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Beyond Paleo: moving from a “paleo diet” to a “paleo template”

June 17, 2011 in Food & Nutrition | 107 comments

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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5 fats you should be cooking with – but may not be

February 17, 2011 in Food & Nutrition | 37 comments

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 ...
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9 Steps to Perfect Health – #2: Nourish Your Body

February 3, 2011 in Food & Nutrition, Perfect Health | 89 comments

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 ...
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New study blasts the ridiculous low-fat dietary guidelines

October 3, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex | 14 comments

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 ...
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