Over the last couple of years, as the popularity of the Paleo diet has expanded, a lot of controversy has emerged over exactly what a Paleo diet is.
Part of the problem is that there are now a number of authors and bloggers - from Mark Sisson to Kurt Harris to Robb Wolf to Paul Jaminet to myself - that advocate what might generally be called a Paleo diet, but with slight variations in each case. ...
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In a recent article I wrote on my other blog, 9 Steps to Perfect Health - #1: Nourish Your Body, I explained that saturated (SFA) and monounsaturated fats (MFA) are the preferred fuel source of the body. Another important benefit of LCSFA, and to a lesser degree MFA, is that they are stable at high temperatures and thus the safest fats to cook with.
With this in mind, here's a list of my favorite ...
In step #1, we talked about what not to eat. In this article, we'll talk about what to eat.
Most of the calories we get from food come from protein, carbohydrates and fat. These are referred to as macronutrients. We also get other important nutrients from food, such as vitamins and minerals. These don't constitute a significant source of calories, so they're called micronutrients.
For the last 50 years we've been told to follow a diet low in ...
I got an email from Pamela Schoenfeld, R.D. the other day. She wanted to make me aware of a paper she and her colleagues (Hite, et al)published on Friday in the journal Nutrition. It's a critique of the Report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Committee (DGAC) that recommended that we all go on eating the same low-fat, high-carb diet that has contributed to the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease (among others).
The ...
From the documentary Fat Head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4&feature=player_embedded&fmt=22
For more than five decades we've been brainwashed to believe that saturated fat causes heart disease. It's such a deeply ingrained belief that few people even question it. It's just part of our culture now.
Almost every day I read or hear about someone proudly that they have a "healthy" diet because they don't eat butter, cheese or red meat or any other foods high in saturated fat (nevermind that red meat isn't particularly high in saturated ...
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