Amber Waves of Grain
Miguel Carrera posted a link to an interesting article in the comments of my recent post on whole grains. Published in BioMed Central, it is titled Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence - Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance? I found it to be a very interesting and informative [...]
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Photos courtesy of justydrink and Roger Smith
Recently, there was a comment left by Carl on my Veganism post from October of 2007. In his comment, he made the following claim:
Just before man began to take it’s first steps towards being the humans we are today, it is actually a fact that humans began to [...]
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A friend sent me this article from Psychology Today about dreams and their function. This is obviously just one of many theories about dreams, but I found the evolutionary context of this theory interesting. So much seems to make sense when put into the context of evolutionary pressures.
Dreams may do the same thing. [...]
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I just finished The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins. Given the subtitle and having seen some of Dawkins speeches directly targeting religion, I expected a rather incendiary rant. Luckily, I was pleasantly surprised; apparently he’s become more vitriolic towards religion in the past [...]
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So I talk a good deal about the evolutionary diet and how it’s the proper diet for optimal health and longevity, but I’ve never really discussed how to adopt such a diet. It’s absurd to think that one following the typical Western diet of grains, sugar, grains, sugar, grains, no fat, grains, and processed [...]
Here’s an unintentionally humorous article from WebMD: Foods With Something Extra - Functional, enriched, and fortified foods offer health bonuses. I had my first good laugh (groan might be more appropriate) with the opening paragraph. It didn’t get better as the article continued.
Fooling Mother Nature can sometimes be a good thing. In the [...]
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Now that I’ve re-devoted my free time to reading, I’m burning through books at a pretty good clip. This past week, I read Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. It was an interesting book, discussing the advantages that various diseases conferred on people throughout the ages and [...]
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Here is an interesting study that I was pointed to on the CrossFit Message Board:
Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward
First, the methodology (from the abstract…more information follows in the full text):
Here we report that when rats were allowed to choose mutually-exclusively between water sweetened with saccharin–an intense calorie-free sweetener–and intravenous cocaine–a highly addictive and harmful substance–the [...]
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“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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‘Out Of Africa’ Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In AfricaEarliest Evidence Of Modern Humans In Europe Discovered: Artifacts May Date Back 45,000 Years
I came across these two articles on Science Daily yesterday. One deals with the dating of a human skull found outside Cape Town, South Africa from about 36,000 years [...]
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