Living The Low Carb Lifestyle
Christopher Ramsden specializes in excavating lost studies. In an excavation made possible by the sons of deceased scientist Ivan Frantz (principal investigator alongside Ancel Keys on the Minnesota Coronary Experiment) and technicians, who turned magnetic tape into formats readable with modern technology, raw data was unearthed from a 40-year-old study which found a shocking result, the …
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Arthur Haines has been helping people explore human ecology for over 20 years developing an awareness of nature, health, and self-reliance. Wild food is his passion according to his website http://www.arthurhaines.com/ He believes that humans are at a critically important point in history, where conversion of the remaining wild lands to intensively managed landscapes and …
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Psychiatrist Dr. Ann Childers discusses how our modern diet does not fit our ancient bodies. In this lecture she discusses the discrepancy between the Stone Age body and the Space Age diet that we've been forced to eat and conclude that it is causing substantial mental ill-health.Topics also covered are fermentable carbohydrates, tooth decay and …
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Despite critics of the Paleo Diet one thing is certain, removal of processed food can only be a good thing. There are critics out there that claim the diet can result in calcium and fibre deficiency due to the elimination of dairy and ‘healthy’ whole grains and question, just how can it be proven that …
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The New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and Brain Wash offers some fascinating insights and advice on reducing high uric acid levels. Obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, fatty liver disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, neurological disorders, and premature death could all be stoked by high uric acid levels. The respected scientific literature is bursting with evidence that elevated uric …
Research reveals that the nutrient content in our food has been decreasing in the last hundred years or so. In a study published in 2004 they looked at forty-three different common crops and how the nutritional value had declined between 1950 and 1999. What they discovered was that the protein content of the plants had …
The human race is eating itself into metabolic disarray, what is sometimes termed "the plagues of prosperity." Benjamin Bikman suggests ways one might mitigate insulin resistance—the core of many modern health challenges. I have viewed countless lectures on the subject of diabetes but this is one of the most clear and concise presentations on metabolic …
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Dr. Robert Lustig, whose 2009 lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" which has received over 13 million views so far, has always been passionately vocal about his opinion of the processed food industry.He has released two previous books, "Fat Chance" and "The Hacking of the American Mind." But in this book, he breaks things down into …
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Zoe Harcombe researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health deconstructs and destroys the UK governments Eat Well Guide with precision analysis, discusses the three flaws of epidemiology and exposes the five food giants: Institute of Grocery Distribution, British Nutrition Foundation, British Retail Consortium, Food & Drink Federation and the …
When a mother is sent a note from her child's school complaining that she had omitted to include 'healthy' whole grains in the pupils lunchbox (which contained boiled eggs, cheese and carrot sticks), then it's time to seriously question our nutritional guidelines. The ever vocal Dr. Zoë Harcombe imparts a bucketful of knowledge in this …
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