If you knew there was arsenic in your food, would you eat it? More importantly, would you serve it to your children?
Recently, Consumer Reports Magazine released their analysis of arsenic levels in rice products, and the results were concerning. Popular rice products including white rice, brown rice, organic rice baby cereal, and rice breakfast cereals, were all found to contain arsenic, a potent carcinogen that can also be harmful to a child’s developing brain.
"In virtually every product ...
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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 osteoporosis
While 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 ...
So far in this series we've focused on a new way of understanding diabesity as an autoimmune, inflammatory disorder, and we've looked in a general way at the underlying mechanisms (inflammation, genetics, environmental triggers and leaky gut) that contribute to diabesity.
Now that we've laid that foundation, we're going to take a closer look at some of those mechanisms. In this article, we'll discuss the three major dietary toxins that trigger diabesity:
Cereal grains (especially refined flour)
Omega-6 ...
This is going to be a long article and I know not everyone will have time to read it. So I'm going to summarize the key points right up front because I think this information is so important:
Overview
Selenium protects against mercury toxicity, and 16 of the 25 highest dietary sources of selenium are ocean fish
If a fish contains higher levels of selenium than mercury, it is safe to eat
Most species of commonly eaten fish in the ...
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