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Nutritional Differences Between Grain and Grass Fed Beef
Excerpt from Dr. Loren Cordain’s “Nutritional Differences Between Grain and Grass Fed Beef” Beginning in the mid 1980’s a series of key publications in mainstream medical and nutrition journals triggered an increased awareness of the relevance of ancestral human diets to the health and well being of contemporary people. Because of these insights as well as others gleaned from a variety of medical branches of learning, an entirely new academic discipline dubbed “evolutionary medicine” was born. The primary tenet of evolutionary medicine is that the profound changes in the environment (e.g. in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with…
Consumption of Nightshade Plants, Human Health, and Autoimmune Disease
Consumption of Nightshade Plants, Human Health, and Autoimmune Disease Excerpt Nightshade is the common name for flowering plants belonging to the botanical family Solanaceae, which contain more than 75 genera and 2,000 species. Some notorious non-edible nightshades include tobacco, petunias, jimson weed, mandrake, and deadly nightshade. The family comprises well known food plants such as potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers, chili peppers, eggplants and tomatillos. Note that chili peppers include all varieties of peppers from the genus Capsicum, including bell peppers, jalapeno, wax, cayenne, habanero, Anaheim, Thai, Tabasco, cherry, pepperoncini and Serrano among others. Chili peppers are commonly consumed as dried powders such…
Egg Whites and Autoimmune Disease
Egg Whites and Autoimmune Disease Excerpt In all of my books, I have advocated egg consumption, particularly eggs that are produced with high omega 3 fatty acid contents. Chicken eggs are generally a nutritious food and are a good source of selenium, vitamin A, vitamin D and the B vitamins and some minerals. Additionally, numerous recent experimental and epidemiological studies indicate that regular egg consumption (7 per week) does not increase the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). As I have previously noted, although eggs are one of the most concentrated sources of dietary cholesterol (212 mg per egg), dietary…
Tomatoes, Vaccines, and Autoimmune Disease
Tomatoes, Vaccines, and Autoimmune Disease Excerpt After cardiovascular disease and cancer, autoimmune diseases are the most common class of illnesses in the U.S., afflicting between 14.7 to 23.5 million people or 5 to 8 % of the entire population.1 By far, the burden of these diseases disproportionately involves women, who sustain 78.8 % of all cases of autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases develop when the body’s immune system loses the ability to distinguish between what is “self” and what is “non-self” and attacks healthy tissues and organs as if they were a foreign invader. Approximately 30% of the risk for developing an…
Diet and Acne
Diet and Acne Excerpt Following our 2002 publication in The Archives of Dermatology demonstrating that acne was not present in two non-westernized populations, there has been renewed interest in the role that diet may play in the pathogenesis of this disease. In the past two years, there have been many studies that now support the link between diet and acne. Although these reports will need to be followed up by more extensive experiments, they are important for two reasons: 1) They represent the only well controlled, modern studies of diet and acne that have been published in more than35 years,…
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