Gain Nutrition Principles #2

A couple weeks back I posted my basic nutrition principles, and how we use them at my house to guide our eating decisions.

I've been reading Daniel Lieberman's new book about our ancestors, Exercised. This inspired me to flip back to a book called Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan. Shanahan presents us with her Four Pillars of Nutrition through examining the similarities between different cultures who have a tendency to live for a long time.

One of the Pilars is to cook and eat meat off the bone. And we've been trying to do that lately, opting for a whole chicken opposed to just chicken breast, or boneless/skinless thighs.

By cooking on the bone, we're getting all sorts of collagen, bone marrow and other nutrients that are absent on the boneless cuts.

While I don't magically feel different, this logic just makes sense to me. Let's eat the whole thing instead of these select, prepackaged cuts. Not only are there health benefits, but it just plain tastes better. Not to mention is much more cost effective.

We'll be continuing to try and eat more bone-in cuts going forward.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain