Archive for March, 2009
Beef: King of the US?
Americans eat 150 pounds of “red meat” per capita per year. We eat 60 percent of beef and veal and only 39 percent is pork. One percent is lamb and mutton with goat making an amount too small to measure. At least 39 percent of Americans eat beef once every three days and 31 percent [...]
In: Anthropology, Diet, Populations
The Rise and Fall of Crisco
From the archives…. I read this article on Weston A. Price’s site and I thought it was fascinating. This is what happens when the food industry follows the “expert” recommendation for good health and then when it all goes bad, they are left to pick up the pieces. On April 25, 2001, Proctor and Gamble [...]
Pirie’s Final Race
Gordon Pirie, the former bank clerk from Leeds who became one of Britain’s greatest post-war athletes, was 60 yesterday. After 20 years based in New Zealand, he now lives quietly on the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire, keeps the silver medal he won at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956 in a Sainsbury’s [...]
In: Cancer, Diet, Disease, Running, Vitamins
What Others Said about Pirie…
Book Review by Woody Green Gordon Pirie, a top British distance runner and coach, wrote this book before his death in 1991, but it has only recently been available. It is published privately by the editor, Dr John S Gilbody. Pirie was never one to avoid controversy, and this is part of the reason the [...]
Review of Gordon Pirie
I recently ran in the Cary Distance Run 10k (see results in my “Running Schedule”) and prior to running the race, I rediscovered that which I learned from Gordon Pirie and it was the importance of running with a quick pace and to avoid over-striding. I ran a good race and I was not as [...]
