informative. If you want to be fit you eat appropriate amounts of protein, carbohydrates, and fats. They are just fuel for you to use. Then get your activity. Do the work. It is not flashy. You just have to be consistent and disciplined. That's pretty much been the story of my experience.
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