Here is exactly the drink you need to stir up for your next Taco Tuesday. It’s got a spicy kick from muddled jalapeños to keep things interesting, but just enough sweet tang from the pineapple juice to prevent the heat from overwhelming your taste buds. The colorful punch is sure to be a hit at any and all parties you serve it at, whether there are tacos involved or not.
This month we’re looking back on all the strange and wonderful food jobs people have held during the summer. Whether it’s a job at a local scoop shop, a grocery store, or the concession stand at a baseball field, the skills and memories you gather in those short, hot months usually turn out to be invaluable.
Working a food job in the summer is a rite of passage for many, but as anyone will tell you it’s not all scooping ice cream and flirting with the cuties at the pizza parlor. Some of these summer jobs are plain gross, outrageous, funny, or downright weird. We asked 10 brave souls to tell us their strange and (sometimes) awful experiences with their short-lived summer jobs. Can you relate?
For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering questions from the comment section of last Thursday’s post on CrossFit, Primal, and carbs. First, I use a comment from Dave to expand on the idea of earning your carbs and eating the carbs you earn. Second, I discuss the notion of athletes using cyclical low-carb diets. Would their performance suffer? And finally, I go over a few more starchy carb sources allowed on the Primal eating plan that I forgot to mention last time.
Let’s go.
Dave mentions:
My only issue is that after a lifetime of being overweight my initial instinct is always to restrict carbs when in fact I know that I need more.
Dave, your comment reminded me of something I meant to discuss.
Everyone’s familiar with the idea of “earning your carbs.” If you’re going to eat a lot of carbs, you should earn them by depleting glycogen. Other ways to earn carbs include getting pregnant, being pregnant, and breastfeeding. There’s a subtle flip-side to that, which few realize: If you earn the carbs, eat the carbs.
Folks who kill themselves in the gym, then ignore their bodies’ request for dietary glucose aren’t doing themselves any favors. I love gluconeogenesis as much as the next guy, but if gluconeogenesis can’t keep up with your carb demands—and CrossFit WODs create quite a demand—you should eat some carbs. Refusing to eat carbs when your depleted muscles are screaming for more creates a stress response. That means cortisol, which triggers gluconeogenesis and in excess, blunts fat loss, opposes testosterone, and promotes belly fat accumulation.
Belly fat is terrible for your health. Adipose tissue is an endocrine organ in its own right, and belly fat secretes large amounts of IL-6, an inflammatory cytokine strongly correlated with systemic inflammation.
Some worry about the insulin response. I don’t blame you. Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance are major issues in the modern world. Most people should be trying to limit insulin. But if you time your carb intake right, and you’ve just trained hard, you won’t even need very much insulin to shuttle that glucose into those muscles. You’ll trigger a little pathway called non-insulin dependent glucose uptake, leaving your body free to liberate stored body fat as needed. See how things work out when you earn your carbs then eat them?
Joe wonders:
I’d like to know if someone is fat adapted and employs a cyclical or targeted ketogenic diet can get the same or better results doing competitive crossfit as someone who eats a high carb diet. Any thoughts?
I doubt you’ll see any top Games competitors going cyclical keto. It might work. They just probably wouldn’t take the chance.
That said, I think it could work if you were meticulous about it. And I know that fat-adaptation is going to help any athlete. Everyone can benefit from wringing as much intensity as they can out of fat-burning. Everyone benefits from having a little more glycogen saved for the end.
There was the study I referenced last week where elite walking athletes either went low-carb/high-fat, high-carb/low-fat, or cycled low-carb and high-fat. Both the high-carb and cyclic low-carb groups beat the low-carb group. So clearly cyclic can work, at least for elite race walking. That’s not CrossFit, but it’s the best we have to go on.
Let’s keep a few things in mind when analyzing this study.
The low-carb, high-fat athletes lost a lot of weight. They didn’t set out to lose weight. They were already lean and healthy—elite athletes, remember? When the obese lose weight, performance improves. They’ve got extra weight to lose. When the fit and lean lose weight, performance often suffers. They don’t have anything to lose, so lost weight probably comes from muscle. Allowing ad-lib eating rather than isocaloric eating, as happens in real life, could have prevented the weight loss. Alternatively, the researchers could have added calories to the low-carb group to avoid weight loss.
