"Food is Nature’s perfect medicine." ~ Chef Keidi
By Junious Ricardo Stanton
Welcome to the new Solari Series—Metanoia—in which we talk about change: changing one’s mind, going beyond limited thinking and behavior, and achieving personal transformation in a holistic way. The goal is to encourage personal growth, transformation through mental transmutation, and empowerment by featuring interesting personalities with intriguing and inspiring ideas.
My first guest is Keidi Obi Awadu, a Renaissance man, artist, deep and thorough researcher, author, Internet pioneer, biofuturist, chef, and holistic health and nutrition expert.
Food has always been an important part of life for Keidi Awadu. As a chef, he believes that food is Nature’s perfect medicine, and a key part of any transformation. Through his Living Superfood Full-Spectrum Hyper-Nutrition healing system, he has been offering time-honored, practical, and natural solutions to help people regain their health and vitality as part of a holistic transformation.
In our conversation, we talk about the seven principles of health: Breath, Hydration, Nutrition, Sleep, Detox, Exercise, and Mind-Body-Spirit Matrix. We also discuss inflammation, which is the cause of so many acute and chronic diseases, and how to reduce it. And last but not least, we talk about how to change bad habits.
Join me on Thursday for an inspiring discussion with Chef Keidi Obi Awadu.
For Let’s Go to the Movies, I recommend Chef Keidi’s documentary, Chewicide. When food is so absolutely, deliciously decadent that it literally is "to DIE for!"—that’s Chewicide! If you’d like to watch the movie, you can purchase the DVD here.
This is the last week of the month, so there is no Money & Markets. E-mail your questions for Ask Catherine or post at the Money & Markets commentary here.
Related Links:
Chef Keidi Living Superfood website with recipes, food as medicine, videos, and more.
Keidi Obi Awadu on the web
Book: Panic: What the Coronavirus Pandemic Tells Us About the State of the World
Need help getting a refund from Chef Awadu. I watched the interview and thought I’d both give his books a try and help him out too. I ordered one from Amazon on kindle (superfood research) and one from his livingsuperfoods site. After reading half of the one on Kindle and learning that he worships the Divine Mother Goddess and believes we are the offspring of the Sun and Moon, I decided to cancel my paypal order of the book on his site. However, after emailing him twice about my desire to cancel, I’ve not received a reply from him nor the book. Please have your interviewer contact him to help me out. Thanks
1. “Cells require glucose from food to operate.”
Human requirement of glucose ingestion is 0. The entire small amount of glucose we need our body produces using the gluconeogenesis process.
2. “Proper nutrition… like fiber”
Fiber is not proper nutrition to homo sapiens. It’s undigestible. Species that require fiber like chimpanzees have long large intestines which hold fibrous leaves and bacteria in them ferment the fiber. As a result of the process of fermentation fatty acids are produced and that is the main source of energy for that animal. For us a source of fatty acids is things like bacon and bone marrow because we don’t have an ability to ferment leaves.
3. “Proper nutrition… like complex carbohydrates”
There is 0 scientific evidence of a requirement of any complex carbs in a diet of homo sapiens. Our ancestors a million years ago haven’t been cultivating rice and wheat but have hunted for large animals like mammoths, elephants, bison, bulls. That is shown in studies on human bones. Also every paleolithic cave painting that shows any human relation to food shows large ruminating animals and people hunting them, not humans eating quinoa, rice and oats. Centering a diet around complex carbs is a modern invention and is not proper nutrition to our species according to millions of years of evolution.
4. “Red meat increases inflammation and the risk of cancer by 500%”.
There is 0 scientific evidence that red meat increases inflammation. To the contrary, we have experimental, clinical studies where intervention in the form of fatty ruminant meant causes elimination of inlfammation and associated diseases (like in my case – Crohn’s or Hashimoto). Also, there is 0 scientific evidence of ANY risk at all associated with ingestion of red meat.
I stopped watching after 28 minutes, this is too much for me. This guy is totally unqualified when it comes to nutrition. Please conduct a debate with an actual scientist in the field of nutrition like Bart Kay or Zsofia Clemens and we’ll see if Chef Keidi Obi Awadu can defend his pseudoscientific arguments.
Thank you Michal I agree with your arguments above. I did listen to this entire recording, I am an ex-vegan. I am particularly concerned about the “red meat increase risk of cancer by 500%”, Also the references to dairy being a problem, raw and organic grass fed dairy is what I consume and support. It comes across very misleading and confusing.
Right on Michal – It’s an informational minefield out there. (I’m pretty much a carnivore and almost exclusively eating pastured animals.) If veganism works for some people long term, good for them however as Weston A Price pointed out in his book “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,” he couldn’t identify a truly robust people who didn’t eat some animal products in their diet even though he actively searched.