Tag 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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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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Book Review: The Smarter Science of Slim
I recently read The Smarter Science of Slim, by Jonathan Bailor and published in 2012. Per Amazon.com’s rating system, I give it four stars (“I like it”). ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. Bailor’s weight-management diet avoids grains, most dairy, oils, refined … Continue reading
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Introducing Paleo Diabetic, a New Blog
A few of my patients have asked me if the paleo diet and lifestyle would be good for their diabetes. I’m not sure. A few pilot studies suggest it would be. I expect much more published scientific research over the coming … Continue reading
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How Common Is Celiac Disease?
Celiac disease, aka gluten enteropathy, affects one of every 133 Americans, according to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse. That’s much more common than we thought a couple decades ago. Read about celiac disease symptoms and physical signs at About.com … Continue reading
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Pilot Study: Paleo Diet Is More Satiating Than Mediterranean-Style
Swedish researchers reported recently that a Paleolithic diet was more satiating than a Mediterranean-style diet, when compared on a calorie-for-calorie basis in heart patients. Both groups of study subjects reported equal degrees of satiety, but the paleo dieters ended up … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day
Here’s one the paleo diet advocates will like. The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. —Edward Jenner (1749-1823), of smallpox vaccination … Continue reading
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Paleo and Low-Carb Diets: Much In Common?
My superficial reading of the paleo diet literature led me to think Dr. Loren Cordain was the modern originator of this trend, so I was surprised to find an article on the Stone Age diet and modern degenerative diseases in a … Continue reading
