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Chris Kresser’s “9 Steps to Perfect Health”

Posted in Health & wellness on May 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Wow, I was only in Pittsburgh for a long Memorial Day weekend, but it felt like being off the grid!

Chris KresserAnyways, got home this afternoon and am catching up on everything I missed, including this podcast of Chris Kresser and Sean Croxton.

Good stuff as usual from Chris, and it prompted me to mention again that I think his 9 Steps to Perfect Health rocks:

  1. Don’t eat toxins.
  2. Nourish your body.
  3. Eat real food.
  4. Supplement wisely.
  5. Heal your gut.
  6. Manage stress.
  7. Move like your ancestors.
  8. Sleep more deeply.
  9. Practice pleasure.

There are some great diet sites out there (I particularly like the Jaminets’ Perfect Health Diet), but Chris points out that while nutrition is critical, there are other important elements to health too.

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Quote of the day

Posted in QOTD on May 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »

I just watched Gabor Mate’s Brain Development & Addiction video again (this video rocks!), as I’m working on a post on food, addiction, and reward to complement what’s going on over at Whole Health Source.

But this time, this quote from the very end of the video really caught my attention:

Only in the presence of compassion, will people allow themselves to see the truth. — A.H. Almaas

In my mind, this holds as true for obesity as it does for drug addiction. Beating people up about their weight just really sucks as a strategy.

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Quote of the day

Posted in QOTD on May 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Via John, this quote from C.S. Lewis is about religion, but I think it holds for obesity as well:

The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.

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Friday cat blogging

Posted in Friday cat blogging on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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The 1-hour Cordain

Posted in Ancestral health, Diet on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Got an hour? This is well worth the watch if you do. Loren Cordain makes the case for an ancestral (aka paleo or primal) diet in a very accessible way.

Me, I’m with Kurt Harris (and the WAPF folks) that there are good neolithic foods, including dairy. But that’s quibbling around the margins. It’s far more likely that the industrial foods of the last 100 or so years are a bigger problem than those that have been around for 10,000.

Give it a watch and see if you don’t see the usefulness of eating more real, whole foods and less processed, industrial foods.

Related link: Ancestral diet & lifestyle review paper

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About ’emotional’ eating

Posted in Brain & appetite, Food addiction, Psychology on May 15, 2011 | 15 Comments »

emotional eaterEarlier this month, John Briffa wrote an interesting post on his blog: Is ‘emotional eating’ always due to emotions?

In my experience, many individuals who believe they have an ‘emotional eating’ problem appear to have nothing of the sort. How do I know this? Because, I’ve seen time and again that when an ‘emotional’ eater eats properly, and in particular stabilise their blood sugar level, their ‘emotional ‘eating’ just disappears. In many individuals, what appears to be a psychological issue is, in reality, physiological in nature.

Well, I’d argue, as I did in Dr. Briffa’s comments, that all “emotional” eating is essentially physiological!

Now wait, hear me out. Are emotions involved in overeating? Absolutely. But my argument is that you can’t really separate stressful emotions from the physiological — and that has implications for how to deal with it.

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Friday cat blogging

Posted in Friday cat blogging on May 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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