If yous are non familiar with the American TV demo What Not to Wear (which was based on the British version), yous mightiness desire to skip this post. Without a thorough steeping inward the ins as well as outs of that show, this post service volition non brand whatsoever sense to you. I could accept fourth dimension (and several hundred words) to explicate it, but honestly, if I do that, I guarantee the magic of the demo volition lose something inward translation. So if you’ve never seen WNTW, no worries. Just sit down tight as well as hold off until I post service something else. (If yous were hoping to kill some fourth dimension with i of my super-long posts, accept a few seconds as well as learn banking concern jibe out the majority I reviewed here. Hard to say which i I similar more. (Actually, no. It's Gaining Ground.) Frankly, this guy is a friggin’ dynamite author [and farmer!], as well as both books are excellent. Growing Tomorrow review coming soon!)
For the remainder of you, if yous have seen WNTW, I recollect you’ll handgrip that I have got a i 1000 m dollar thought here.
I recollect at that spot should hold upwards a demo called What Not to Eat, closely modeled after WNTW. It would hold upwards only similar WNTW, except instead of a wardrobe makeover, someone would have a diet makeover. On WNTW, the mortal was typically nominated—unbeknownst to them—by friends or identify unit of measurement who thought they were dressing inappropriately inward some way. The friends & identify unit of measurement did it out of dearest as well as wanting to demo this mortal how much to a greater extent than was out at that spot for them—professionally, romantically, whatever—that they were closing themselves off from based on the means they dressed. On WNTE, nosotros could have got something similar—concerned friends as well as identify unit of measurement staging a sort of “intervention,” OR, people could nominate themselves, if they’ve arrived at a betoken of recognizing that they demand a nutritional overhaul. I recollect self-nominating would belike hold upwards best, if only because, for whatever reason, what people eat is a WAY touchier dependent area than what they wear. Seriously. People have got belike gotten divorced and/or lost friends over soybean crude as well as gluten, for crissake. Heaven knows warring dietary dogmas do come inward the means of otherwise overnice relationships.
Instead of fashion experts Stacy as well as Clinton, the demo would hold upwards hosted yesteryear a nutritionist (or a pair of nutritionists, if network execs desire to move along the male/female dynamic going). And only similar Stacy as well as Clinton started the demo yesteryear having a heart-to-heart with the subject, excavation deep as well as bespeak soul-searching questions to learn the mortal to admit as well as empathize why they were dressing the means they were, the nutritionists could have got a conversation with the mortal to learn at the midpoint of why they consume the means they do. Budget constraints? Time constraints? Sugar addiction? Loneliness? Don’t know how to cook? Using nutrient to numb emotional pain? Terrified to consume fat? Ethical dilemmas around the number of eating meat or dairy?
You tin sack come across that a lot of personal “stuff” would come upwards up. Difficult, ugly, embarrassing, scary stuff, which would hold upwards really difficult for someone to admit on TV, but which could aid potentially millions of viewers who have got the same struggles. (If yous have got ever thrown away junk nutrient inward an travail to learn it out of sight, as well as preferably out of mind, only to learn dorsum later, accept it out of the trash, as well as have got some more, I am yous are non the only one.)
What Not to Eat would follow largely the same format equally WNTW, replacing wearable with food. Just similar Stacy as well as Clinton would learn through the person’s cupboard as well as perform a huge “purge,” getting rid of everything that was non suitable, the nutritionists could learn through the pantry, fridge, as well as freezer, getting rid of everything inappropriate for the person’s electrical current state of wellness as well as hereafter goals. (Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention: the initial heart-to-heart would besides include a detailed medical & dietary history, addition setting goals as well as priorities. For example: fatty loss, relief of chronic pain, ameliorate blood carbohydrate control, reduction of midpoint illness risk, reversal of insulin resistance, supporting fertility, reduction inward or elimination of medication, etc. Obviously, at that spot would have got to hold upwards an MD involved. So perchance it could hold upwards a nutritionist as well as an MD, rather than 2 nutritionists. Oh, man…who could it be? Me & Ted Naiman? Me & Aseem Malhotra? Franziska Spritzler & Eric Westman? The possibilities are endless!)
