The Magical Mighty Power of Lard

You can survive on your preps. Or you can thrive with lard.

No but seriously. If everything the common man knows is wrong, you can’t expect me to re-educate everybody in a single substack article. The reality is, there is nothing better for you in your diet than fat and the best way to slim down is cut out the sugar and eat more fat. Fat lowers cholesterol, improves your immune system and encourages your body to keep your insulin and glucose balanced. Our problem is the sugar, not the fat.

During a famine, the worst thing for you to survive on is sugar and carbohydrates. Which are the very things that constitute survival food plans … a long term storage menu of starch, sugar and easily digested carbs. One way to try to balance this is with stable sources of protein like powdered non-fat milk. Therein lies the problem. We are still not getting the fat that our bodies crave for very good reasons.

There should be some secret backdoor by which we can elude the inevitable poor health that comes from a diet like this over an extended period.

You’re in luck. I’ve been working on this post for over a year and I thought it was time I published. It’s the single most important thing that survivalists can be aware of when it comes to a food storage plan. It will literally change the entire game for you.

One secret addition to a nutritional schedule and you’re going to be looking forward to eating instead of just forcing yourself to chew to avoid starving to death. Only one ingredient and it will solve many different problems all at once : diet fatigue, lack of satiation and carb-fueled appetites that get worse the longer you are on it. Sugar creates anxiety and anxiety further fuels a hunger for more sugar. Soon you got sleeplessness, sugar cravings and anxiety in a critical triangle of death. Cancer and a million other malfunctions love this roster because your body knows it is not what you need. If you want to thrive, you have to convince your internal biology you’re on a different agenda altogether.

Best of all, it helps enormously to make children happy and teach their bodies they are not switching to famine metabolism. The effect on morale of adults who take care of children improves immeasurably when the children are still having fun. It has been shown repeatedly in research to help the adults relax and stop worrying. It lowers suicide rates and impulsivity substantially in your entire hardy band of survivors. Just the sound of children laughing because they are eating well and their bodies know they are not in scarcity environments. The effect on insulin is profound.

Health begins and ends with your physiological management of insulin. It is the crux of avoiding inflammation. Carbs keep you alive but only lard is going to give you vitality and a general feeling of well-being.