Category Archives: Paleo diet
Science in Support of the Paleo Diet
Investigators at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden found diminished weight, body mass index, blood pressure, and waist circumference in 14 healthy medical students eating a paleo diet for three weeks. I reviewed this research report in my effort to determine … Continue reading
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Random Thoughts On Paleo Eating for People With Diabetes
I was interviewed a couple months ago by Amy Stockwell Mercer, author of Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes. All I knew beforehand was that she was interested in my thoughts on the paleo diet as applied to diabetes. I think … Continue reading
Who’s Ray Audette?
I ran across a 1995 well-researched online article about Ray Audette, author of NeanderThin and one of the modern paleo movement pioneers. It’s in Dallas Observer News: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1995-07-06/news/neander-guy/ Audette apparently self-published his book in 1995. (Publishing by a “vanity press” … Continue reading
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Evidence for Human Grain Consumption 100,000 Years Ago
ScienceDaily on December 17, 2009, reported findings of a Canadian archeological team who found evidence of systematic grain consumption by ancient humans in Africa: The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously … Continue reading
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UCSF Investigating Paleolithic Diet For Diabetics
A May, 2010, press release from University of California San Francisco outlines the university’s research into use of the Paleolithic diet (aka Stone Age or caveman diet) for people with type 2 diabetes. From the press release: The initial … Continue reading
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