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September 2011

Monthly Archive: September 2011

Mobile Nutri-Posting Fun!

I’m a huge mobile, Windows Phone addict and I’ve been using this great app called “LiveScape” to track my nutrition and activity. It dawned on me today that I can post updates from this activity that would show up in my twitter feed down on the right. Probably not a bit of help for anybody but I geek out about this stuff so bear with me. If you’re a Windows Phone user, this application is incredible and I highly recommend checking it out.   

Starting at the Bottom… of the Pyramid

Before I start on the stuff that really isn’t much fun, I want to point out that I’m not pioneering anything here. Everything that I mention comes from the hard work of others in the research and medical sciences fields. It will help me lay the groundwork for why I decided to do what I am doing and provide everyone else ways to investigate these topics further. In addition, genetics and gene expression play a critical role in most of the problem foods today that simply didn’t exist for our ancestors. People indiginous to particular locations may slowly developed tolerances for and adaptations to certain foods. However, there’s rarely a complete pass for anyone on all of these foods. So, Paleo considers grains, legumes, and dairy to be problematic for many people. While sugar just plain isn’t good for anyone. Let’s break this down and examine what is going on here and why we want to limit foods from these groups. Wheat This includes grains in general but the big offenders are wheat, rye, and barley. Have you noticed the “Gluten Free” labels showing up on so many things in your market? Gluten is the protein that comes from the…
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So What is Paleo?

{EAV_BLOG_VER:dacf50bedd548425} There’s a whole movement centered around ancestral health and the Paleolithic diet which has its roots in evolutionary biology. What keeps this from being just a fad diet? Most notably the fact that it’s what humans ate for at least 100’s of thousands of years prior to the agricultural revolution. It’s a diet in the “this is what we eat” sense and not in the “I want to lose weight” sense. Although you’ll find that pretty easy to do as well. Wikipedia states “Centered on commonly available modern foods, the “contemporary” Paleolithic diet consists mainly of grass-fed pasture raised meats, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils.” Unfortunately, that is about the only helpful piece of information in the first 3 paragraphs of the page. The rest is repeated fear mongering of other news stories based on biased and misinformed people. Those who make it passed the initial cries of alarm will find a decent reference of the history and science of the last 40 years of research that has led to this. Let’s take a look again at that list of foods again… Beef Fish Vegetables Fruit…
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Introduction: How did I get here?

I started this journey a year ago pretty much like so many others. Both as in other people and in other personal attempts to lose weight. I had previously seen a lot of success on what was Larry North’s Great American Diet. I credit him with getting me started in actually thinking about nutrition and the fuel that makes our bodies work. If you aren’t familiar with this diet, it is basically a zone diet. I also had some friends doing the Atkins diet with a lot of success. So I started out like before trying to eat 5-6 smaller portioned, well balanced meals each day. I saw the most success when I reduced my carbs so I was really customizing my plan based on what my body was telling me. A couple months into this, I was listening to some of my favorite programming podcasts and the term paleo kept getting mentioned, particularly by Dan Benjamin and his 5by5 network.
I started listening to Latest in Paleo and the Paleo Solution podcasts and this guy Robb Wolf was sounding pretty damn knowledgable as a biochemist. I had already eliminated sugar but was still trying to watch my fat intake while eating lots of good lean meats.