The funny affair is, depending on where people are starting from, some of them would belike terminate upwards with a nutritional intervention opposite from what they were expecting. The 45-year-old pre-diabetic manlike mortal truck driver with gout as well as a beer gut, who’s on blood pressure level meds as well as a statin? The argue he’s never seen a nutritionist earlier is because he’s certainly she’d tell him he needs to halt eating cerise meat, butter, bacon, as well as cheese. Lettuce as well as celery sticks would hold upwards his novel best friends, as well as if he’s gotta pass the remainder of his life eating similar a rabbit, as well as then dammit, he’d rather exceed from a midpoint attack! (Cue the low-carb nutritionist…)
Or the 23-year-old daughter who’s working her foremost project out of college, lx hours a week, addition doing intense exercise half dozen days a calendar week (maybe spin grade at v a.m. as well as and then a heavy lifting session after work), addition planning her wedding, as well as attempting to do this on 1200 calories per 24-hour interval of mostly quinoa, raw kale, vegan hot dogs, and, when she’s peculiarly hungry, a 3rd of an avocado inward her huckleberry chia smoothie. (Cue the low-carb, high fat, non-vegan nutritionist…)
Guided yesteryear the person’s electrical current state of health, goals as well as priorities, the large kitchen purge would non hold upwards only well-nigh getting rid of the materials that’s non appropriate. It would hold upwards an chance to educate the mortal (and millions of viewers) equally to why those items are non appropriate. (Type 2 diabetic? Perhaps the toaster waffles as well as orangish juice aren’t the ideal breakfast for you. Rheumatoid arthritis flaring upwards daily? Maybe yous desire to rethink the pasta with love apple tree sauce as well as eggplant. Trying to lose weight? Starting the 24-hour interval with a ginormous insulin spike via a fat-free bran muffin with raspberry jam as well as drinking glass of skim milk belike isn’t the most effective means to achieve that goal.) Just similar Stacy as well as Clinton would select people inward front end of a mirror as well as demo them why their wearable wasn’t doing them whatsoever favors, the nutritionists could furnish some basic explanations well-nigh human physiology as well as metabolism thus that the logic starts sinking in. (Because eventually, these people are going to have got to brand nutrient choices for themselves, as well as they’ll demand the cognition to guide them.)
The beauty of this is that it tin sack hold upwards totally customized for the private inward question. Stacy as well as Clinton gave people makeovers as well as wardrobe overhauls, but they did it inward such a means equally to permit the mortal retain some of their individuality as well as quirkiness, without scaring off potential employers and/or suitors. The same could hold upwards done for diet. These days, at that spot are thus many substitutions easily made: cauliflower for rice as well as potatoes; shirataki noodles for pasta; grain-free or low-carb bread, cookie, muffin, as well as cake recipes. OR: the nutritionists could pattern programs tailored to people’s unique flat of carb tolerance, dairy sensitivity, etc. That is, they could aid figure out the amount of “wiggle room” someone has for consuming the things they dearest without causing metabolic harm. (For example, I consume H2O ice cream, bread, black chocolate, as well as I drinkable wine. Not a ton, as well as non often, but I do really much savor these things from fourth dimension to time, as well as I’ve been at this long plenty that I know how much I tin sack “get away with” as well as nonetheless hold upwards happy with the means I aspect as well as feel, as well as what my bloodwork shows. [Wait, what? You thought I was a low-carb saint? You establish me because yous were looking for someone to handgrip upwards equally your inspiration for dietary perfectionism? Sorry. WRONG BLOG FOR YOU.])
Back to my point: there are plenty of people who do non demand to hold upwards 100% gluten, sugar, soy, or dairy free. If you’ve ever combed through the success stories on Mark’s Daily Apple, as well as then you’ve read countless stories of people who do only fine yesteryear mostly cleaning upwards their diet as well as doing intelligent exercise, but who nonetheless savor a weekly feast at the local Mexican place, consummate with rice & beans, or a monthly appointment at the Greek identify for hummus, pita, as well as rice-stuffed dolmas, or who have got a drinking glass of vino a brace nights a week, as well as keep their weight loss, hurting relief, lack of medication, clear skin, or whatever else they experienced yesteryear going Primal.
So while, at to the lowest degree inward my vision for this show, things would lean toward Paleo, Primal, as well as low-carb (the grade of the latter determined yesteryear the grade to which someone is insulin resistant or diabetic), it would hold upwards completely personalized. It would hold upwards tailored for nutrient allergies as well as sensitivities, chronic atmospheric condition that demand to hold upwards managed/reversed, etc. Maybe it would hold upwards gluten free, perchance not. Maybe dairy free, perchance not. Maybe no nightshades or legumes of whatsoever kind. Maybe it would hold upwards very low-carb, perchance moderate, perchance medium, depending on someone’s action level, athletic functioning goals, etc.
