Curt Frieden's Damn Blog

Oh how the times have changed…

March 24th, 2010. Published under Main Content. No Comments.

Do you remember the days of going to the grocery store, when you could just go to the meat section and choose  a piece of meat with some degree of confidence that you’re actually getting the real thing.  As in, getting a piece of meat that wasn’t injected with growth hormones or some super feed?

Or how about the days when “natural” and “artificial” flavoring wasn’t even in our vocabulary.  Or perhaps when you saw a label that something had anything “natural” in it, you were confident that it was, well… natural.

Oh how the times have changed.

Nowadays going to the super market and actually reading the ingredients on the food that you buy can be like reading a short novel.  With so many chemicals and lab produced foods and flavors, it’s no wonder why the US is currently the  fattest country in the world according to NationMaster.com (I admittedly have no idea how accurate they are).

Over the last 20-30 years our food supply has become industrialized.  In fact, chances are most people my age have NEVER had beef from a grass fed cattle.  Pretty shocking if you ask me.  Especially considering the cattle’s current feed, corn, is so terrible for the cattle that it literally destroys their internal organs.

Yup, cows aren’t supposed to eat corn.  They’re supposed to eat grass just like all those pictures you see on your dairy products (and nope, those cows generally aren’t fed grass either).

It’s truly amazing to me what we’ve done.

We now live in a country where people go to fast food restaurants to eat off their value meals because it’s CHEAPER to buy a cheeseburger than it is to buy food at a grocery store and make it yourself.  And that’s not even if you want to eat organic foods which is a whole other topic all together.

I’m truly shocked at what is our current reality.

Now in my last blog post I said this blog is going to take on a different direction and I’m sorry to say I kind of lied.

I’m not going to dedicate this blog to my insane obsession that is our food supply.

Instead, I’m going to be creating a completely new blog to do it.  To share all of my findings and merely inform you and anyone else willing to listen of what the reality is that we live in.

Be on the lookout.  I’ll post the new link soon.

Cheers,

–Curt

Wow… It’s been a while.

March 9th, 2010. Published under Main Content. No Comments.

It seems like this always happens.

I get all excited and think that I’m going to be super dedicated to actually blogging only to eventually end up being lazy and let the thing sit for a while.

My bad.

Anyway, if you’re at all interested in how I did in my 14 week challenge, I didn’t quite hit my goal, but I did come close.  I ended up losing 20 pounds and got in pretty darn good shape.  Since then, I’ve fluctuated a little but my weight seems to be for the most part under control but I’m working on a new program now.

So… with all that being said, what’s next?

Well, I’ve never really found something that I was truly passionate about blogging about until recently (well, minus anything regarding the Mac but you can just check me out on Twitter for those updates ).

But I’ve finally found something that I’m becoming extremely passionate about.  And something that I think the world (at least Americans) really need to know about.

There’s information about it out there, but not enough if you ask me.

Most people have no idea what’s really going on (and I’m no expert either…yet) but they have the right to know.

So be on the look out (if anyone actually reads this thing) to see what this is all about and what’s gonna happen next.

I think you might be pretty surprised at the information I’m about to reveal to you.

Talk soon,

–Curt