What I Learned From Gary Taubes

If you’ve been reading PP for awhile, you probably know that Gary Taubes’s book Why We Get Fat was my gateway to adopting the Paleo/Primal lifestyle. (See here for more on my intellectual journey.) And then the first annual Ancestral Health Symposium happened in August 2011, and the big news to come out of that […]

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Quick Links: FAT!

Mark’s on FIRE! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Mark Sisson’s fat salvo (click here) over at MarksDailyApple.com. I was glad to see this response from him. Once I got under the umbrella of Paleo/Primal etc., I discovered that many people were there for differing reasons and via some varying methods. Of […]

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Quick Links: Don’t Pass On the Salt

Last week, the NY Times discussed a study (here) that found: …that the less salt people ate, the more likely they were to die of heart disease — 50 people in the lowest third of salt consumption (2.5 grams of sodium per day) died during the study as compared with 24 in the medium group […]

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Quick Links: Sunday NYTimes Magazine

It’s the NYTimes’ annual health and wellness issue, and there’s a treasure trove of topics for the Paleo-esque community. The NYTimes website has recently gone to a subscription basis. Non-subscribers can view up to 20 articles a month for free. So I apologize in advance if you’re over your quota and can’t see them. But […]

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Genetics and Exercise

The NYTimes’s Well blog recently highlighted a study that found genetic evidence for an individual’s ability to become physically fit through exercise (here). Researchers are hoping this may answer the question of why some improve their fitness through exercise while others don’t. The researchers discovered that one gene marker (called SNP for single nucleotide polymorphism) […]

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Quick Links: Gary Taubes Weighs in on Childhood Obesity

Here’s another in Slate’s series about childhood obesity. This time they went to Gary Taubes (click here): So if we’re serious about preventing childhood obesity in this country, we need to pay attention to what actually regulates the accumulation of fat in the human body. That means we’re going to have to demonize some industries, […]

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The Benefits of Less

Before going Primal, I felt enslaved to my hunger cues. Intellectually, I knew that I had only eaten my breakfast of oatmeal with bananas and dried cranberries two hours prior. But physiologically, my body wanted a snack NOW! *Cue scary violin music* With such stabbing insistence in the belly, what is one to do? With […]

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Where does fat come from?

A seemingly silly question, right? Fat comes from fat, duh. Not so fast… The New York Times has an article detailing a study on monkeys, wherein the monkeys are obesified through a diet mimicking the SAD. But this really grabbed my attention: They also drink a fruit-flavored punch with the fructose equivalent of about a […]

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In a Nutshell…

I only switched over to this lifestyle a little over a month ago, but I feel like I’ve researched and processed a lot of information in that time. Primal eating attracted me for its ease, its simplicity. I feel like I can maintain the flow of it even when eating out or at friends’ houses, […]

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