Food & Nutrition

Choline and TMAO: Eggs Still Don’t Cause Heart Disease

By on May 6, 2013 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 40 comments

A recent study by published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has proposed a new link between eggs and coronary heart disease (CHD) that doesn’t involve cholesterol. A team of researchers, led by Dr. Stanley Hazen, showed that dietary choline—a nutrient found largely in eggs, beef liver and other animal foods—is metabolized by bacteria in our gut and then converted by the liver into TMAO. They demonstrated this with a “choline challenge”: feeding volunteers two ...
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Review of Gather: The Art of Paleo Entertaining

By on April 30, 2013 in Food & Nutrition, Paleo Diet | 2 comments

Gather, the Art of Paleo Entertaining by Bill Staley and Hayley Mason, is a brand new Paleo cookbook designed to inspire year-round celebrations with family and friends. No gathering of loved ones is complete without a table full of delicious food, yet it can be difficult to prepare multi-course meals that can be enjoyed by those who are following a Paleo diet. Bill and Hayley’s book is proof that it’s possible to eat and entertain like ...
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50 Shades of Gluten (Intolerance)

By on April 23, 2013 in Digestive problems, Food & Nutrition, Health & Healing, Myths & Truths, Paleo Diet | 66 comments

This article was first featured at The Huffington Post. Click here to see the original article. Celiac disease (CD) was initially described in the first century A.D. by a Greek physician named Aretaeus of Cappadocia. (1) But neither Aretaeus nor anyone else knew that CD is caused by an autoimmune reaction to gluten, a protein in wheat. That didn't become clear until 1950 -- several centuries later -- when Dr. Willem Dicke, a Dutch pediatrician, conclusively proved that gluten was the ...
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Does Red Meat Cause Inflammation?

By on April 5, 2013 in Cancer, Food & Nutrition, Myths & Truths, Paleo Diet | 69 comments

So far in my series on red meat, I’ve discussed why red meat is good for you and why grass fed is a better choice than grain fed. We now know that red meat is a healthy choice, due to its high nutritive value and superior fatty acid profile among other reasons. In the comments on these posts, however, I’ve noticed a few readers have mentioned other components in red meat that are concerning, due to ...
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Why Grass-Fed Trumps Grain-Fed

By on March 29, 2013 in Food & Nutrition, Paleo Diet | 124 comments

In my recent post on red meat, I showed you why red meat of any kind is a healthy choice, and doesn’t deserve the bad reputation that it’s given by the media and mainstream medical establishment. But although conventional beef won’t give you cancer and is an important source of highly bioavailable nutrients, we can’t ignore the fact that grass-fed meat is still superior to grain-fed. The classic idiom “you are what you eat” applies just as ...
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Four Ways to Improve Your Paleo Lifestyle

By on March 22, 2013 in Food & Nutrition, Health & Healing, Paleo Diet, Stress | 49 comments

Note: Tomorrow (Saturday, March 23rd) is the last day to save 75% on the recordings from the Healthy Life Summit, which includes my talk, Chronodisruption: The Dark Side of Artificial Light. The Summit includes presentations from 35 experts, authors and bloggers on topics ranging from Making Real Food Affordable to Metabolism and Stress to Treating Eczema From the Inside Out. The presentations begin on Sunday, March 24th and you can listen to them live for free. Click here to learn ...
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