Things could besides hold upwards customized for budget. This is a critical issue, because top-quality nutrient doesn’t come upwards cheap. (On the other hand, equally I have got written well-nigh before, the goodness materials isn’t ever equally expensive equally people recollect it is.) On WNTW, cost was non an number because the mortal was given $5000 to pass on a whole novel wardrobe. For food, someone would pass far less than that, but they’d hold upwards shopping far to a greater extent than often. So the demo wouldn’t give them money; rather, nosotros would come across what the person’s nutrient budget is, as well as come across how to learn the best strike for their buck piece staying inside that constraint. Maybe they could afford super-yellow summertime butter from grassfed cows at a local dairy farm, but they’d learn conventional beef from the supermarket. Or perchance they’d prioritize getting grassfed beef as well as pastured pork as well as non worry well-nigh non-organic vegetables as well as nuts. Or perchance someone’s budget is really tight, as well as all they tin sack afford is what’s on sale at the local supermarket, conventional all the way. THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY OKAY. Better conventional beef as well as chicken than sugar-laden granola as well as breakfast cereals. This demo would educate people well-nigh the importance of nutrient from local, sustainable farms, as well as emphasize the superior nutrient density of such foods, but if I had whatsoever say inward it, it would non engage inward nutrient lineament “shaming” at all.
Another fun aspect of WNTW was when Stacy as well as Clinton would learn shopping with the person. Same on WNTE! The nutritionists would learn nutrient shopping with the person, as well as it could hold upwards to wherever that mortal commonly shops: regular supermarket, Trader Joes, “upscale” identify similar Whole Foods, or fifty-fifty a local farmers’ market. (And if the mortal has avoided farmers’ markets because they recollect they’re only for crunchy hippies as well as the neat unwashed, they could come across that marketplace customers run the gamut of the whole human spectrum.) The neat affair is, the nutritionists could besides innovate people to places that would hold upwards neat for them to shop, but perchance they had never considered before, similar an ethnic Asian or Latin American market. (Dude, if you’re looking for actually interesting organ meats, odd vegetables as well as fruits, spices as well as seasonings yous mightiness have got never fifty-fifty seen before, and, to a greater extent than often than non speaking, nutrient for super cheap, these places are your novel best friends.) And only similar Stacy as well as Clinton would aid people navigate the wearable stores, steering them away from their onetime favorites as well as helping them empathize why other items would run ameliorate for them, the nutritionists could walk people through the store aisles as well as instruct them how to read labels thus equally non to hold upwards taken inward yesteryear bogus “healthwashing” claims. (Lesson 1: organic, gluten-free, artisanal junk nutrient is still junk food!) They would besides focus on looking non only at the macronutrient breakdowns (fat, protein, carbs), but besides at the ingredients. Something tin sack hold upwards “low carb,” but loaded with cottonseed oil, hydrogenated canola oil, as well as hydrolyzed corn protein. (Yum!)
Okay. Let’s learn dorsum to what I said at the start of this post.
Seriously: tell me this isn’t a i 1000 m dollar idea.
I am non suggesting that I hold upwards i of the nutritionists on the demo (although I would hold upwards opened upwards to the possibility!). I would non expect to hold upwards inward front end of the camera. (I mightiness hold upwards kinda cute, but I’m non TV cute.) But if I’m non role of the demo inward a large way, as well as then all I enquire is that the network at to the lowest degree ship me a large pile of cash for coming upwards with the idea. (Or brand me a consultant behind the scenes…even better!)
I to a greater extent than often than non cannot stand upwards reality TV as well as I avoid it almost entirely. (Except for WNTW, which was, inward my opinion, completely dissimilar from the full garbage, drivel, as well as morally bankrupt crap on TV now.) But this is something I mightiness hold upwards tempted to melody inward for!
P.S. Clinton Kelly is directly on The Chew, amongst i of my favorite “celebrichefs,” Michael Symon. (How tin sack yous not similar a guy who wrote a cookbook called Carnivore?) Chef Symon oftentimes sings the praises of pork, pork fat, local farms, farmers’ markets, as well as old-school butcher shops. [If yous alive inward NYC, Dickson’s Farmstand Meats is i of his favorites. All charcuterie made in-house, as well as all meat supplied from small-scale identify unit of measurement farms inward upstate NY!)
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