Primal Nutrition Cowboy

Once in a great post, a cowboy’s got to talk health.

That post has come and I’d like to express my gratification with Mark’s Sisson’s Primal Blueprint. It’s a cowboy’s way of staying healthy. Why do I say this.

Because of chili.

All common folk know a cowboy’s favorite meal is a hearty bowl of trail-cooked chili. Chunks of beef slopped in with tomatoes and chilis, spiced with enough cumin and hot pepper to send children running, and slopped into a bowl the size of a ten gallon hat.

And chili just happens to line up with the caveman diet, or the paleo diet, or– as Mark calls it– the Primal Diet. No sugar, no grains, no unwanted carbs in a bowl of chili. Just good old fashioned meats and vegetables.

Of course, even a cowboy needs omega 3 supplements. So, I always take a couple omega 3 vitamins with my spicy stew. It helps with the damage control.

So get out there and wrangle yourself up a bowl of the wild west’s finest meal. And leave out the beans!

In these modern days of superheroes and rockstars, how do you make a kid take an interest in the Wild West?

This is especially difficult as most modern Westerns are bloody, gritty, cold movies. I’m not saying they’re bad movies, I’m just saying I won’t take my six year old.

Disney came up with a solution (don’t they always?).

The Country Bears.

Don’t laugh–or do– but my six year old loves the country bears. They’re big and silly, and a cute way to introduce a child to the fun of the old west. His favorite Country Bears song is “Blood on the Saddle”

“There’s blood on the saddle
And blood on the ground
There’s blood on the saddle
There’s blood all around.”

Simple. Funny, and really pretty gory when you think about it. But the tone of the song, and the drulling, goofy, melancholy bear that sings it make it great kids fare.

It may not be the best solution, not like Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy of our youth, but it’ll do till he’s a year or two older.

Now for my health stops. Rustle yourself up some washboard abs by visiting this damage control blog. Then get yerself some vitamins online.