The study ran for 3 weeks. Three weeks is the bare minimum for an athlete to become keto-adapted. I’d like to see this same study extended for a few more months, allowing optimal adaptation to the diet.
Yet the cyclical low-carb group did just as well as the high-carb group.
Marge mentions:
There are so many more primal sources of high-carb, high-energy foods than are mentioned here… Don’t forget winter squash, turnips, parsnips, beets, plantains… And if you need calorie-density, fry starchy things such as potatoes and plantains in bacon fat til they are crispy! Delicious, nutrient-dense, and sustaining fuel! Use your food imagination!
Yeah, I forgot a few. Thanks for the reminder. I’ll go over the ones you mention, then maybe add them back to the original post.
Winter squash. Underrated. These are the perfect starch source for the person who’s still not quite sure about eating more carbs. A cup of cubed butternut squash contains 16 grams of carbohydrates. Compare that to a cup of cubed sweet potato with 27 grams, or a cup of diced white potato with 28 grams. Winter squash also tends to be a good source of magnesium, potassium, and manganese.
Beets. A cup of beets contains around 13 grams of carbs, mostly sugar. About half of sugar ends up refilling liver glycogen, with the rest being available to muscle glycogen, so beets are fair sources of carbs for athletes. Beets are also good source of potassium, manganese, and folate. Most importantly for athletes, beets have a ton of nitrate, which can boost nitric oxide production and improve endothelial function and blood flow, and improve athletic performance:
If you love Alton Brown’s scientific and thorough way of demystifying cooking, you’re probably thrilled that the show that brought him international prominence, Good Eats, is coming back in a new format.
In this, his new teaser video he posted on social media, he takes you on what may be the spookiest teaser video since the “The Ring” preview.
As you now know, Amazon Prime Day is this week — tomorrow, in fact (with some bonus deals already taking place). With all the hoopla surrounding the company’s made-up holiday, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. What can I get the best deals on? Will something expire or go out of stock before I get a chance to buy it? Should I just take off work to surf Amazon all day? Before you start spiraling, just read this handy guide.
Here’s how to totally win at Amazon Prime Day (read: get all the best deals on the things you need).
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing about Yeti coolers for years. My hardcore camper friends won’t head into the woods without one, and most of the reviewers on Amazon treat the cooler as if it can walk on water (of course, if the water had been in the cooler, it’d be ice!).
I had to get my hands on one to see if it was worth the hype — and the money. The brand’s most popular cooler is the Tundra 45 model (it also happens to be $350), so that’s what I tested out.
In the last couple years, low-calorie ice cream has been taking over the freezer aisle. The creamy treat allows people to go to town on their favorite flavor without worrying about calories (whether this ice cream actually tastes good, of course, is totally a matter of preference.) You might already be familiar with new brands like Halo Top or Enlightened, but now a more established brand is hopping on the bandwagon and will give these trendy new guys a run for their money.
Good morning! It’s a beautiful, sunny day — and it’s been sunny since about 5 a.m. While you’re feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, let’s tackle your kitchen!
“Time is short, but your clarity is high first thing in the morning, so it’s the perfect time for laser organizing,” says Kate Varness of Green Light Organizing. “You can knock off a task in about three minutes — then start your day with a sense of accomplishment!” Here are five things you can tackle this week — just do one each day!
Maybe it’s the wide-open windows, or that bright sun shining a spotlight on every bit of clutter in the house, but summertime makes me want to purge, purge, purge my kitchen! Plus, I use the space totally differently in warm-weather months. “Summer means more frequent and casual get-togethers, friends and kids running through the house, and a desire to keep entertaining easy,” says Tanya Whitford of Organizing Wonders.
So to clear my head — and my space — for a season of carefree entertaining, here are five things I’m throwing away this summer. Consider doing the same!
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For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering questions from the comment section of last Thursday’s post on CrossFit, Primal, and carbs. First, I use a comment from Dave to expand on the idea of earning your carbs and eating the carbs you earn. Second, I discuss the notion of athletes using cyclical low-carb diets. Would their performance suffer? And finally, I go over a few more starchy carb sources allowed on the Primal eating plan that I forgot to mention last time.
For now classes are 6pm and 640pm at 2840 Wildwood st in the Boise Cloggers studio.
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