Doug McGuff (Body By Science) wonders: I was thinking recently about how devastated certain populations have been by the neolithic diet and way of life. The Pima Indians and Inuit come to mind. I think their proximity to their ancestral way of life and diet has not given them much opportunity to make genetic and [...]
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Quote of the day
Posted in Ancestral health, QOTD on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Psyched for my new shoes
Posted in Ancestral health on March 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Now that I’m more mobile, I’m planning on getting back to my previous walking form (hopefully by AHS12!). So, that means new shoes. And for me, it means new minimalist shoes. I have this thing with barefoot or minimalist shoes, it’s like Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. Vibram Five Fingers are too uncomfortable (I do [...]
AHS12 tickets available
Posted in Ancestral health on March 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tickets for the second Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS12) are now available. If you were debating about going last year but didn’t, I definitely encourage you to consider the sequel! This year’s program looks just as promising as last year’s, and best yet, there’s an extra half-day of paleo goodness! Location. I lived in Boston for [...]
My Mat Lalonde-inspired approach for Lent
Posted in Ancestral health, Diet, Me, me, me on February 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been following a paleo-esque diet for a while now. Regular readers know that my diet is the love child of the Jaminets’ PHD and Tim Ferriss’ SCD: I eat PHD most of the week, and once a week, I eat whatever I like. This has been working very well for me, but I have [...]
Darwin and change
Posted in Ancestral health on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Via pourmecoffee, this great Shepard Fairey parody:
Mat Lalonde on science and paleo
Posted in Ancestral health on January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Wow. This is a MUST watch video. Yes, it’s a little geeky (his nickname isn’t Mat the Kraken for nothing), but most of it is pretty accessible. Mat is a former vegan (2 years) and vegetarian (8 years), who has adopted a paleo-ish diet. But he almost didn’t, because he find some of the paleo [...]
Treating MS with a hunter-gatherer diet
Posted in Ancestral health on December 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was leery to jump on the bandwagon of this video … the last time something was going around like wildfire among the paleo blogosphere it was that ex-vegetarian everyone thought was all that (but wasn’t really). But I fortunately gave in on this one, as it turns out it is very compelling. In it, [...]
Harvard-bound for #AHS12!
Posted in Ancestral health on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Woo hoo!! I’m very psyched that it’s now a matter of public record: I’m going to be the volunteer chair for next year’s Ancestral Health Symposium. I thought the first symposium was amazing, so it’s going to be a challenge to exceed the bar set by last year’s team. But as good as the program [...]
Why I don’t eat low-carb
Posted in Ancestral health, Low carb, Macronutrients on October 8, 2011 | 9 Comments »
A month ago I wrote a post about why I eat moderate carb. This installment, why I don’t eat low-carb, has been inspired by Jimmy Moore’s Is There Any Such Thing As ‘Safe Starches’ On A Low-Carb Diet? As the discussion on PaleoHacks indicates, there were some plusses and minuses about Jimmy’s blog post. On [...]
A quick evolutionary look at obesity
Posted in Ancestral health, Obesity on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Via Conditioning Research comes this 2008 talk by Dr. John Ratey at Google. Watch the whole thing for a compelling view on the benefits of exercise re brain health. But for the purposes of this post, he makes an important point (around the 4:00 mark) that there are two traits we inherited from our ancestors: [...]
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