So, they are touring the UK next year
― Mark G, Friday, 13 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
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― lag∞n, Friday, 13 December 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
this diet :/
http://www.grubstreet.com/2016/08/penn-jillette-thinks-watermelon-is-magic.html
― just sayin, Sunday, 14 August 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
If it worked for him, ok, that's fine. Some people need a drastic change from old habits. Not anything I'd recommend for others. Especially anyone who isn't worth at least a few million dollars and can afford whatever medical assistance they need if things go south.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 15 August 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
he had some awful illness a couple years ago, was painfully thin after.
I guess there's a whole bunch of things he can't eat anymore.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 August 2016 08:04 (seven years ago) link
that's contrary to everything he's publicly said over and over, which is that he lost weight deliberately for health reasons
― Shakey δσς (sic), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
with all that fiber and hot pepper his shits must just be phenomenal
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
I don't see anything wrong with his diet? It doesn't seem as unpleasant as most vegans I know with the fake meats and stuff.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
The blueberry cayenne thing, I'm going to try.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
yeah that piqued my curiosity tbh
― bagging area (map), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
diet sounds pretty healthful to me too, any vegetarians around to weigh in on this? like he says, seems like he eats a lot, it's just mostly fruits and veggies. isn't that what we're all supposed to be doing?
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
He starves himself and then he overeats. He also has periods of not eating nutritiously, which is disguised by all the veggies and fruit he eats, but most of us are guilty of that.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
Intermittent fasting isn't starving yourself.
Only thing that sticks out to me is that it's very light on protein but Furman is largely anti-protein IIRC.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
He describes eating several pounds of food, really prodigious quantities, and he'll follow that up with huge snacks four hours later. And periodically going 36 hours without food sounds more like deprivation than fasting.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
No, that's a pretty standard fasting style - eat dinner, skip a day, eat breakfast.
His 'pounds of food' is watermelon, which has a crazy high water content even for fruit. It's not like eating four pounds of beef or French fries.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
but I don't see any particular health benefit in eating tons of watermelon?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
like it's a nutritious and hydrating fruit to consume but id imagine the absorption of the vitamins in it isn't infinite, and like there's only so much fiber and fruit sugar you really need in a day?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Watermelon has low calorie density (filling but not terribly calorific) and the red pigment is lycopene, the same skin protecting carotenoid that colors tomatoes.
Penn's diet follows Dr. Fuhrman's guidelines, basically caloric restriction with optimal nutrition style, but achieved via ranking foods into seek/reduce/avoid categories rather than the spreadsheets etc. used in CRON, and there are few healthier. Some of Fuhrman's rhetoric about "toxic hunger" is unfounded, and I didn't care for the recipes. Most data sees diminishing returns on fruit and vegetable intake after 8 or so servings a day, and I'm increasingly convinced the health benefit of whole plant based diets owes more to what they don't include (fats and excess protein), so I've opted for a more comfort food diet (ie, more potatoes, beans, & corn tortillas), but I'll sometimes have a Fuhrman-style dinner salad with over a pound of greens, veggies, 'shrooms etc.
― no ends, only meanness (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
It's not just pounds of watermelon. He eats two entrees and rice at the Indian place, and then at the airport he eats two containers of pineapple. He eats four big containers of blueberries, and the "big" containers I get in the stores around here are all 32 ounces. Maybe he means a smaller container, but he says "big." He eats an "insane" amount of watermelon, a "whole" container of cherry tomatoes, a "big, big" bowl of soup, and "a lot" of blueberries; that's just one evening meal. On the 8th, he seems to eat a reasonable amount of food, albeit three meals' worth in the evening, but he appends that entry with "I eat a lot of food," which makes me wonder how large the portions are. For one meal, the base is three pounds of spinach (is one container even a pound?) to which he adds brown rice and four vegetables, including four ears of corn. This is the evening after he eats a store bought wrap, so much peanut butter "it would make you sick," a whole watermelon, and the blueberries snack in the afternoon. At midnight he eats three melons, popcorn, and more peanut butter.
And whose fasting style is this? For what purpose? It sounds like a gimmick diet fast to me.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link