Paleolithic-style diets have gotten a lot of press of late. The articles mostly take this form:
1) Hipster discusses their caveman diet and explains that all their problems with digestion, allergies, obesity, blood sugar, athletic performance or what-have-you are gone.
2) Reporter says “isn’t that nice” and proceeds to quote sources of conventional wisdom saying that somehow, [...]
I don’t think I can call the Dr. Gundry plan a success as I have gained three pounds in a little over a week.
I’m still trying to sort it out, but if I look at my food journals and the timing of large, sudden weight gains, a pattern emerges. I think that [...]
At the moment, one of my favorite bloggers is Melissa McEwen at Hunt/Gather/Love. She was recently featured in a New York Times article on Paleolithic Diets. She’s written a lot of great things in her quite new blog, but this one about Kale Chips … well, this is my new favorite way to [...]
I was interested in reading this particular book after seeing it mentioned in several of my usual nutrition haunts.
There’s useful information within, and there are a few recipes I’ll try.1 I could, in fact, do his Phase 1 diet with little difficulty. Beyond that? It’s not something I’m going to do, and where it winds [...]
It took me ages to find a copy of Ray Audette’s Neanderthin at a price I was willing to pay ($12 + shipping, as it turned out). I read it, of course, and just for the heck of it, I ran the numbers on two days of his menu suggestions.
There’s a lot of good information [...]
Richard at Free The Animal blogged about a study that was both interesting and timely, at least to me.
I’ve been successfully controlling my weight in a within two pounds of my final diet day weigh-in for about a month, but I’m always interested in tips and tricks.
I’ve recently read about the Johnson Up Down [...]
When following a diet for health, weight loss, social conscience, whatever, there seems to be this idea that you shouldn’t have to “miss out” on conventional foods or those foods that got you fat and/or sick in the first place.
While watching the third installment of The 100 Mile Challenge , I was annoyed by how these folks who volunteered to only eat foods from within a 100 mile radius of their home were totally freaking out about not having wheat-based bread and pasta. [...]