I find his take on protein really disturbing.
he’s all about animal protein… and I get it. He’s not vegan. He’s not concerned about animal welfare, fine.
But he advocates eating meat for basically most meals. His dinner is steak which, yes is high in protein - but also high in fat, and not the healthy kind.
chicken, turkey and white fish etc is lean animal protein and that’s great. A chicken breast has about 30g of protein. Most people need between 45-55g a day. Someone could feasibly have a chicken breast a day, eat some pulses and oats for breakfast and have hit the required amount of protein they need, without eating as much as he suggests is necessary.
to replace chicken, as an example, in his pasta lunch (even if just a couple of times a week), someone could eat 200g of peas/broccoli for about 10g of protein, maybe have some (100g) beans for another 10g and bulk up on spinach for the remainder of protein.
most people don’t need to consume as much animal meat as he advocates. As a planet we absolutely need to consume less. From an ethical point of view, we absolutely need to consume less.
the only reason someone would need to eat as much animal protein as Bradley advocates.. is if they are aiming for that 10% body fat/are athletes. Most people don’t need to aim for 10% body fat. It’s pure aesthetics and in no way a requirement for good health. Indeed, most women wouldn’t be able to menstruate with body fat that low.
he’s fully within his rights to eat as much meat as he wants, but his rigidity around food really screams of disordered eating to me. His body fat percentage of 10% is basically the lower end of the scale. He’s the lowest he can be while being in the safe zone. The minimum recommended amount of body fat for men is 8%. Having a low body fat and eating steak on the reg for dinner is not very healthy as both are going to be stressors on the cardiovascular system.
And what is “healthy” in the first place is a bit of a loose definition. Bradley throws the word around but I wonder if he’s considered the full meaning of it.
Medically, a healthy individual is someone who is in a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being”. Is obsessing over protein macros in each meal a place of mental well-being? Is inducing shame and judgement for overindulging occasionally and equating not exercising to laziness, a state of mental and social well being? Is the lack of compassion Bradley demonstrates to himself and others, a state of mental and social well-being? I’m not convinced.
And from totally anecdotal experience… I went hiking with my sisters ex-boyfriend many years ago. He was a gym bunny and “health” nut like Bradley. Exercised daily. Had a six pack. He would measure out almonds in his meals because they had the highest protein/lowest fat/calorie content. That kinda thinking.
on said hike, he really struggled. His lower fat reserves meant he didn’t have that backup fuel he needed. And those big muscles? They demand a lot of extra calories. So this guy was burning a shit ton of energy on this hike, very rapidly and didn’t have the energy reserves he needed to compensate. he claimed to have been just over 10% body fat.
The aesthetics that Bradley promotes, and the mindset he promotes - don’t look healthy to me.
is it better than being overweight and depressed? Maybe. But only marginally IMO.
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he’s not a smart guy, one day he’ll get himself cancelled. Give him enough rope and this fella will hang himself
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you don't have to like the film but the message isn't that hard to grasp.
