The Paleo Periodical

Quick Links: Even MORE Support

05/03/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

Well, it’s damn-near official: Processed carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease more than fat does—a finding that has serious implications for new dietary guidelines expected this year. In March the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a meta-analysis—which combines data from […]

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

Calorie Restrictors

05/02/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 2 Comments

The SF Chronicle featured calorie restrictors and UCSF’s intent to study a small group of them (here). The focus of the story, Trent Arsenault, eats about 1,800 calories a day, mostly in the form of fruit smoothies and salads. He’s maintained this calorie deficit for 4-5 years, eating the exact same things for most of […]

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Things That Make You Go Hmm...

Calorie Restriction, Diet, Featured, Food, Health, Paleo, Primal, Research, San Francisco Chronicle

Quick Links: KQED Interview with Dr. Robert Lustig

04/22/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

San Francisco Bay Area NPR station KQED had a chat (here) with the reigning king of anti-sugarness, Dr. Robert Lustig. You may know the good doctor from his YouTube hit Sugar: The Bitter Truth, which as of press time, has over a million views since posting in July of 2009. He was also recently featured […]

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American Diet, Dr. Robert Lustig, Gaining Weight, Health, Obesity, Paleo, Primal, Research, Sugar

Quick Links: Sunday NYTimes Magazine

04/17/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

It’s the NYTimes’ annual health and wellness issue, and there’s a treasure trove of topics for the Paleo-esque community. The NYTimes website has recently gone to a subscription basis. Non-subscribers can view up to 20 articles a month for free. So I apologize in advance if you’re over your quota and can’t see them. But […]

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Exercise, Fitness, Gary Taubes, New York Times, Research, Sleep, Sugar

Too Many Loaves, Not Enough Fishes?

03/27/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

A “study” released last week has been tearing up the internet, and media outlets have been loving it with sensational headlines like “Does God Make You Fat?” Give us the numbers so we can tear it apart already: The study, which tracked 2,433 men and women for 18 years, found normal weight young adults ages […]

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American Diet, Diet, Exercise, Featured, Food, Gaining Weight, Health, Obesity, Religion, Research

Quick Links: Lightning Round!

03/24/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 4 Comments

1. The NYTimes discovers the beauty of the frittata (see my recipe this week here). They include a recipe in the article and four others in the sidebar. Of note: If you avoid eggs because you think they’re bad for you, you should reconsider. It was never clear that dietary cholesterol had a significant impact […]

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Food, Health, New York Times, Paleo, Primal, Research

A little protein, a dash of fat...it's lunch!

Optimal Paleo Nutrition

03/23/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 1 Comment

From the beginning, my resolution has been to make eating like a modern caveperson as simple and sustainable as possible. It had to merge seamlessly into my current life. Which means it couldn’t look anything like those other Diets: no counting, no weighing, no combining, no over-thinking. So Primal eating was a perfect fit. But […]

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Diet, Featured, Food, Health, Macronutrients, Paleo, Primal, Research

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

Quick Links: LA Times on Carbs

03/10/2011 by PaleoPeriodical 0 Comments

Forgive me for coming late to this one. The LA Times published this in December, but I wanted to link to it because it’s one of the most concise and matter-of-fact summaries of the low-carb movement I’ve seen. Carbs wouldn’t be an issue if our metabolisms were designed to handle them. But as Dr. Stephen […]