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Here's your daily dose of Andrew's Apples, a small white bag of four fresh *fruits* to nourish your soul and make you feel great. In under 2 minutes. Let's go picking.
🐇 Stretch goals. It was only after a full year of intermediate-to-advanced yoga training in New York that I noticed how inflexible people are. Flexibility is the first physical quality to go with aging. Charles Poliquin says, if you don't use it, you lose it. Men are especially bad. Envisioning PE class arm circles right now. As I've said in previous Issues, one should not stretch every day - there is a science to this if you want to be like Gumby. This and this (dude made a bang on Joe Rogan recently) are good places to start. Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven says, "We all have it coming, Kid." Death? Yeah duh, def destined for dirt, but inflexibility? I think not.
🍷 Water into whine. I love wine. Even the boxed garbage we drank in college. What I don't love is whine: the hangover, the thumb twiddling, the pounding headache I'm guaranteed the following morning. This is mostly due to excessive sugar, high ABV %, and palmfuls of toxic additives found in too many store-bought wines. To solve this first-world problem I give you Dry Farm Wines (DTC affordable organic wines) and Bellissima (my big bro deletes this stuff(!), and it can be found at most wine stores). Prost!
🌱 Regenerative agricouture. Much like couture in fashion means made-to-measure clothing, regenerative agriculture means made-for-nature farming practices. Instead of tilling (aggressively turning the soil to prepare for seeding) and monocropping (miles of never-ending military-style rows of crops), regenerative says "Let's let Mother Nature do her thing. Bless her!" And the results are nutritious and thus delicious. People forget that the taste of food is a reflection of its original soil health and nutrient density. That's why the apples at a Holiday Inn taste more like the dead carcass of an apple. While only comprising less than 1% of all farming in the US right now, places like Be Here Farm are leading the way. Visitors have said that the farm's berries are so uniquely delicious that they thought they were trying berries for the first time; some even claimed the food got them high. I repeat: High from food.
🧁 Eating like kids again. The pandemic did a number on the American economy and on eating habits. Since early 2020, select food giants in the $1 trillion food industry have crushed: Mondelez, Nestle, Unilever, and General Mills. Aka Oreos, Hot Pockets, Ben & Jerry's, Cheerios... you get the point. And the conclusion is that given the perma-stress of living in a post-pandemic America, adults are eating like children. Grandma's comfort foods have seen a resurgence (ever notice that most grandmas, bless their hearts, are huge?). Get this: "At least 13 food companies went public in 2021, and almost all of them have tanked." Yikes. People are eating their feelings (Oreos), instead of buying a feeling (Beyond Meat saves the world, etc.). To this I would say if you want to eat like a kid, then at least run around like one too. Those little goblins burn every calorie they chew.
How do you like them Apples? Any bad ones? Suggestions? If you ever need anything, hit reply.
Your friend,
Andrew 🍎
Gumby: how did this not frighten children?
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