This week we're happy to have Stephan Guyenet from Whole Health Source back to discuss the body fat set point and food reward theories of obesity and weight regulation.Questions covered include:How does the food reward system work? Why did it evolve?Why do certain flavors we don't initially like become appealing over time?How does industrially processed food affect the food reward system?What's the most effective diet used to make rats obese in a research setting? ...
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In the first article of this series we talked about the negative impact of 4 common food toxins: wheat, industrial seed oil, fructose and processed soy. In the second article we discussed which fats, carbohydrates and proteins are the best source of fuel for your body. In this article we're going to importance of eating real food."Real food" is:
Whole, unprocessed and unrefined
pasture-raised (a.k.a. grass-fed) and wild
local, seasonal and organicLet's look at each of these ...
Imagine a world where:
diabetes, heart diseases, autoimmunity and other modern diseases are rare or don't exist at all
we are naturally lean and fit
we are fertile throughout our childbearing years
we sleep peacefully and deeply
we age gracefully without degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and osteoporosisWhile this might sound like pure fantasy today, anthropological evidence suggests that this is exactly how human beings lived for the vast majority of our evolutionary history.Today, most people accept diseases like obesity, diabetes, infertility ...
I was happy to see a new blog post by Kurt Harris over at PaleoNu yesterday. He's one of my favorite bloggers, and he hasn't written much over the last several months. Turns out he's been boning up on evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology to determine what is currently knowable - and unknowable - about how our paleolithic ancestors lived and ate.He has also been cultivating a relationship with a PaleoNu reader who ...
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