Eat Like a Caveman? Field Notes from a Conference on the Paleo Diet | Age of Engagement. --Guest post by Patrick Riley, AoE Culture Correspondent If you accept the notion that no one knows what to eat these days since they're bombarded with conflicting nutritional advice at every turn, then the several hundred people who attended this past weekend's Ancestral Health Symposium in Los Angeles must be an exception to that as they seem to have a handle on it. By now you've heard of the Paleo Diet or the Caveman Diet, what Details magazine called one side in "an epic struggle" underway between "meat lovers and vegans. " It generally refers to eating like our hunter-gather ancestors (and more recent tribes) who ate animals and vegetables - but little or no sugar, grains, legumes, vegetable oils or dairy (though many people prefer to ignore that last one) - and apparently weren't affected by obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc.
Having just arrived in Southern California from an extended stay in Vietnam provided me with a perspective of the two ends of the eating spectrum. How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise. Fat Loss via Better Science and Simplicity It is possible to lose 20 lbs. of bodyfat in 30 days by optimizing any of three factors: exercise, diet, or drug/supplement regimen. I’ve seen the elite implementation of all three in working with professional athletes. In this post, we’ll explore what I refer to as the “slow-carb diet”. In the last six weeks, I have cut from about 180 lbs. to 165 lbs., while adding about 10 lbs. of muscle, which means I’ve lost about 25 lbs. of fat. Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates Avoid any carbohydrate that is — or can be — white.
Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat loss, eat the same few meals over and over again. Proteins: Egg whites with one whole egg for flavor Chicken breast or thigh Grass-fed organic beef Pork Legumes: Lentils Black beans Pinto beans Vegetables: Spinach Asparagus Peas Mixed vegetables Eat as much as you like of the above food items. 7 Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fat. Photo: Eduardo Amorim I’ve invited Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, two of my favorite bariatric (obesity treatment) doctors in the US and the first to introduce insulin resistance to the mainstream, to explain the facts and benefits of increased saturated fat intake… The sub-headings are mine, and a few edits have been made for space and context.
Please see Dr. Mid-Section Fat Loss: Problem Solved? A couple of generations ago two physicians—one on the East Coast, one on the West—while working long hours with many patients, serendipitously stumbled onto a method to rapidly decrease fat around the mid-section. Blake Donaldson, M.D., who practiced in Manhattan, was looking for a treatment for allergies; Walter Voegtlin, M.D., a Seattle gastroenterologist, was trying to figure out a better method for treating his patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. What was their secret? Both had their patients follow an all-meat diet. An all-meat diet? Yes, an all-meat diet. Heartburn Cured | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. Bad heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as it’s called in medical parlance is a wretched disorder that causes misery to millions of people. This problem is so widespread that the drug companies that make medications to lessen the symptoms (the little purple pill that is advertised continuously, for instance) are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Those of us in the business of treating patients with low-carbohydrate diets have known for years that these diets successfully treat GERD virtually 100 percent of the time. Until now, we haven’t known why. Thanks to Norm Robillard, Ph.D. we now have a mechanism for how GERD happens and why the low-carb diet works so successfully to treat it. Before we get to Dr. The lining of the stomach contains a number of specialized cells. When stomach acid does reflux into the esophagus it burns the unprotected esophageal lining, causing a dull discomfort in the central chest area called heartburn. Dr. Sunshine Superman | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. “If I had to give you a single secret ingredient that could apply to the prevention — and treatment, in many cases — of heart disease, common cancers, stroke, infectious diseases from influenza to tuberculosis, type 1 and 2 diabetes, dementia, depression, insomnia, muscle weakness, joint pain, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, and hypertension, it would be this: vitamin D.”
During the whirlwind that has been my life of late, I managed to make my way through Dr. Michael Holick’s terrific book The Vitamin D Solution from which the above quote comes. Before I get started on my review, in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve got to tell you that of all the books I’ve reviewed on this blog since its inception, this is the first and only one that I’ve been sent gratis by the publisher. It was strange how it came about. I learned of this book long before it was published and had pre-ordered it through Amazon. Dr. Dr. Why? Dr. The Statinator Paradox | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. Pity the poor lipophobes and statinators. They’ve just taken another grievous wound to their favorite theory and haven’t even got sense enough to know it. In fact, not only do they not have sense enough to realize they’ve taken the hit, they’re actually crowing about it.
The current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has an article titled Trends in High Levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in the United States, 1999-2006 that puts another major dent in whatever validity remains of the lipid hypothesis of heart disease. I’m going to start categorizing the types of findings published in this paper under the rubric of The Statinator Paradox. I find it interesting that whenever scientists discover data that shows the opposite of what their hypotheses predict, they don’t conclude that their hypotheses might be wrong; instead they deem the contradiction a ‘paradox’ and bumble on ahead with their hypotheses intact. Same thing happened with the Spanish.