Lactose intolerance is one of the most common food intolerances, affecting up to 65% of the world’s adult population. (1) Many people choose to completely cut out dairy as a way to avoid the gastrointestinal symptoms that frequently come along with eating dairy foods. But is true lactose intolerance really the cause of their digestive distress, or are many people prematurely eliminating dairy because of a perceived inability to digest milk products? And is it possible ...
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Coconut milk is often a staple fat source for those following a Paleo diet. From a nutritional perspective, it's an excellent choice. It's high in saturated fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), which are both easily burned as fuel by the body. MCTs are particularly beneficial in that they don't require bile acids for digestion, and they're directly shunted to the liver via the portal vein.
Coconut milk and fruit can be a great snack for Paleo ...
In this week's show we discuss the similarities and differences between the Paleo, GAPS and Weston A. Price approaches to nutrition. Specifically, we explore:
The health of traditional cultures studied by Weston A. Price
Raw dairy, IGF-1 and cancer
Signs and symptoms of raw dairy intolerance
Raw dairy and healing the gut
Properly prepared grains - worth the trouble?
How to reintroduce and test your tolerance for dairy
A1 vs. A2 milk: significant difference or bogus theory?
Which is best: Paleo, GAPS or WAPF?
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One of the most contentious issues in the Paleo nutrition community is whether dairy products are health-promoting or disease-causing.
On one end of the spectrum you have Loren Cordain and his group, who claim that dairy is not fit for human consumption for two reasons: 1) because it's a neolithic food and not part of our evolutionary heritage, and 2) because of proposed physiological mechanisms by which dairy causes harm when consumed. On the ...
(Excerpted from the Weston A. Price foundation Journal: Caustic Commentary - Summer 2007)
Full-fat milk has pretty much disappeared from the public schools—not just in the US, but also in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. In most schools, children have a choice of watery reduced-fat milk or sugar-laden chocolate milk, based on the misconception that the butterfat in whole milk will cause heart disease later in life. So it's a bit embarrassing when a study comes ...
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