Signal vs. Noise: How to Read a Nutrition Study
A reference post demonstrating MythBox and SignalBox callouts, plus a practical guide for evaluating nutrition research without a PhD.
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Field Notes
22 dispatches on ancestral health, real food, and metabolic clarity.
Field Notes: 90-Day Carnivore Experiment Results
Blood markers, energy levels, body composition, and cognitive performance after 90 days eating only animal foods. Raw data, honest analysis, no agenda.
How the Food Pyramid Got Everything Backwards
The 1992 USDA Food Pyramid wasn't built on nutrition science — it was built on agricultural lobbying. Tracing the money reveals why 'heart-healthy whole grains' became official policy.
Chowing Down On Meat, Dairy Alters Gut Bacteria A Lot, And Quickly
NPR's coverage of a Harvard gut-microbiome study got the science right but muddled the terminology — a media-literacy case study in reading past the headline.
I'm still alive!
A life update after a long gap: still down 100+ pounds despite plateauing, and facing hip replacement surgery from years of pre-paleo weight.
Would that ALL physicians stop one moment and listen...
How one paleo-adopting physician treats hypertension, cholesterol, and diabetes with lifestyle change first — and what that revealed about the author's own medication assumptions.
Update Me: Lots of new resources popping up!
A mid-2012 progress update (115 lbs down) plus a roundup of paleo recipe sites and health resources worth checking out.
Paleo tough to describe? This infographic should help
A quick pointer to Greatist.com's "Ultimate Guide to Eating Paleo" infographic — a fast visual overview of what's in and out on paleo.
The Paleo Declaration of Independence
A video comparing oppressive governments to oppressive food manufacturers, and how the site's own posts on cholesterol, sugar, and saturated fat point at the same food-supply incentives.
What is Paleo? Finally a great concise presentation
A short, sharp video explainer of the Paleo diet's core case, from Paleo Diet News.
Fat Head - the Movie
A recommendation for Tom Naughton's "Fat Head" documentary — a low-carb rebuttal to Super Size Me.
A New Year For A New You
Year-end reflection: 100+ pounds down, a new attitude for 2012, and Merlin Mann's take on how to actually keep a resolution.
Just when you finally get that cholesterol level down...
A Jichi Medical School cohort study of 12,334 adults found higher mortality at the lowest cholesterol levels — and no elevated risk at the high end.
Kids eating cereal for breakfast? Why not Twinkies?
Most cereals marketed to kids have more sugar than a Twinkie — the vitamin fortification doesn't change that.
South Beachers Going Paleo?
South Beach Diet creator Dr. Arthur Agatston went on CBS News promoting gluten-free eating — paleo-adjacent territory, even without saying the word.
Sugary Processed Foods Addictive Like Cocaine
Bloomberg's "Fatty Foods Addictive Like Cocaine" headline blamed the wrong macronutrient — the studies were about sugar, not fat.
Experts Call Low Carb Paleo Unhealthy
U.S. News ranked paleo near the bottom of its "healthy diets" list — a look at what their own numbers actually show once you get past the ranking.
Still Afraid of Saturated Fat?
The 1970s low-fat campaign, four decades of rising obesity and diabetes despite it, and the case — from Gary Taubes' 'Big Fat Lie' to the omega-3/omega-6 ratio — that saturated fat was never the real culprit.
Mobile Nutri-Posting Fun!
A short aside on tracking nutrition and activity via a Windows Phone app called LiveScape, and posting updates from it.
Starting at the Bottom... of the Pyramid
Why paleo treats grains, legumes, and dairy as problematic — starting with wheat: gluten, celiac disease, and wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) lectin.
So What is Paleo?
A movement centered on ancestral health and the Paleolithic diet's evolutionary-biology roots — what's actually on the plate, what's excluded, and why it isn't just a fad diet.
Introduction: How did I get here?
The author's origin story: a 390-to-290-pound weight loss journey that led from the Zone and Atkins diets to paleo, by way of the Latest in Paleo and Paleo Solution podcasts.
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