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Bulletproof Coffee for breakfast. The Inuit Paradox. Patricia Cochran, an Inupiat from Northwestern Alaska, is talking about the native foods of her childhood: “We pretty much had a subsistence way of life.

The Inuit Paradox

Our food supply was right outside our front door. We did our hunting and foraging on the Seward Peninsula and along the Bering Sea. “Our meat was seal and walrus, marine mammals that live in cold water and have lots of fat. We used seal oil for our cooking and as a dipping sauce for food. We had moose, caribou, and reindeer. Cochran’s family also received shipments of whale meat from kin living farther north, near Barrow. What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it.

What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates -- are the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. Loren Cordain - Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century. Www.direct-ms.org/pdf/EvolutionPaleolithic/Cereal Sword.pdf. Caveman Diet Could Hold Key To Optimum Nutrition. Tweet Unlikely scientific bedfellows address the evolution of diet and the human genome Unilever has for the first time gathered unlikely scientific bedfellows from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary genetics, food science and botany to recreate the diet of a caveman.

Caveman Diet Could Hold Key To Optimum Nutrition

The research seeks to improve understanding of the complex relationship between our genetic make-up and the changes to our diet since the pre-farming Stone Age period, and could unlock the potential to enhance our own health in the 21st century. Using the latest techniques in biological sciences – such as human genomics, microbiomics, cellculturing and biochemical analysis – Unilever’s team of scientists are exploring what can be learned from the caveman diet (from 2.5m years ago to 12,000 years ago, when man was a hunter gatherer) and how it could enhance modern day nutrition.

Today one could argue that consumers have an increased awareness of the route travelled between food and health. Dr. Prof. » The Complete Illustrated One Page Bulletproof Diet (Upgraded Paleo) The Bulletproof Executive. The Bulletproof Diet Roadmap is the best place to start if you’re unfamiliar with the diet or if you’re looking for an easy reference to the best foods for your body.

» The Complete Illustrated One Page Bulletproof Diet (Upgraded Paleo) The Bulletproof Executive

This one-page download will help you: Easily navigate all aspects of the Bulletproof Diet on a single page (for free!) Get bonus tips on meal timing and fasting protocol Download the Bulletproof Diet Roadmap This one-page guide will help you navigate all aspects of the Bulletproof Diet on a single page Using the Bulletproof Diet Roadmap The Roadmap offers a number of food options on a spectrum of green (eat as much as you want!) Using the Roadmap is simple: Eat the stuff in the green zoneNo calorie counting. The Bulletproof Diet Roadmap also includes details about: When to eatExactly what foods and beverages to includeHow much to eat, including recommended serving sizes. The Beginner's Guide to the Paleo Diet. The Paleo Diet is an effort to eat like we used to back in the day…WAY back in the day.

The Beginner's Guide to the Paleo Diet

If a caveman couldn’t eat it, neither can you. This means anything we could hunt or find – meats, fish, nuts, leafy greens, regional veggies, and seeds. Sorry, the pasta, cereal, and candy will have to go! Instead, you’ll be making things like chicken stir fry and paleo spaghetti. You see, I hate counting calories. I don’t like keeping track of how much I’ve eaten or obsessing over how many grams of a particular nutrient I’ve had. Fortunately, if you can expand your horizons and remove certain types of food from your diet, you can stop worrying about counting calories FOREVER (sorry, the Count – ah ah ah).

I know, that sounds like an ad for some really shady supplement or diet book that you’d see on TV at 4 AM. I’m talking about the Paleo Diet. Paleo Diet Review: Pros and Cons. Diets come, and diets go.

Paleo Diet Review: Pros and Cons

And like fashion, if you wait long enough, what is now out will eventually return -- but with a twist, so you can't dust off the old books, but instead have to buy new ones. And when you think about it, that only makes sense. After all, food really falls into one of only three groups: proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

So all diets are pretty much restricted to mixing things up within those three groups -- thus the repetition. Ahh, but given those limitations, there is still infinite variety -- thus the ever new diet programs.