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The Roundup

By on May 15, 2013 in The Roundup | 6 comments

Here is The Roundup, Edition 5, bringing you the best from around the web from the past two weeks! Blast from the Past Last May (2012), I wrote an entire series on salt, including the history of salt in the human diet, the dangers of salt restriction, and my recommendations for a healthy salt intake. There’s no evidence that adding salt to taste to a whole foods, Paleo diet is unhealthy, and salt restriction to the level recommended ...
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How Sitting Too Much Is Making Us Sick and Fat – And What to Do About It

By on April 8, 2013 in Diabesity, Heart Disease, Movement | 10 comments

This article was first featured at The Huffington Post. Click here to see the original article. There's no question that regular exercise is essential to health. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, we've had to exert ourselves -- often quite strenuously -- to get food, find shelter and simply survive. We naturally spent a lot of time outdoors in the sun, walking, hunting, gathering, and performing various other physically-oriented tasks. We had no concept of ...
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Red Meat: It Does a Body Good!

By on March 1, 2013 in Cancer, Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths, Paleo Diet | 118 comments

Over the past two decades, red meat has been increasingly blamed for everything from heart disease to cancer. Newspapers and magazines love to plaster alarmist headlines about red meat across their front pages, but as you might suspect if you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, these claims are ill founded and misleading. In fact, an impartial review of the evidence indicates that red meat is one of the healthiest foods you can ...
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How artificial light is wrecking your sleep, and what to do about it

By on February 22, 2013 in Cancer, Depression, Health Conditions, Heart Disease, Stress | 126 comments

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb The evidence for the health benefits of adequate, restful sleep is overwhelming. Decades of research has shown that sleeping between 7 and 9 hours per night can relieve stress, reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, improve memory and cognitive function, and may even help with weight loss. (1) As many of us know by now, getting adequate, high-quality ...
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Do fat people live longer?

By on February 1, 2013 in Diabesity, Health Conditions, Myths & Truths | 37 comments

We’ve all heard the recent news story splashed all over the TV and internet: overweight people actually have a lower risk of dying than those of normal weight.  (1) What a shock to the millions of Americans on a weight-loss diet, not to mention the hundreds of health professionals, research scientists, and government policy makers who are working around the clock to combat the obesity epidemic in this country! Could it be that we’re all wasting ...
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Headaches, Hives, and Heartburn: Could Histamine Be the Cause?

By on January 25, 2013 in Digestive problems, Health & Healing, Health Conditions, Skin | 250 comments

Red wine. Aged cheese. Citrus fruits. Sauerkraut. Bacon. These foods are frequently consumed by those on a healthy whole foods diet, and are often found in a variety of Paleo-friendly recipes and meal plans. Even conventional doctors frequently recommend including many of these seemingly unrelated foods daily as part of a healthy diet. After all, even a raw vegan probably wouldn’t argue against eating foods like oranges, spinach, or cinnamon. It may surprise you to learn that these ...
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