The Paleo Periodical

The Fight for the Soul of Fat People

05/08/2012 by PaleoPeriodical 1 Comment

(Sorry about the glitch yesterday, folks! WordPress prematurely published my post without any content as I was working on it. Here’s the whole tamale.) It must be a slow news cycle or something, because there are lots of stories floating around about the health of the nation and how to help those who are overweight […]

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American Diet, Fat, Featured, Health, New York Times, Obesity, Paleo, Primal

How could these cute, fluffy, tasty creatures possibly be to blame?

They Always Blame the Meat

07/07/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 2 Comments

I’m glad Melissa McEwan said it (here), ’cause I’ve been thinking the same thing. After reading The End of Overeating by David Kessler, McEwan couldn’t help but wonder, “When I see a study that shows meat causes weight gain, I kind of want to know ‘what meat?’.” Apparently, the book blames meat for the epidemic […]

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American Diet, Diet, Fat, Featured, Health, Low Carb, Paleo, Primal, Research

Quick Links: FAT!

05/19/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 4 Comments

Mark’s on FIRE! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Mark Sisson’s fat salvo (click here) over at MarksDailyApple.com. I was glad to see this response from him. Once I got under the umbrella of Paleo/Primal etc., I discovered that many people were there for differing reasons and via some varying methods. Of […]

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Diet, Fat, Food, Gary Taubes, Health, Mark Sisson, Paleo, Primal

“I Could Never Eat All That Meat!” Part 2

05/19/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 2 Comments

After posting my thoughts (here for Part 1) on this common comment, I thought of more. So let’s keep going, shall we? 5) They think meat is disgusting and unhealthy. I remember the look on my husband’s face when I ordered chicken on the bone at a restaurant years ago. I was happily gnawing away […]

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Diet, Fat, Featured, Health, Meat, Paleo, Primal

“I Could Never Eat All That Meat!”

05/17/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 3 Comments

Allow me a rant, if you will. I can’t stand it when someone says this to me. I know it’s not their fault. But it pisses me off for several reasons: It assumes that I’m a hedonist who loves nothing more than to gorge myself on gluttonous, luxuriant meat. It assumes that this decision was […]

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Diet, Fat, Featured, Health, Meat, Paleo, Primal

Genetics and Exercise

03/21/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

The NYTimes’s Well blog recently highlighted a study that found genetic evidence for an individual’s ability to become physically fit through exercise (here). Researchers are hoping this may answer the question of why some improve their fitness through exercise while others don’t. The researchers discovered that one gene marker (called SNP for single nucleotide polymorphism) […]

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Exercise, Fat, Featured, Gary Taubes, Genetics, Health, New York Times, Research

Quick Links: Gary Taubes Weighs in on Childhood Obesity

03/18/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

Here’s another in Slate’s series about childhood obesity. This time they went to Gary Taubes (click here): So if we’re serious about preventing childhood obesity in this country, we need to pay attention to what actually regulates the accumulation of fat in the human body. That means we’re going to have to demonize some industries, […]

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American Diet, Diet, Exercise, Fat, Gaining Weight, Gary Taubes, Health, Research, Slate.com, Why We Get Fat

Paleo on Nightline

03/09/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

In case you missed it, Paleo godfather Art De Vany and The Paleo Solution’s Robb Wolf were featured on ABC’s Nightline last week. I was unable to embed the actual video, so click here if you’d prefer the original. I found this to be mostly free of editorializing and refreshingly free from the quickly dismissive […]

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Paleo in the News, Topics in Paleoland

Art De Vany, Diet, Fat, Paleo, Robb Wolf

Quick Links: Fat, Glorious Fat

03/05/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 5 Comments

Kristin Wartman over at Civil Eats has a great article about how researchers, media influencers, and the medical establishment are beginning to change their tune when it comes to dietary fat. She acknowledges, as I did in my observations on pop culture’s messages, that this change in policy will be a huge undertaking. Several […]

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American Diet, Diet, Fat, Health, Low Carb, Paleo, Primal, Research, Saturated Fat

Is Conventional Wisdom Catching Up?

03/03/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 1 Comment

For a decade, from roughly 1997 to 2007, I read all the magazines I thought would help me with the whole diet and exercise rigmarole: Shape, Self, Cooking Light. I wanted tips, tricks, and recipes. Thinking back now from the vantage point of Primal, it occurs to me that during that time there was a […]