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Salt: When Did It Ever Become Paleo?
Salt: When Did It Ever Become Paleo? Excerpt A disturbing notion has now crept into virtually all of Paleo diet cookbooks: salt is OK. Recipe after recipe seems to include either salt or sea salt as a key ingredient. Whoa! Where the heck did this idea come from? Certainly not from the peer review scientific which preceded and defined the modern Paleo Diet concept, indicating that added salt was never part of humanity’s original fare. Perhaps this erroneous belief has been promoted by popular, non-scientific Paleo bloggers? I don’t know, but it is time to set the record straight –…
Hold the Mayo and the Ketchup
Hold the Mayo and the Ketchup Excerpt Ubiquitous condiments found in the American cuisine like mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup and salsa are definitely not Paleo in the way that they are commercially manufactured. In my childhood, teen, and early adult years I grew up consuming these condiments on a regular basis (except salsa, because it wasn’t widely available in the ‘60s and ‘70s) as did most of you before you adopted a Paleo Diet. These foods add flavor and texture to nearly all fast foods. Can you imagine a hot dog without mustard? How about a hamburger without mayo, mustard, or…
Myths of the USDA Food Groups
Myths of the USDA Food Groups Excerpt The impetus for this article comes indirectly from U.S. News and World Reports (USNWR) which issued their annual ratings of popular Best Diets for 2014. As per their 2011, 2012 and 2013 evaluations, the DASH diet was rated number one by a panel of nutritional and health “experts,” and The Paleo Diet again emerged last out of 32 diets which were considered. We have previously addressed the USNWR report as it relates to the Paleo Diet in extensive detail. Further, I have added a few important points which can be found in my…
Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) and The Paleo Diet
Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) Excerpt I received a letter from a woman who has been diagnosed with ALS (amyolateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), wondering whether eating Paleo would slow the progress or reverse the progression of the disease. She has limited income and is concerned about the cost of changing her diet if it would not help her condition. For background information, ALS is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord, brainstem and motor cortex. Clinical features include limb weakness with muscle atrophy and a progressive involvement of…
Lectin Based Food Poisoning
Lectin Based Food Poisoning Excerpt In The Dietary Cure for Acne Dr. Cordain discusses how lectins can inhibit the activity of certain zinc dependent enzymes necessary for the proper breakdown and ‘sloughing off’ of skin cells; a process known as exocytosis. Now research done by the Medical College of Georgia has shown that specific lectins are toxic to certain intestinal cells and can even cause cell death. Similar to the acne story, the lectins present on damaged intestinal cells were shown to prevent the normal process of exocytosis of certain mucus cells needed to keep intestinal cells healthy. Back to…
Diet and Acne Revisited
Diet and Acne Revisited Excerpt My contention in all of my scientific writings on the link between diet and acne is that chocolate, certain fatty foods (potato chips, French fries, pizza, doughnuts, etc.) and dairy together with other high glycemic load foods represent the major environmental trigger for acne. Back to The Paleo Diet Store If you have any questions regarding The Insider Vol 6 Issue 10 Diet and Acne Revisited please email us at info@thepaleodiet.com
What’s the Skinny on Ghee?
What’s the Skinny on Ghee Excerpt If you are not familiar with ghee, it comes from the Sanskrit word ghrita, meaning bright, and is clarified butter fat in which most of the water has been boiled off and the nonfat solids removed by continued heating, filtration, or decanting the remaining oil mixture. Traditional societies in India and elsewhere have produced and consumed ghee since at least 1500 BC. HOW IS IT MANUFACTURED? Milk butter or desi method Direct cream method Cream butter method Pre-stratification method All four commercial procedures to produce ghee rely upon heating at temperatures from 105° to…
A Chronicle of Hominids and Aurochs
A Chronicle of Hominids and Aurochs Excerpt Ever wonder how humans and cows first connected and how people came to eat beef steaks? We’re giving you the first look at the long line of evolutionary history between cows and humans that finally led to Big Macs. It could be argued that the single most important animal domestication event in human history was taming Bos primigenius (common name: aurochs). Of the world’s medium to large sized mammals, the global cattle population, 1.355 billion, (FAO 2007) is second only to humans, 6.67 billion (United Nations 2008:11). Cattle occupy 30% of the earth’s…
Peanut Particulars
Peanut Particulars Excerpt Most nutritional experts would tell us that they are heart healthy foods because they contain little saturated fat and most of their fat is made up of blood cholesterol lowering monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Hence, on the surface, you might think that peanut oil would probably be helpful in preventing the artery clogging process (atherosclerosis) that underlies heart disease. Your thoughts were not much different from those of nutritional scientists – that is until they actually tested peanuts and peanut oil in laboratory animals. Back to The Paleo Diet Store If you have any questions regarding The…
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