Many years ago, I made a conscious decision to eat healthy. Now eating healthy doesn’t mean venturing off to MCD’s just once per week, as opposed to five. It means adhering to a certain discipline, being aware of everything that enters your fat face. I don’t drink soda, ever. I rarely drink anything but water and I am rather serious about an organic food only diet. Do yourself a favor and research the benefits and learn why eating corn fed beef is an abomination and how pesticides and sugar are poisonous.
For me, the result was a 35 pound weight loss and increased vitality.
Having said all that, the market is on a sugar high now. It’s like one fucking giant bottle of soda that people keep drinking, passing it around, getting fat and stupid off of it.
However, there are some odd things happening in the market. Look at the divergence between natural gas and oil. Understand that low natty is a big win for chemicals and other industries that use it. I feel under-invested today at 50% cash. But I will make money and that is the point, is it not? Being disciplined with a trading strategy and eating healthy share many attributes. namely doing things that go against our inner animal. Let’s face it, we all would love to drink beer, eat steaks and buy tech stocks on margin all day long. But it’s not always good for us.
My rules dictate it’s time to take my foot off the gas and slow things down. I don’t give a shit about faux Chinese numbers or asinine European bailouts. The bottom line is, I am up 7% for the year and we are still in January. It would be piggish of me to ignore the lessons of yesterday for the unknown future that lies ahead.
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What is wrong with eating steaks all day? Nothing.
Nothing if you have good genetics to deal with the saturated fat.
The correlation between saturated fat and heart disease has been thoroughly discredited.
“Let’s face it, we all would love to drink beer, eat steaks and buy tech stocks on margin all day long. But it’s not always good for us.”
Just avoided another relapse.
I agree with you, but I still think we chug higher anyway. Just like that ridonkulous October rally last year.
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Fly, Thanks for spreading the word for good food. The absolute worst thing about feedlot beef is the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cattle to prevent diseases caused by overfeeding them corn.
This has a direct consequence on Human health. That’s the real crime.
Fine, fine post. Real talk.
The strong swimmers always seem to drown. The joggers die young of heart attacks.
The fucking fat and stupid are everywhere.
Ain’t no justice in this world.
First of all, i couldn’t agree with you more diet-wise. Personally, i follow a “primal diet”….tons of grass fed beef, pastured chicken/eggs, i won’t touch corn or wheat with a ten foot pole. My life changed dramatically for the better when i made the switch.
All you need to know is one thing – before they take cows to slaughter, about six weeks before, they switch them over to a “grain” diet to fatten them up. Now, think about it for a moment. What have they done with the american public? Somebody’s got to support the agroconglomerates i guess, but it isn’t me.
Now, as for this market. I don’t like it. I am thinking about doing something i said i wouldn’t do and move all of my passive holdings to cash today. I smell catastrophe on the horizon.
Your past calls have been so accurate, i was dying to know what you are doing today.
And I thought you were just here to see what he does with that can of butane and box of matches.
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A couple years ago there was a movie out called Food Inc. It confirms everything the Fly says about corn fed beef. It’s worth a watch if you can find it.
No offense, but I see these comments about how you justify healthy eating and it makes me laugh. I am not against healthy eating by any stretch of the imagination, and I participate as well. But, some of the “reasons” for converting your unhealthy diet based solely on corn-fed beef is HA-lirious.
Cattle do eat corn in feedlots (for 6 weeks), but this does not mean that they eat corn all of their lives. In fact, most of their life is spent by their mother’s side eating grass. Which by the way, did you know that corn (zea mays) is a grass?
The grain diet is not to “fatten them up”, that’s a secondary result of developing the marbling of the meat.
And just some food for thought: soybean oil and cabbage are higher in estrogen than any serving beef from an animal which has been implanted with a steroidal growth promotant; and the number one environmental contamination source for synthetic hormones is oral contraception.
And don’t use Food, Inc. as a resource for healthly eating. That documentary is chock-full of half-truth, myths, and downright lies.
How do you explain the massive increase in ecoli in red meat?
I imagine you fancy yourself something of an expert because of some life experience that you feel compelled to share. The reality is, you are bad at your job, like most Americans, and have just disqualified yourself from being an authority on this subject.
