Friday, December 27, 2013 at 08:37AM 
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Gluten Sensitivity on the Rise
Paleolithic Nutrition: Alzheimer’s and Diet
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Simply Paleo: Sautéed Chicken with Broccoli and Carrots
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 08:53PM
"My health the past 13 years has been a roller coaster ride. I had hyperlipidemia, elevated liver enzymes, several sebaceous cysts surgically removed, extremely severe acne (dermatologist treated 30 years), GERD, irritable bowel, and frequent strep throat. I had several extreme febrile episodes of unknown diagnosis. ...I frequently felt fatigued and just wanted to collapse when home from work; I had poor sleep for many years – I attributed it to being 40 and overweight. I also had significant joint pain and stiffness in my shoulders, neck, ankles and knees – again I attributed it to getting older, being overweight and past injuries."
Read more Before and After: Healthier at Age 44 Than 24: How I Lost 115 Pounds and Turned My Life Around
Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 10:47AM
"The typical hunter-gatherer diet was very diverse. Over the course of a year a diet might have included hundreds of wild plant species and dozens of wild mammals, fish, reptiles, and insects. Almost the entire animal would be eaten or put to use, including bones, organs, and marrow. Roots and tubers were an important food source. The wild predecessors to grains - like wheat, corn, or rice - were negligible until late in the Paleolithic, though some wild grasses were consumed (we ended up domesticating them after all). Some foods were eaten raw, but a variety of cooking techniques were used. Because of the wide variety of food available and the tribe's migrations, famine was rare to nonexistent."
Friday, November 15, 2013 at 10:15PM “In December 2009, I was 25 years old and weighed 210 lbs. I was obese for my 5’5″ frame, never felt well, and was popping handfuls of pills every day just to get by. I was taking 2 anti-depressants, anxiolytics, prescription sleeping pills, courses of Prilosec once or twice a month, acid-blocking pills or antacid tablets 1-3 times a day, anti-diarrhea pills several days a week, and I was constantly catching respiratory infections and frequently took courses of antibiotics.
“… one fateful day somebody posted a link to Mark’s Daily Apple.”
“I was completely blown away. Everything I thought I knew to be true about diet, health, and weight loss was all wrong.”
Learn more: I Am Strong, Energized, Off All Medications, and Feel Wonderful!
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 09:06PM "A study that measured contamination by gluten tested 22 single-ingredient inherently gluten-free grains, seeds and flours, and found 32% of these products contained >20 ppm gluten and one product contained 2,925 ppm of gluten. The products tested that were positive for gluten included soy, millet, buckwheat, rice and sorghum flour. This is sufficient gluten to cause on-going symptoms in many celiac disease individuals.[1]"
Learm more at Primal Docs: Non Responsive and Refractory Celiac Disease Study: A paleo type diet gives 100% remission for most
Primal Docs, Primal diet, buckwheat, millet, rice, sorghum flour, soy in Modern Diseases Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 08:42PM BEFORE
I am a Registered Nurse and was taught the Standard American Diet (SAD), therefore, I taught my patients the same, “whole grains and brown rice are good for you!”
AFTER
After David was convinced of this Primal lifestyle, he tried to convince me. I remember saying, “but David, you NEED grains!” “Why?” he asked. “Well, I’m not sure, but it’s part of the food pyramid.” I look back at that silly conversation now and giggle!
Learn More at Marks's Daily Apple: I Am Healed from the Inside Out!
Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 08:26AM Writing in Primal Docs, Nutrition Therapist Neely Quinn provides advice for vegetarians considering a transition to the Paleo Diet:
"So how does a vegetarian transition to Paleo? This is actually a pretty common concern among vegetarians, and sometimes a valid one. In my experience with clients and readers, I’ve noticed that some people’s bodies stop producing enough of the necessary enzymes and other digestive juices to break down meat after being vegetarian for a while."
