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For those of you following along, as I promised in the last episode, this one is about one of the biggest breakups in rock and roll history with a health tie-in regarding nutrition. In case you haven't guessed it yet, it's from Fleetwood Mac's rumors album, and it discusses Lindsay Buckingham's take on his breakup with bandate Stevie Knicks. But before we get into the song and the soap opera of the making of the rumors album, let's talk a little bit about the history of Fleetwood Mac. So

Breakup Hook Meets Nutrition

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Fleetwood Mac was founded by Peter Green, and that started back in 1967. Mick Fleetwood and John McVeigh were also original members. Those two remained throughout the rest of Fleetwood Mac, including the Rumors album. While many bands have had significant line lineup changes

Fleetwood Mac Roots And Reinvention

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over time, really Fleetwood Mac is probably one of the bands that had the most change to their musical direction. When it started, it was more of a blues band. One of the best songs at that time was called Oh Well. And here's a clip of that. And yeah, Black Magic Woman was actually written by Green and originally done by Fleetwood Mac. And then a few years later, it was done by Santana. Here's a clip of the Fleetwood Mac version. So you can definitely hear the difference between the Fleetwood Mac version of rumors, the latest version of the band, and this early Peter Green version of the band. So it wasn't that long after they formed, and back in 1970, Peter Green actually left the band. And he left because of various issues, including drug use, mental health. Very similar to when Sid Barrett left Pink Floyd, but Green eventually did return to music about 10 years later, formed some other bands, did some things by himself, but never went back with Fleetwood Mac. So back to Fleetwood Mac. There were numerous other changes, but the next real big one was the addition of Christine McVeigh, who joined in 1970, a couple years after she had actually married John McVee, a member of the band. So it was 1975 when the next big change really happened. Fleetwood was looking for a new guitarist and he heard an album called Buckingham Knicks. And that happened to be Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nick's first solo project that they did, and the only album they did. So Buckingham and Knicks were actually in high school together, and they became a band and a couple in the early 1970s. And when Fleetwood heard Buckingham's guitar, he asked him to be on the band. And Buckingham said he would join, but only if Stevie Nicks joined too. And we certainly know how that turned out. So in 1975, they released a self-titled Fleetwood Mac, which was a huge success, but nowhere near the success that rumors had a couple years after that. And the other part about rumors was there was quite a musical soap opera associated with it, including today's song. At the time they were working on rumors, each bandmate was going through broken relationships. Buckingham and Nick's were splitting up, the McV's were divorcing, McFleetwood's marriage was falling apart. Just about every song on that album described those emotions that everyone was feeling, and many of those were written by different people. They all wrote a different song that went through their issues, and we'll probably talk about some of those songs later on. But for right now, let's get to this episode song. So Go Your Own Way. The story to that is it was written by Lindsay Buckingham, and he was really distraught over Stevie Nick's breaking up with him. And let me play you the first couple lines.

Rumours Breakups Spark The Songs

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How can I when you won't take it from me? That certainly showed a lot of emotion on his part that he would go back if she would let him, but she wouldn't. And then the part that actually kind of changes things is when he talks about packing up, shacking up, that's all you want to do. She tried to get him to change it because it implied that she had been sleeping around and cheating on him, which she vehemently denied. So her reaction to that song was her song Dreams. And it's interesting, some of the lines

Writing Go Your Own Way

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in there go, Now here you go again. You say you want your freedom. Well, who am I to keep you down? And also listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness. So that was really her answer to him, and essentially trying to say no, you were the one that wanted to sleep around and have your freedom. This is how it really went down, according to her. And with that song, Stevie ultimately got her revenge because Dreams went to number one while Go Your Own Own Way only went to number 10. So how are we going to apply this to nutrition and the health advice we want to talk about in this episode? So, first off, here's another quote Not from a song, but this is actually from philosopher Frederick Nietzsche, and he says this or said this back in

