I finished The End of Food: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply-And What You Can Do about It by Thomas Pawlick last night. This is a solid book that describes everything from how our food is raised to how our food is packaged. The first chapter runs through the lack [...]
Here are two images from the latest Organic Consumers newsletter showing organic brands owned by major food manufacturers and independent organic manufacturers. It’s interesting that most of the organic products that are found in a typical supermarket are from the conglomerates, rather than the independents. The only independents that I can recall seeing [...]
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This picture from The Economist says a lot. Americans watch an average of 8 hours and 11 minutes of television per day.
DESPITE an increase in entertainment choices, watching television remains as popular as ever, according to the OECD’s “Communications Outlook 2007″. In 15 of the 18 countries for which data were collected, broadcast-TV [...]
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Here are a few posts from the past couple weeks that I’ve enjoyed:
Frank Forencich, the Exuberant Animal, discusses Who’s Holistic? I really like the stuff Frank writes on his Animal Times site. I really like how he closes it out:
It doesn’t matter whether you’re working at a school, a gym or a studio. [...]
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There was an interesting discussion of using Intermittent Fasting for life extension at the Performance Menu a few weeks ago. Robb Wolf, in all his genius, mentioned something I’d never heard of before known as the Hayflick Limit. This principle is a conondrum for those hoping for to extend life much beyond normal [...]
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I finished The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates about two weeks ago (and just now got around to writing a review). Overall, it is a high quality book. It tends to be a bit new-ageish in parts and I’m not sure all of the colon cleansing is necessary. But the key [...]
Dr. Cordain’s latest Paleo Diet Newsletter is now available. This one focuses on the concept of the Paleo Diet and discusses the Agricultural Revolution.
“Eat 5 smaller meals per day to maintain energy levels.” That’s pretty common knowledge in the nutrition world, is it not? I reject this line of thought. I eat only as many times as I need to eat each day. My day consists of somewhere between 1 and 3 meals, generally [...]
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Say it ain’t so Joe! But it is. Imagine that…eating a diet in line with our genetic roots helps people regain/maintain their health. Here is the abstract of the study for those inclined to read such things.
The main result was that the blood sugar rise in response to carbohydrate intake was [...]
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