| Founder’s Story - Rocky Mountain Hemp Hearts Owner and Operator |
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This is the story of the Owner and Operator of Rocky Mountain Grain Products, maker of the finest Hemp Hearts in North America and supplier for BuyHempHearts.com. More than that he is an avid advocate of hemp since it dramatically changed his life for the better. Roger: In my case, I’m 80 pounds down from when I started eating hemp, and I didn’t think I was fat. I had several chins and a big round face and I was 80 lbs. heavier than I am now, but all my friends were heavier than I was and everybody. I was building machines and installing them in food processing plants. I was 6 feet tall and 240 pounds, but people my age were all at least 240 pounds. That’s why you really don’t think of your self as fat. If you take my case, when I was 14, I was feeding a couple hundred head of heifers every morning out of a pail and that’s like 2 or 3 hundred pails of chop. You’re packing that around, and then milking the cows and then racing for school and then we had lots of physical activity in school, so you could eat huge quantities of food and still be pretty light. However, if you ate lots of sweets and carbohydrates you still put on tiny amounts of weight and you wouldn’t really notice it as being fat until 50 years had passed, but really for that whole 50 years you were putting on a few pounds a year. Then, as you put those pounds on you change your lifestyle because you’re getting heavier, and instead of running as much, say you only put 10 pounds on, well then you’re packing 10 pounds around so you’re probably going to be a little less active and maybe eat a little bit more because you have more weight to carry around. Rebecka: So you need more energy to carry that weight around, so you eat more? Roger: Yes. It’s a very gradual progressive thing with most people. In my case, by the time I started eating hemp, I was eating bacon, and eggs, and hash browns and toast, pancakes and syrup and 6 cups of coffee for breakfast. In an hour and a half I was hungry. I would sneak away to a donut shop and I would be eating bran muffins and butter and 6 cups of coffee. Then in and hour and a half I was weak and hungry, and I was looking for a Chinese food buffet so I could eat all I wanted and 6 cups of coffee. An hour and a half and I’d be hungry again and I’d sneak off again for apple fritters and butter and 6 cups of coffee. And then in a couple of hours I’d had a big evening meal and I’d eat again before I went to bed. Now why am I eating all that food? I’m eating all that food because I’m packing around 100 pounds I didn’t need and my work is still fairly high energy requiring work. I’m installing machinery in the tops of grain evaluators and food processing plants. I’d run up ladders all day long and even if I’m not doing that myself I have 3 or 4 crews and going for supplies and running all around. And I’m packing my extra 100 pounds up all these stairs, and ladders, and running all around. When I was in school, there was no one in my classes who was fat. You could count everybody’s bones because we started out milking the cows in the morning and feeding the 100 cows with pails and we ran everywhere and walked lots of distances, but now a days we’ve got school kids that are having heart attacks and huge numbers that are already suffering from obesity. People don’t realize that food is fuel. They think that if you’re a certain weight… They think you should be eating according to how heavy you are. That’s completely wrong. You should be eating according to how much work you’re trying to do. It’s fairly obvious that if you take your body to the top of mount Everest on your feet you need enough fuel to do that job, but if you’re going to take your body and sit in a chair all day, you only need enough fuel to do that job. And at different times in my life I needed a huge amount of fuel. One time I worked in the Arctic. I worked on Geophysical exploration and we walked 2000 miles across the Arctic. It was always between 40 and 65 below zero. So in those days I would eat 20 eggs for breakfast, several pounds of bacon, and huge amounts of food, and make 2 loaves of bread into sandwiches and carry that under my army parka all day. We were eating all the time in order to have enough energy to handle the cold and do the physical labor. Now, so that’s really what’s happening with people who are gradually getting heavier. As they get heavier they need to eat more or they think they need to eat more because they need more energy to do the same job. |