Cuts to the FDA. We need the money for Iraq embassies.
ecoli exists on the outside of the meat. Searing the outside kills the ecoli. Ground beef should be thoroughly cooked, no red inside. the ecoli on the outside gets ground into the interior and throughout the hamburger. So don’t eat rare hamburgers!
Some appraiser friends of mine appraised a wholesale meat cutting building. They said blood and guts and shit was everywhere, it was unbelievable. They became vegetarians for a short time.
I once worked for a chemical analysis lab. We were contracted to design a wastewater treatment system for a mushroom processing plant, and I had to spend a week there taking water samples. Incredibly unsanitary conditions in the plant. I heard similar stories about cereal and chocolate plants.
However, I was in a hog slaughterhouse that was fairly clean, so there is some hope.
The massive “increase” in e-coli in red meat stems from the sheer quantity of red meat that is handled in America. The production of red meat in America has gone up 100 fold over the last decade. History proves that the meat that you purchase at a butcher/grocery store is as safe as ever. And when last I checked, vegetables are not a safe haven from e-coli either. How do you explain that?
I do not imagine that I am an expert on this subject, and I am not a farmer by trade, but rather an engineer. Having grown up around agriculture and being an integral part of it, I wanted to make people aware that watching one movie and listening to random opinions of others is not the correct way to justify diet changes.
And it’s not the producers fault that beef that is shipped 2,000 miles from the source becomes contaminated by befuddled bad-at-their-job Americans.
@True Farmer – There is no way you can justify the use of antibiotics on healthy animals. You and I both know they are fed the antibiotics to “prevent” infections due to feeding cattle more grain then their bodies can handle. This is why we are dealing with MRSA and the overall increase in antibiotic resistant infections.
If you don’t believe me ask your doctor. If you don’t believe him or her, I’m sure I can put you in touch with someone in the medical profession who can convince you of the danger.
@Yogi & Boo Boo – Actually research by dozens of research organizations/groups points to the overuse and improper
use of antibiotics in humans as the leading
cause of human antibiotic resistance.
And asking your doctor about MRSA and antibiotic resistant infections is the definition of redundant. Who do you think he’s going to blame?
Nice!
I call bullshit on your “studies”. If you have ever had the experience of a systemic infection and needed the most powerful antibiotic to keep you from death (I have), you would see the problem in a different. more objective light. Here’s a link, via wired, to the FDA and their first estimate of the amount of antibiotics used in feed. http://tinyurl.com/4mran46
I’m familar with the FDA’s release. That’s all fine and dandy, but do you have anything to compare it do official human consumed antibiotics? No? Well let’s use the unverified 60-80% of the antibiotics used go to animals. Great, surely they incorporated the weight of humans versus animals no? Nope, they didn’t, and when last I checked you don’t weigh 1,500 lbs like a feeder does.
To get a REAL feel for the half-truth, you need to take into account the percentage of antibiotics used per pound of animals versus the same for humans. So roughly 110 million cattle in America, average weight is 1,000 lbs, equals 110 billion. Population of America is 300 million times the average weight of a human of say 200 lbs equals 60 billion. Hmmmmm And that doesn’t take into account pigs, sheep, horses, etc. etc.
Bogus. I call bullshit on your “interpretation”
@ True Farmer — is marbling not fat? I mean, is the grain diet not specifically used to induce marbling and is marbling not fat?
The bottom line is grain fed beef is higher in unhealthy fats than grass fed beef. It tastes better, i’ll grant you…but it is unhealthy.
@HuggieBear – Marbling is fat. The hick definition of “fattening-up” is increasing the thickness of the layer of fat below the animal’s skin (i.e. increasing the weight of the animal for increased profit).
And that is the bottom line, pound for pound, grain-fed has more calories than grass-fed. That’s the unhealthy decision that you’re faced with no matter what you eat.
Pay no mind to the “NEWSWEEK” subscribers.
The real scam is “grass fed cattle”. Most are just finished on grass to fulfill the usda requirements. If you want real red meat, eat bison!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixyrCNVVGA&feature=share
A TED talk by a former Wall Street analyst on how food is making people sick.
Food allergies from modified proteins in food in the States.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixyrCNVVGA&feature=share
Thanks to the inspirational writings of Le Fly, I have become a vegetarian.
Ribeyes are my favourite (sic) vegetable.
Haven’t you heard, the GOP made pizza sauce a vegetable, too!
The Occupy crowd too! Another bunch of vegetables.
Be gone, vile political lackeys of every stripe!
A Breitbart/Huffington chainsaw battle to the death is the only political debate I’m interested in hearing.
I’d pay good money to see that.
Fat people rule. They are strong. If you are out of the market now, too bad. the biggest part of the move may have been missed.
LQMT — purchased this morning for .16. These folks make the coating on the helments that the Oregon Ducks wore in the Rose Bowl.
http://www.kval.com/news/consumertips/Fans-snap-up-1000-helmet-replicas-137219328.html
Disregard — bought first asked questions later. Technology is Liquid Metal, Hydrographics does the actual work.
http://www.oregonlive.com/playbooks-profits/index.ssf/2011/12/post.html
The energy benefits and the discipline required from being vegan/vegetarian is entirely worth the cost for me. At 22 (I’m not allowed on this site, i know) I have more discipline than most high level managers I know and my energy level rarely ever drops down. I snowboard all day and work in the evenings with incredible amounts of energy.
Heck, just yesterday I had a meeting with the CEO of a huge Ski Resort and impressed him more than he could believe. Habit begets habit they say, practicing discipline and professionalism in the little things trickles down into every part of your life.
Senor, Have you read anything on alkalinizing your body/do you actively work towards that?
I have heard briefly about the acidity levels of the body. How do you alkalinize? Less grains and meat, more vegies?
More triple AAA Duracells, straight up, or with a sidecar of Hendrick’s Gin.
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Knowing you, and your great stock picks like AGQ, I would think you use those triple A’s for that ass vibe.
That’s great progress on the physical fitness front, Fly. Good job man.
KUTV, damn cuz.
Here’s my problem with organic: How do we know the money grubbing farmers are telling us the truth? How do we know they aren’t using pesticides, or that the animals are truly “range free” and are “grass fed”?
These aholes could just be clowning us. Did you go on a similar, non organic diet and if so, what were your results?
There goes ENER yet again up 39% today and it is no longer a penny stock…
On the other hand I don’t understand the falling price of UNG in the natural gas space seems like a good buy at these prices.
Yup … So I added ECA
ECA or CHK, But I agree ECA looks like the better buy right here.
No offense Sir Fly but i saw your pic on your facebook page a couple of years ago and it looked like you could’ve hula-hooped through a cheerio.
doubtful.
Glazed doughnut?
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Apparently both TLT and SPY can go straight to the fucking moon. Oh, and GLD and USO. All of it is going straight up.
Fly. Eat healthy. Train your body hard. Play lots of chess (Muscle milk for the brain).
I do all the above. Still can’t figure out how to quit coffee. Its my one allowable vice 🙂
Grass fed beef tastes like shit. A supplimental diet of milo (sorghum) and fresh wet corn on the cob is the best, especially if the grains are grown on the ranch where the beef resides.
I disagree. Grass fed tastes better.
By definition, grass fed is less fatty.
Less fatty is less tasty.
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all depends on your preference. Who says fatty tastes appeals to everyone?
Bravo Fly! Another thing to consider very seriously is animal cruelty issues…it really goes hand-in-hand. There are many disturbing videos on the web and it is insane how the world has become over eating animal flesh and not giving a fuck about what, why, or how the animal flesh made it out into the grocery store. Long veganism and SSO puts.
You see what you’ve started now?
Oy vey.
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Whatever I’m bullish…. this is the Santa Rally that keeps on giving. More turkey please.
Very interesting dialogue going on here today says the pharmacist. I will stay out of the fray.
Also, eat Blue Ribbon Angus: http://www.hearstranch.com/
just got back from gene and judes hot dogs.rated best in country by wsj. fries,cut and cooked in front of you. they sold the lot next door to mcd, they out do mcd 10-1 on any day……
comedy
http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/16/10170320-did-paula-deens-diet-cause-her-diabetes
Healthy body is hot.
True Farmer is a G!
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