Dreams Answers Go Your Own Way

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the 1800s. This is my way. What is your way? As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. That sounds kind of similar to go your own way. So how does this song or the nutrition advice that we're I'm going to give you apply to those of us that are near retirement, already retired, or really anyone? Well, first the problem is that there are about 75% of us that are overweight, 40% obese. This is a huge health problem that impacts life and health span. The other thing is we really shouldn't think of a diet as I'm on a diet, but instead diet as the foods you eat that that are sustainable. Why? Because about 80 to

No One Right Diet

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95% of people who lose a significant amount of weight on a diet, guess what? Within two to five years, they gain that back. And mostly, in most cases, they gain back more. So it's very interesting too that nutrition is probably just as hotly debated as politics and religion. Now that's saying something in these times. So to get a better insight into nutrition, let's start off going back in time and see how different hunter-gatherer cultures utilized nutrition, what they had available, and how some of the hunter-gatherers are still around today, how they still do it. So, first off, there were never any pure carnivores eating only animal, or pure vegetarians eating only fruits and vegetables. We primarily evolved as omnivores. Their diets weren't based on any type of ideology, but instead based on their ecology and what was available for food. If food was around, you had to eat that. I mean, it was life or death. So it wasn't just the idea that, oh, I prefer this or I prefer that. In some cases, they had to eat what was available, and it may have changed to in winter and summer. An example, the Inuits or Eskimos, 90 to 95% of their food was animals. You know, what they could fish, what they could hunt. There weren't a lot of things growing in that climate. But in the summertime they were. They could have berries and leaves and different things. On the other extent, or extreme, the Maya, the Terra Humara from northern Mexico, were mostly vegetable eaters. And interestingly enough, the Terra Humara tribe, they were featured in the Born to Run book by Christopher McDougall. So we'll talk about them a little bit more in another episode. But they were primarily vegetable because that was what was available to them. There were times that they could hunt and fish and they would eat that. But again, it was availability. So the Hadsa that are in Africa and Tanzania are one of the last remaining hunter and gatherer societies. And and they're kind of half and half, and it's really based on the season. In certain parts of the year, they can hunt, and in other parts, when that may be tough, they'll

Hunter-Gatherers To A To Z Lessons

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have the vegetables, the fruits, whatever they can find, whatever they can gather and find. So it really came down to what's available for them. So the interesting thing is all of these cultures were very healthy before European contact. But then they were greatly impacted after that, every single one of them. And guess what the major issue from the contact with Europeans was? The influence of sugar and flour. So in future episodes, we'll talk a little bit more about the evolution of diet from hunter and gatherers to agricultural around 10,000 years ago, and then to more recently the Industrial Revolution. So there'll be a lot more we can discuss in other episodes coming up on that. Another thing to think about is there was a recent study. So let's talk about modern studies, modern things. And this study was called the A to Z diet because they went from essentially looking at many different diets from Atkins to the zone and all the different aspects of different diets. And what that found is there's really no single correct diet. All of those diets worked to an extent because people were first off were able to follow them. And secondly, they did not have the sugar, the flour, and really the processed foods. Most people in in those diets and in that study were eating the mostly whole, minimally processed foods. So that's really the important thing. And that's the thing, hunter and gatherers didn't have any processing of food. It was you had it right there at that moment. So a lot of this echoes what we talked about in the no sugar tonight episode is really not only don't have your sugar tonight, but don't have it at all. Try to really minimize that. And I had a point where I went, no sugar, no flour, and it was just a great benefit to me and lost a lot of weight, which I probably need to go back and do a little bit more of that. And that's the thing. It is hard to be sustainable and do some of these things, but we have just so many treats out there available that we try to need to really stay away from it. So in the end, really choose whatever diet you feel comfortable with and what works for you. Just limit the sugar, flour, all those refined and ultra-processed foods, and you should do well. But again, just like exercise, find something you like, find something and make sure it's sustainable and you're not eating that that junk food. All right, so let's talk about our next episode. Since this podcast is titled Rockin' Into Retirement, in our next episode, let's talk about a song that ties into retirement and talk specifically about retirement. So we'll see you then. Thanks for listening.