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!

I never thought to say I’d have a favorite author, but I finally found one.

I picked up Cormac McCarthy about two years ago, when his most recent book had just been published. The book was called ‘The Road,’ and it was a bleak post apocalyptic travel story. I’m not much for science fiction and fantasy mumbo jumbo nonsense, but this book was something else. I swallowed it down and immidiately went out for ‘No Country For Old Men.’ Even Better.

Now I’m reading his ‘Blood Meridian,’ and I do believe it’s the best Western I’ve ever read. The writing is hard and cold, and thick with prairie lexicon. The main character is a young kid, thrown fast in to the long, dry desert of Mexico. Everything he passes dies, or is killed, or is just dead to begin with. There is no harder life, and McCarthy pulls the pain and blood from the wild west and makes in real and lucid, and tangible.

I believe I’ll spend the rest of this post listing some of the haunting images from Blood Meridian:

- Holding a man down while another man kicks his face in.
- Cutting off the bottom of a man’s feet and letting him crawl across the desert naked back to town.
- Stuffing a man’s head in a carboy and displaying it to a whole village.
- Waking in the night to find an old, grizzled hermit leaning toward you, breathing heavily.
- Breaking a liquor bottle over a bar, and jamming it into the bartender’s eye.
- worms crawling into the living flesh of a man’s bloated arm, as he struggles to drink from a soaked, muddy shirt with the other arm.

Yes sir, it’s a hard life for a cowboy.

But it’s no hard life for you as long as you keep taking your vitamins. Omega 3 vitamins and a website where you can buy vitamin supplements are two of the health blogs I’m bringing to you, this month. I’ll probably write again sometime in march with a new health blog. And by then, who knows, I may just have finished the McCarthy opus.

I am a blessed man as I have family and friends to be with in the cold winter months. I still eat a Christmas ham with my mother and my brothers and my loving wife and children. But I’d like to take my hat off to the cowboys of yester year who had no family to return to on Christmas.

True Cowboy’s were often lost men. Time’s were hard after the Civil War. The nation was still broken apart. People were still angry. Not everything mends with a few new laws. The wild west was the last stop for people with nothing left.

Ranching and gold mining offered wealth to the horsemen and former soldiers, but it couldn’t offer a new family. These men were tough. But everyone feels the pull of loneliness in a time set aside for family, Christmas Time. It is no wonder that more cowboy deaths were reported in the month of December than any other month between 1860-1895. These weren’t straight cases of suicide, more often they were barroom brawls, or raids against indians, or simple starvation, but something of the lonely nature creeping into the back of a cowboy’s mind can lead him to the most dangerous situations. Danger, like death, is an escape from something. That’s why men of the west seek it. That’s why so many seek it today.

Alright, enough with my cowboy philosophy, let’s get to the link roundup. Orac value, the vitamin shoppe, and omega 3 vitamins are my three health links for the week. I hope you enjoy, and merry Christmas to whoever you are, whether the grandmother of twenty grandchildren, or the man all alone at a no end motel.