Learn more
Primal Docs: How Does a Vegetarian Transition to Paleo?
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Primal diet in Nutrition Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 09:29PM "I decided to stop eating red meat when I was 12 years old. It was a decision I made based on something I had read about slaughterhouses. I eventually transitioned into a full-blown vegetarian. My mom followed suit and we primarily lived off veggie burgers and salads during my teen years. Oh yeah, and popcorn was a big staple in our house, with fat free “butter” sprayed all over it."
And later:
"Eating a high-grain low-fat diet was causing a host of issues, including an increase in seasonal allergies, acne problems, and constant digestion trouble."
Read more: Mark's Daily Apple
Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 08:36PM "Overall, there is accumulating evidence, albeit mostly adjunctive treatments, that agents working on inflammatory pathways have some benefits in people with schizophrenia. In the next few years the field will begin to see data on many treatments with anti-inflammatory properties that are currently under study. Hopefully advancements in understanding inflammation and effective treatments having anti-inflammatory properties may help revolutionize our understanding and provide new targets for prevention and treatment in schizophrenia."
Source: A review of anti-inflammatory agents for symptoms of schizophrenia.
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:38AM Mark Sisson at Mark's Daily Apple has a great post on how to "Shop, Cook, and Dine Primally":
"You know what not to eat, and the Primal Blueprint Shopping List shows you what you should be eating, but what’s next? How do you apply your newfound knowledge? How and where should you shop? Once you’re well-stocked, how do you begin to cook Primally? What equipment do you use and where do you get the proper recipes? And when you’re eating out, how do you make good choices? What do you tell the waiters? How do you navigate the nutritional minefield that is the modern restaurant menu? If it seems overwhelming, it’s really not."
Learn more here.
Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 12:44PM In this YouTube video, Dhru Purohit, CEO of The Clean Program, cardiologist Dr. Alejandro Junger, and wellness coach John Rosania talk about a Big Idea: Food is Information. Here are a few excerpts:
Dr. Junger
When you put food into your mouth and is digested and absorbed into you body, it is broken down in little pieces and these pieces will go and join receptors in the cell that will tell the nucleus, the DNA, many things about your environment … the food will tell the cells if it is summer or winter, if there are certain minerals lacking which would mean that those fields are not appropriate for them to live in permanently, and many other things and also it will give you information of certain things that are threats to the body, for example carcinogens and things like that. So with that information, the cell will start activating and deactivating genes in order to adapt and survive….
Where does the body get the information to turn on certain genes .. or to turn off certain genes? … mostly from the nutrients.
Dhru Purohit
Most doctors … will tell you a calorie is a calorie. … What we are saying is that calories are not necessarily just equal. Food has deeper information…
… your food is telling you body how to express itself, its telling your genes how to express itself, it is telling your gut what kind of environment to create inside of the body.
Dr. Junger
(Referring to plaque buildup in the cardiac arteries) The lifestyle we are carrying today, is a continuous insult, so the people that are getting continuous irritation in the artery, continue to get irritation, continue to get irritation …
(The solution) … “a big part of it, is what you eat and what you don’t.
John Rosania
Toxic tagalongs are … all those preservatives, conservatives, chemicals that are used to … keep processed foods stable ….
Why food is information interests me and why I think it is useful … it makes me more excited about recognizing that food is the base ... the main foundation. (to health)
Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 11:21PM After reading multiple sources on the science and justification for this diet, I decided to try it for 30 days. I had my physician order some blood work for later comparison, cleaned out my cabinets, and got to it.
The results forever changed how I would think of food. What I had originally thought was a diet of moderation and general health was in fact quite the opposite.
According to my pre-diet blood profile, I was quickly approaching necessary medical intervention. My total cholesterol and LDL levels were far too high. HDL levels were quite low as well.
After 30 days of eating only approved foods, every blood value I had tested had improved. The test ran values on 15 various markers and every single test came back healthier.