We Love Paleo Page #7

There are other forms

of processing.

There's something called

interesterification

which involves basically

chopping up fats with enzymes

and then reassembling them

into completely novel fats.

Trans fats are

extremely unhealthy.

They have been linked

to heart disease.

They are a man-made product

by and large.

[Farley] When we eat fat

that's been overheated

or chemically altered,

they're now in a structure

that our body doesn't recognize,

and it doesn't know

what to do with them.

It has to be stored somehow

as a toxin,

maybe surrounded in body fat,

or it causes an inflammation.

It's not

a healthy source of fat,

and our body recognizes it

and has to try to deal with it.

That's why... I mean,

you can see even conventionally,

a lot of manufacturers

are now trying

to reduce the amount

of trans fats

or eliminate

trans fats entirely,

because the evidence

is overwhelming

that they are

an unhealthy source of fat.

On the other hand,

I think there's nothing

to be feared

in fats found naturally

in the diet.

Particularly in whole foods

where you find those fats

naturally within that food.

For example, a piece of meat.

[Irena] When I talk to people

about what I eat,

they get surprised that I'm...

That I look the way that I look,

and I'm not huge...

As big as a couch,

because I do eat

a lot of saturated fat.

You know, I eat lots of eggs,

and lots of butter, um...

meat.

You know, I eat

fatty cuts of meat.

I love my pork belly

and things like that.

I never used to cook

with certain parts of meat.

You know, it was always

chicken breast, steak,

maybe some mincemeat,

sausages.

Kind of your typical

protein sources.

Whereas now, you know,

I'm trying out offal.

I'm trying out

different cuts of meat.

More nose to tail

kind of dining and cooking,

which I think,

A, is more ethical

and, you know,

healthier for the planet,

because we're utilizing

all of the animal.

But it's also very nutritious.

You know, making bone broth

and cooking with all parts

of the meat that you get.

There's two cows worth

of bones in there.

And we start to cook this,

these are the sort of trimmings.

All the gristles, all the bones

go straight into the tub.

We boil them off for two days.

The American customers

come in as well.

They're asking

for it specifically.

I mean,

we sort of market this.

We don't call it

bone broth particularly.

Um, we market it as a moo shot,

which is just a quarter-pound

little tub. There's neck...

Before or after

you've been training,

so it's like a beef tea.

-Do you sell ox blood?

-Oh, yeah.

The amount of animals

that we sort of kill

in the course of a week,

I wouldn't sleep on a night

unless we utilized

every last little bit of it.

Um, you know,

if I'm taking that life,

you've got to have

lots of respect for the creature

and use every last

little bit of it.

Okay, so I'll have them

here at Picnik

if you need them.

Okay, bye.

[Naomi]

So, since everything we do

is local and seasonal,

we change our menu all the time.

So, basically, the way

that we inform customers

of what we have is

we update this lunch board here.

And then we hang little signs

in the fridge,

so people know

what entree they're getting.

I feel like

we work around the clock.

You know, 'cause we're always

trying to keep things updated

in such a small space,

we're always having

to re-merge things

and move stuff around.

And, I mean,

if you guys could see,

like, how funny it is for us

to, like, run out of soup

and clean the soup well

with our little, tiny sinks.

It's... [laughs] It's kind of

a logistical nightmare.

So we just have to try

to figure out so many ways

to work around it.

I mean,

any time someone approaches me,

and they're like,

"I wanna build one of these."

Or, "I wanna build a business

around Paleo."

It's like, you have to know...

Especially trailer living,

it's a 100-hour-a-week job.

Minimum. Minimum.

I mean, constantly,

from the day...

The second

I get up in the morning, baking,

to then running the shop,

to then going home,

and checking in on social media,

and responding to emails.

You do need proper fuel, though,

to keep that, that energy going.

Otherwise, you would never

be able to thrive.

I mean, I think that

the only reason I'm able to work

the amount I'm able to work

is because the nutrition

that I focus on.

So, here's the thing

about saturated fat.

I am, by no means, a scientist.

I am just someone

who loves butter.

I love the way that it tastes.

I love the way it makes me feel.

And the fact that

I eat it every day,

and it makes me feel better,

it makes my brain feel clearer,

and it's made my weight

stabilize 25 pounds lighter

than it used to be.

It makes me feel like

it's a pretty awesome food.

I'm gonna be honest with you.

Suddenly,

I could eat saturated fat,

and I did,

because I hadn't for so many--

for such a long time.

So, I loved it.

Yeah, and I went

all the way for it.

People were worried about that,

and they thought,

"Okay, this can't be healthy."

Of course, I delivered proof

that it did...

that it was healthy, in fact.

It did not completely destroy

my health as was predicted.

We have this notion

that certain fats

cause heart disease

like the ones that we find

in red meat and dairy products,

so-called saturated fat.

That doesn't stand up either.

There really is no evidence

linking saturated fat

with heart disease.

All the things that

we're concerned about

in terms of anti-aging.

So, most women

are preoccupied with this.

You know, we wanna care

about our skin, and our hair,

and so on.

Saturated fats

are extremely important

for this aspect

of kind of cell development.

If you look

at all the major reviews

in the last few years,

and there's been

three or four of them,

none of them

actually link saturated fat

with heart disease.

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[John]

When you think about it,

this whole idea

that saturated fat

does not cause heart disease

may sound vaguely heretical,

okay, because

we've had that drummed into us

for the last 30 or 40 years.

But saturated fat

is a constituent

in... many foods,

including red meat.

Now, you could argue

that red meat has been

in the human diet

for about two

and a half million years,

which would lead you to conclude

that saturated fat

has been in the human diet

for about two

and a half million years.

You look at the foods

that are healthy for us to eat,

and they all have

saturated fats in them,

then what does that tell us?

The egg white comes

with an egg yolk.

The fish protein comes

with the fish fat.

The animal protein comes

with animal fat.

We don't eat egg whites.

We don't eat lean meat.

We don't just remove

the fish oil from the fish

and then eat the fish.

We eat the entire animal.

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