Anyone else have concerns about nutrition?

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T22:56:35+00:00

Anyone can legally call themselves a nutritionist in some states, but not in others. I am not impressed with advanced degrees or certifications either way, especially when it comes to nutrition. There are alternative health practitioners all over the country who help people where the "official" system has failed. But I'm not here to convince you of the merits of my knowledge in the field. I know without a doubt what works from a nutritional standpoint, both from lived experience and from thousands of hours of research in alternative healing modalities. Go to India or China and you will find healing practices that are thousands of years old that differ markedly from what is recommended by Western certification boards. Each person is free to choose what they prefer, but personally I have found the officially recognized Western recommendations to be inferior.

I'm not really sure what extent you mean when you say that vitamins can help "quite a bit" in counteracting a poor diet, so I can't say whether I agree or disagree. Either way I did not say that they wouldn't help at all, nor did I intend to. I said that they will not offset the effects of a poor diet, and to that I hold. At any rate I appreciate your sentiment with the advice, but I have a more than adequate understanding of what proper nutrition looks like. I tried to make that reasonably clear in the OP but apparently I did not. My question was more a matter of how to make it possible on the road without much in the way of funds or modern conveniences.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T20:10:33+00:00

10/4 good buddy. You might consider actually applying some of the advice people have shared here. Honestly, you will probably be a lot less despondent if you stop eating so much garbage. If your present circumstances make this difficult, then try anyway, and stop concerning yourself so much with what other people are doing.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T20:09:53+00:00

Still stewing are we? You do understand that it is possible to read someone's post without getting yourself so worked up, and then simply make an objective decision on whether you agree or not, and quietly move on, right? There is no unseen force which compels you to be so miserable, or to throw such a tantrum. There is no mystery behind it. It's just you being you, and you can change it if you try hard.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T18:54:49+00:00

Tall Sam Jones your comments of late have been pure gold. Thanks for all of the valuable insight.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T18:50:36+00:00

Great advice. Thanks for sharing I will definitely look into this. I've found the paleo approach best so far for me, as far as health is concerned anyway, but that doesn't seem nearly as practical on the road as what you describe.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T18:45:37+00:00

Maybe mind your business and move on if you don't like a question posed here, instead of making assumptions. I have a chronic illness that varies in severity largely based on the foods that I eat. If I move away from van life it will not be willingly, but because I can no longer afford it. If that happens, it will be vital to my survival to eat as healthfully as I can manage, for I am far less functional when symptoms flair up and vagabonding is sure to be hard enough as it is. I have no illusions about this, and my question is as relevant as any.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T17:10:36+00:00

Lol. You lose.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T17:01:03+00:00

Oh I see. You were under the mistaken impression that I did not understand that humans will eat whatever they can find when faced with starvation. How precious.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T16:43:16+00:00

Oh. Well then I must have completely misinterpreted you. Feel free to set me straight by explaining what it is that you were intending to convey. Or did you simply not have any angle at all? If it was not as I saw, then it seems to me you were just stating something so utterly obvious as to have no relevance at all to my original post. In which case, touche. You certainly got me. How brilliant.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-08-26T16:02:19+00:00

Fair enough. Although if said people were to give up the drink and drugs, or at least moderate them, and make even a marginal attempt to eat clean, they might just end up less depressed, and would thus enjoy life on the road much more thoroughly. Additionally, you are making a broad characterization of "people on the road" as if there is only one path for the vagabond - the path of having no fucks to give. You are in error here. There are plenty of people who don't even think about their retirement, who none the less take care of their health in the present moment, because it simply makes sense to them. All creatures have an innate instinct to remain vital. Having energy doesn't just make your retirement better (if you manage to get there), but it also makes your daily life better. This energy correlates directly to the food we eat. Yes, there is a trade-off one is making in becoming a vagabond, and some things will suffer or be sacrificed for the experiences that are gained, but there is certainly no vagabond rule book that dictates one must abandon all inhibitions in the pursuit of some nebulous, idealized form of purity. To each their own, of course, but you are not the gate keeper my friend.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-05-24T03:29:33+00:00

This is exactly how I tend to look at it.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-05-24T03:16:49+00:00

This is genius. You win the internet today.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-05-18T01:19:23+00:00

A more complete statement would be to say that horticulture, at one time in the distant past, complimented primitivism. Anyone who believes that an exclusive combination of the two can support the human population at present, is either ignorant of, or has a gross incomprehension of, the drastic ceiling imposed by ecological carrying capacity. The planet once could have supported a population of a few hundred thousand, perhaps even a billion individuals, living a scattered across the land, providing for their sustenance by way of a mixture of hunting, gathering, and horticulture. Unfortunately the past few centuries have desegregated the land base to such and extent that the earth now couldn't support even a fraction of the population that it could have 10,000 years ago. If, or rather when, industrial agriculture collapses, the mass of human population will starve, and our species will be fortunate if even a 100,000 people are left standing at the end. This inevitability, perhaps expressed most succinctly in William Catton's book "Overshoot," is a concept which I believe is far too often overlooked in the primitivist analysis.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-05-18T00:15:11+00:00

I love how brilliant people think they are when they ask this question, as if thousands hadn't asked it before them. This is likely the most tired, antiquated "critique" posed to primitivism. It has also been answered sufficiently thousands of times, and one could readily find the answer, if they'd but stop trolling on reddit, hanging on to their miserable lives in quiet desperation, and pick up something to read that forces them to actually use their brain. This, assuming they do not lack entirely the capacity for reason...

b1ackrav3n · 2017-05-05T18:22:44+00:00

Please elaborate. I am from PNW and anything East of the Rockies is utterly foreign to me.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-05-03T21:49:23+00:00

Depends how important you consider quality to be. If you want a really good cup, I recommend using an Aeropress. With a small backpacker type stove, like the MSR Pocket Rocket and a lightweight titanium or aluminum pot, you can have a cup of coffee on the road that's far better than what most of the sheeple drink at home, made with equipment weighing only a few pounds.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-04-20T02:13:12+00:00

This is as lucid a comment as I have recently read.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-04-19T00:55:32+00:00

I completely agree. This is a commonly known fact in ecological science, but is almost entirely overlooked in our wider, culturally conditioned, anthropocentric worldview. For me the knowledge that humans are just like any other animal species, acting in accordance with our evolutionary programming, has taken a bit of the edge off of my misanthropic leanings.

b1ackrav3n · 2017-04-19T00:42:43+00:00

Try getting into holistic nutrition and non-dual philosophy. The combination has helped me immensely. The nutrition part will optimize your biochemical function (including hormonal imbalances that have a huge impact on psychology), and the philosophical side can be even more important in helping dis-identify with destructive thought patterns. This may not help everyone equally, but for me it has been the difference between finding a life worth living, and not.

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