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John: Alright, this is John Kohler with okraw.com. Today I have another exciting episode for
you. This is going to be definitely very special and we got special guest Doug Graham with
us today to answer a very important question about the 80-10-10 diet and the simple question
is simply this. Doug, you know, I've seen online or maybe heard that, you know, the
80-10-10 diet is pretty boring. You might 30 bananas a day and a head of romaine tonight
and do the same thing tomorrow, and, I mean, just like if you go to McDonalds in California
or New York City, you get the same exact hamburger. I mean, is the 80-10-10 diet really that boring.
Are you always eating the same thing or are you getting variety. Tell me.
Doug: One of the beauties of the 80-10-10 diet is the very fact that you never get the
same thing twice. You almost never get the same thing twice. If you want the same thing
twice, it's a little frustrating because you can't even get the same thing twice. You pull
a tomato of your tomato plant because it tastes incredible and then you try to make something
with it and it comes out astonishing and the next you go out and get another tomato off
your tomato plant and it's not the same as the last tomato. It's good, but it's not the
same ad you go, 'oh, at least you could've,' and it's pretty hard to make the same things
twice, in fact, but the beauty in natures plan is that so much variety is built in.
I mean, different fruits come in different seasons, there's times when the produce, I
mean, when the fruit is at it's lowest price it's usually at it's best taste, and so you
can have the most of it. You get tremendous variety. When I have kept track, and I don't
try to get too *** about my food, but when I have kept track or made lists and I realized,
wow, on an average year I eat about 200 different fruits. On an average year I eat about 50
different vegetables and about 15-20 various fatty things from fatty fruits, nuts, seeds,
all that area of fatty fruits. So, all together, I'm usually eating about 260-270 different
foods and then maybe about another dozen or two various flavors like cilantro or basil
or dill or something like that, various mild flavors. So, it's close to 300 different tastes
before we start combining any of them at all. When I look at what most people eat, I mean,
we look at them in America and you see that the most commonly eaten food is pizza. I mean,
and I'm making that many kinds but the most commonly eaten food is pizza, and next behind
it is hamburger and you go, 'most people have like Monday night is chicken, and Tuesday
night is fish, and Wednesday night is meat on the Barbie and then they're having pizza,
pizza, pizza, and then we're back to hamburger, and' I mean, they're eating pizza something
like 6 or almost 7 times a week now for either lunch or dinner, sometimes for breakfast,
and I think about how people eat. It's sort of funny because most people eat the same
thing for breakfast every day, or some kind of routine. They either have cereal for breakfast
every day or they have a sandwich for breakfast every day or they have coffee and toast for
breakfast every day. People tend, we tend to get very patterned with our food and so
it, people say, 'I don't want to get tired of the same old thing or the lack of variety.'
First of all it's a phenomenal, phenomenal amount of variety in fruits and vegetables,
but on top of that, they tend to eat the same thing every day anyway. So, it's sort of a,
it's like the protein question. We're all eating the same amount of protein, we're always
asking eachother, 'where do you get your protein?' when protein isn't even an issue. People are
asking about variety. I'm eating more variety than they do, and they're asking me where
do I get my variety. So, it's one of those cosmic jokes.
John: So, I mean, I would definitely encourage eating variety. I mean, you know, variety's
the spice of life is what they like to say, and I would get really bored eating 30 bananas
a day, 30 bananas tomorrow. I mean, I've had all different kinds of foods, and tomorrow
I'll have something totally different based on what's ripe, what's available and, you
know, in many cases what's the lowest cost. Doug: yesterday I had tangerines for breakfast.
The day before that, I had grapes for breakfast. Today I had dragon fruit for breakfast, and
they even cut it up in slices for me. I mean, it was too easy. I don't know what tomorrow
will even be. The day before that, I just happened to remember, it was epic, you know,
it was figs for breakfast, and, you know, you just. I'm not eating the same thing every
day. Nothing even close to it, and when the bananas are good, I'm eating bananas, but
I don't live on bananas. I really don't live on bananas. I'd probably say, if I had to
guess, maybe 120 times a year, I might eat bananas. Maybe 1 out of 3, one day out of
3, I might eat bananas, but most of time I'm not eating them. They're fantastic, but they're
not special except they provide a predictable carbohydrate hit, which a lot of fruits don't,
but they're not better or worse than any other food, it's just another food.
John: Alright, Doug. Well, thanks for that answer. Hopefully you guys realized that,
you know, the 80-10-10 diet is more than just bananas. I mean, it's about eating a wide
variety of food and I know some of you guys may be getting your education on YouTube and
I always say, if you want to know more about what 80-10-10 really is, you seriously, you
guys got to buy the book. I mean, Doug wrote the book. I'm really happy and glad to be
interviewing him right now for you to give you guys a glimpse of what it inside this
book. I mean, you guys really need to buy his book and read it and learn what it really
is and when you read it and apply it, you know, you'll defiantly see results like many
people do. So, Doug, tell me how somebody can purchase your book.
Doug: The best way is just go to foodNsport.com. That's my website and store. It's the word
food, the letter N, the word sport. It's 10 letters. FoodNsport. If you go to foodNsport.com
you can always order the book and get all our special deals that come along with it.
Go to amazon and get whatever they offer. You can even go to your public library ask
them to get you a free copy or read. You can take it out of the library and every library
in the United States has 80-10-10 on the list of books that they can order for you and get
a copy so that you can read it for free, but read the book for sure.
John: Alright, Doug. Great, thank you for that. Once again, my name is John Kohler with
okraw.com. We'll see you next time, and remember; keep eating your fresh fruits and vegetables.
They're the best. Alright, this is John Kohler with okraw.com. Today I have another exciting
episode for you and this episode was filmed at the Woodstock Food Festival 2013 where
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