Fat Head: This movie will shed bright light on decades of brainwashing information that we have been fed about health and nutrition. Tom Naughton dispells these myths by basically doing a 1 month experiment of eating high fat/protein and low carbohydrate/sugar diet. Naughton shows how commerce and economics greatly influences the information our government and bodies of science have served to us. This show will open your eyes and your health and I'm forever grateful for watching it. You can find this documentary on Amazon or at a torrent location near you.

My Story

I have a PH.D in biochemistry and a bachelor's in nutrition. No I don't. I am a multiple college dropout with no credentials but I have the internet and I have used my body as an experiment so I hope you give me some credibility. I have nothing to sell and no one to please. Everything I tell you is from experience and sensible thinking. As sensible as my crazy brain.

My whole entire life I ate whatever I wanted and my mind and body paid for it, although during that time I thought it was my genetic makeup that was the issue and not so much the food. I grew up eating the western style of diet which mostly consists of lots of carbohydrates, sugar and processed food. Fast food was a staple in my life. I knew it was bad for me but I found ways to make myself feel better about it by like rotating fast food restaurants so I wasn't eating Mcdonald's everyday. Fruit and vegetables were only incorporated when there was lettuce in my hamburger or fruit in my dessert. It was pitaful and looking back I can't believe the kind of abuse the human body can endure. This was as far from natural as possible. In all essence everything I was eating was drugs. I was content with knowing there was a high chance that I would get some disease but I didn't care cause I was ignorant and uneducated.

The year 2010 came around and I was talking to an old high school friend and she was telling me how she started this new diet called the paleolithic diet or paleo for short. "What the heck is that?", I ask. No grains, no sugar and from what I gathered, no way. No grain? No rice, bread, noodles, wraps and the list goes on about the length of the longest tortilla. Well, whole grain must be ok I thought. Nope. It's all bad apparently. It wasn't just about stopping grains, the paleolithic diet was about incorporating foods only believed to have existed in the caveman era but the no grains part seemed like the most difficult part. This was really tough to digest. I didn't want to believe it and I didn't at first. I thought about everything I ate and loved and it all included some sort of grain. But after reading about grains and realizing they were not digestable by humans without being processed I came to the conclusion that they were not part of the natural human diet. Out of curiosity I gave it half a whirl.

To give you an idea of my physical appearance throughout my life, I was always the shortest skinniest kid in school. After high school I was a menacing 5'6" and 115 lbs. I was almost an ideal female supermodel body type. 10 years after high school I managed to get to 140 lbs from years of having more money to buy unhealthy food anytime I wanted to and some weight lifting. My body fat was around 15%. I realize at 5'6", 140 lbs still sounds pretty dainty but I'm naturally a very light person. I'm one of those guys who's not as heavy probably cause of bone density and lack of natural muscle and fat. At a 140 lbs though, I had a protruding gut and my face was much fuller than in high school but the rest of my body didn't really get much fatter. You're probably wondering why a 140 lb man would even consider losing any weight. Well, fat around the waist is usually a good sign you're not eating very healthy and it doesn't look very flattering or maybe I'm just like a girl.

When I said I gave it half a whirl I decided to cut out grains from my dinner cause the thought of cutting it out completely was still crazy. So for dinner I just ate meat and mixed it with romaine lettuce usually. During this time i started eating more fruit just for health purposes. In about a month I lost 5 pounds and was pretty amazed cause I tried losing weight before by eating whole wheat grains and less fatty cuts of meat. It didn't do a thing for me and I didn't lose a pound. During this time of my half ass caveman diet I wasn't even really trying to lose weight or anything. I was just kind of curious about trying something new.

After a couple months of halfassing it I went back to my old ways of eating whatever and then decided for fun to go all out. I can't say it was much fun. First week into this caveman diet I got sick. I think it was from going from lots of calories to not very many. I only ate meat, vegetables, fruit and nuts. I was always hungry and in 1 month I lost 10 pounds. My protruding stomach was gone and my face had more definition. I was almost like my high school self but I had a bit more muscle from previous weight lifting. Don't get me wrong I still looked like a bitch. So much so that I decided I had to hit the gym again. One mistake I made was not filling my plate with enough vegetables. It was more than foreign to me to eat more than a handful of vegetables in one sitting. I realize now I should have packed on 3 or 4 handfuls of vegetables each meal.

I was 100% strict for the first month and for the next couple months I cheated more and more but I was still eating "paleo" most of the time. Two other good side effects I noticed after a couple months was that I no longer got stomach aches which almost always lead to the runs. Pretty much for my whole adult life I got a stomach ache once every 2-3 weeks. Also, I was getting less acne and my overall complexion was better. I had acne ever since the middle of high school and it didn't end for me after high school. Nothing had ever lessened my acne besides prescribed medication and that was always temporary. Fast forward to the present and it's been about 10 months since I started this new diet and lifestyle and it doesn't look like I'm going back to my old ways of excess carbohydrates, sugar, bad oils and ingredients a mile long that had no meaning to me. Monosodiumglutamate?

I'm not eating a 100% paleolithic diet no more since I found it too strict (no fun and inconvenient) and no one can really prove what people were eating in the hunter gather days. Although, you can probably say they were eating only foods that were available in nature which required no processing whatsoever. So I have tweaked my diet into some sort of sustainable moderate to low carbohydrate diet inspired by paleolithic, primal, atkins and the devil. It's like mixed martial natural eating. Pretty corney eh but there's no corn allowed. I will show how I usually eat on the "what I do" part of the site.