Personal trainer, Paleo blogger and podcaster Tony Federico is our interview guest today in Episode 742 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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At the recent 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium (#AHS13) in Atlanta, Georgia a couple of months back, Jimmy got to hear a lot of incredible talks about various aspects of nutrition, fitness and health. But there was one presentation that stuck out in his mind as the most innovative and applicable to his listening audience. It was shared by one of his fellow bloggers and podcasters named Tony Federico, a health and fitness specialist who is the man behind the “Live Caveman” blog and host of the “Paleo Magazine Radio” podcast.
Tony’s 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium lecture was a mind-blowing one entitled “Processed Foods and Processed Friends: Is Facebook a Neolithic Agent of Disease?” that may make you put down that iPhone and step away from social media for periods of time. Tony believes that chronic daily use of social media can create dependency and is a threat to emotional and psychological well-being just as over consumption of energy dense foods can lead to diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases of civilization. Moderating the consumption of “processed friends” is just as important as moderating the consumption of processed foods for maintaining and improving total health and wellness. Hmmmm.
Listen to Jimmy and Tony share how he came up with his talk for #AHS13, the reaction he received to his lecture, the role technology should play in the life of a healthy Paleo lifestyle, why social media relationships can be just as toxic to your health as consuming processed foods, three easy ways we can reconnect with the authentic relationships we have in real life, how he became the host of “Paleo Magazine Radio,” the June 2014 release of his book Paleo Grilling: A Modern Caveman’s Guide to Cooking with Fire, and so much more! If you’re like most of us and live virtually online more often than you do in your real life, then perhaps this podcast interview with Tony will give you some things to think about.
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– Tony Federico bio
– Tony’s “Live Caveman” blog
– “Paleo Magazine Radio” (PMR) hosted by Tony Federico
– Tony Federico on Facebook
– 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium (#AHS13)
– Study mentioned in this interview: “Instant messages vs. speech: hormones and why we still need to hear each other”
– COMING JUNE 2014: Paleo Grilling: A Modern Caveman’s Guide to Cooking with Fire by Tony Federico on Fair Winds Press
– RELATED PODCAST: Low-Carb Conversations #30: Tony Federico And Marisa Peer On Cholesterol Myths And Reducing Healthcare Costs
Processed friends don’t just exist in cyberspace–they also exist in real life! They usually take the form of toxic relationships, or even relationships based on toxic foods (think social groups like church events, civic leagues, sports teams, pub crawls, Girls’ Night Out, or even family reunions or employe picnics, where the participants aren’t really there for anything but a sense of obligation). These tend to be groups of people who ordinarily won’t keep company with each other given the choice, but are held loosely together by a common thread: place of employment, church attendance, abode location, or just a love of alcohol (or toxic food), as well as a sense of duty to the group.
Learning how to differentiate between a REAL true friend and a superficial one goes a long way toward cutting back on real-life processed friendships. Why are you hanging out with this person? Why are you doing the things you do to hang out with this person–is it to be LIKED? How important is it to be liked by this person (or those people)–is it worth your health and possibly sanity?
Time is precious–ask yourself this before going to some social activity with “friends”: is THIS how you want to spend it? Could you be doing something more important and worthwhile (like working out) with your time?
We all desperately want to be liked, even to the point of faking something–it’s human nature. But we have to learn to want to be liked by THE RIGHT PEOPLE, and that’s people who care about themselves just like you do. So look for a new common thread that’s relevant to your interests, and the new people will follow. If god is a relevant interest to you, then keep going to those church functions–just find ways to work your other relevant interest (health) into the conversation, and avoid the food. Who knows? Your “collection plate” may one day overflow with new friends and devotees from church.