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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Celebrity Health / Kobe Bryant Defies Father Time Using Traditional Diet (While Ashton Kutcher Ends Up in the Hospital Ignoring It)

Kobe Bryant Defies Father Time Using Traditional Diet (While Ashton Kutcher Ends Up in the Hospital Ignoring It)

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

Two very different celebrity diets are in the news this week.

On the one hand is the story of Ashton Kutcher who ended up in the hospital with pancreas issues and severe pain following a fruitarian diet which was part of his efforts to “get into character” for his role as Steve Jobs in the soon to be released movie Jobs.  Steve Jobs, the visionary founder of Apple and a known fruitarian, died in October 2011 from complications of pancreatic cancer.

On the other hand is the amazing story of LA Lakers guard Kobe Bryant who is turning back the clock following a Traditional Diet all the while looking, feeling and playing better than ever at an age that most would consider to be way past his prime.

Just last month, Kobe became the first player in NBA history to score 30 or more points in six consecutive contests, this after turning 34 years of age which is rather ancient in NBA years.

Of his age defying performance, Kobe said:

“My wind feels even better. I feel like I can run all day long. A lot of that has to do with diet and being committed to it, and watching what I eat.”

Contrast this statement with what Ashton Kutcher said at the Sundance Film Festival last week about his pancreatic attack which caused him to be rushed to the hospital:

 “The fruitarian diet can lead to, like, severe issues.  I went to the hospital, like, two days before we started shooting the movie.  I was, like, doubled over in pain.  My pancreas levels were completely out of whack.  It was really terrifying, considering everything.”

The fruitarian diet is a subset of veganism.  It includes fruits, nuts and seeds, without animal products, vegetables and grains.   While this diet might make another species of primate extremely happy (one with lots of fur), it is in no way a Traditional Diet for a human and is a pertinent example of dietary modernism gone off the deep end.

According to Dr. Kaayla Daniel, evidence suggests that excess fructose consumption as would happen with anyone following fruitarianism puts stress on the pancreas and could lead to islet cell carcinoma, the type of pancreatic cancer suffered by Jobs.

While Ashton Kutcher was discovering the dangers of an extreme modern diet, Kobe Bryant is enjoying the fruits of a Traditional one.

LA Lakers trainer Gary Vitti says that the staples of Kobe’s diet include pasture based foods like grassfed beef and eggs from free-range chickens.  Kobe makes every effort to avoid anything with corn syrup and his carbohydrate consumption has been scaled down to a very moderate level.

Focusing on getting traditional fats into his diet and the wrong fats out is of prime importance to Kobe.   Vitti described the dangers of following a lowfat diet and why Kobe is not following the USDA Food Pyramid – in fact, he’s following the inverse:

“When they strip the fat, they strip all the nutrients with it. We don’t necessarily want to stay away from fats, but it has to be the right kind of fat.

The current science reverses the pyramid.  The base of the pyramid is on the top. We’re not telling them to just eat fat – it has to be the right kind of fat. Pasture-grazed beef and products from that; you can eat butter, but it has to be pasture-fed. Not pasteurized, pasture-fed. There’s a big difference. Milk from a pasture-fed cow, cheese from a pasture-fed cow.”

No margarine or vegetable oil tub spreads for this NBA star.  Kobe Bryant who is playing better than he did in his twenties and shattering NBA records in his mid-thirties eats butter!

But not just any butter, unpasteurized (raw) butter from pastured cows just like the healthy, robust traditional Swiss culture that revered it’s deep yellow/orange butter from cows grazing on the first spring grass.

Fruitarianism v. Traditional Diet:  No Contest

The extreme physical results of two healthy young men about the same age consuming two very different diets is astonishing:  elite athletic performance versus a doubled over in pain trip to the hospital ER.

A modern diet like fruitarianism in no way competes with the physical vitality imparted by Traditional Diet.

Pass the raw pastured butter please!

 

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

Sources:  Kobe Bryant’s Diet Helps Maintain an Elite Level of Play

Ashton Kutcher Experiences Pancreatic Pain Playing the Role of Steve Jobs

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Rick

    Mar 24, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    Did you read Kobe’s blog post where he described his diet? Quote: “It was time to adjust, so the struggle began. Lots of veggies, fruits, fish and lean meats.” Before he was eating a lot of junk food and pizza, so pretty much any diet would have been better. Obviously he’s not anti-veggies or fruits, which have been linked with a reduced risk of cancer. Instead of starting a war between paleo and vegans, we should all just agree that avoiding processed foods results in better health.

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  3. D.

    Mar 4, 2013 at 10:30 am

    I don’t think RLp understands what is meant by the word “traditional”. Traditional means ancestral, RLp, not what everyone else has been doing for the past twenty years, wrong as it is. Did you actually read the article?

    Please site a source for your information concerning Ashton Kutcher. By all accounts, he was taken to an ER.

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  4. RLp

    Mar 4, 2013 at 10:13 am

    Kobes diet is far from traditional not even close actually,he is on a paleo type diet. His trainer stated he eats grass-fed beef and pasture fed butter and cheese. And also a lot of fruits and vegetables. And Ashton Kutcher was not rushed to the ER room that is false. Both diets are far superior to the SAD typical american diet. raw vegan or paleo is good no need to try to down either one.

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  6. art

    Feb 10, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    I usually love your blog but on this occasion I am a little perturbed by the blanket demonisationof fruits as a major player in one’s diet.

    Broadly speaking, extremes of anything are ofcourse ill advised. But to state that a diet high in mineral and vitmain rich fruit is of negative health consequences is not always the truth.

    We are each a mutation and evolved in different ways to each other, many people do well with high fruit intake, and many are highly effective athletes. I also eoupd like to highlight the point that high fructose corn syrup, fruit juices and other sweeteners cannot by lumped in with whple fruit intake, as the fibre content of whole fruit limits the absorption of fructose into the bloodstream, petering off any sugar spike and crash that will pccur with juicong etc.

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    • art

      Feb 10, 2013 at 7:23 pm

      Excuse typos. Phone ranting lol

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