This years Top 10 Viewed Posts

Before ChristianJax.ca turfs (resets) this years stats for readers most viewed posts and surfs into the new year, here is a list of 2012 most viewed posts:

1. The Paleo Food Pyramid
2. Hollywood on Paleo
3. How to Make Your Coffee Bulletproof…
4. Ultimate Paleo Pad Thai
5. How to be a Nutritarian!
6. Honey, I have something for you to read…
7. Ontario’s Grass-Fed Beef
8. What is the Paleo Diet?
9. Schneider Country Naturals Wieners are gluten free « Gluten Free Ottawa
10. Robb Wolf on Paleo

I hope you get a chance to browse through this top 10 list and when I get a chance I will post the recipe for our Surf and Turf we had for our New Years Eve Dinner.

See you all in the New Year!!!

Christian

Why you got fat and what to do about it?

This is one of my favourite articles, which is where I found the video above:

Q: Fine, but you still haven’t given me any reason to avoid grains and legumes other than their high carbohydrate content. Do you hate on grains and legumes just because they make you fat?

Big Fat Head

This is an excellent video to watch, things that make you go hmmmm…

Robb Wolf on Paleo

Here’s an excellent video from the author of ‘The Paleo Solution‘ Robb Wolf:

Continue reading Robb Wolf on Paleo

The Argument Against Cereal Grains

Barley (Photo credit: freefotouk)

I’ve been meaning to write a post on how gluten grains are a suboptimal source of nutrition in other than small amounts.   However, due to a busy schedule I thought I would at least repost one of Dr. Kurt Harris’s online papers with respect to this subject: 

“Cereal grains are seeds of monocot grasses that have been artificially selected by humans to serve as food. The ones that cause the most trouble, and constitute the biggest part of European and North American diets, are the gluten grains Wheat, Barley and Rye.

How to be a Nutritarian!

Nutritarians By Crys

In the world of Paleo 2.0, the belief is that a whole food diet which includes adequate micronutrients is the best way to eat healthy.  This means you should consider having nutrient rich foods as your staple, yes be a Nutritarian!  This doesn’t mean you should ignore your intake of healthy fats, that definitely wouldn’t be Pale 2.0, where even obtaining a substantial fraction of nutrition from animal sources is necessary for health. Continue reading How to be a Nutritarian!

Paleo Flowchart

I got a nice chuckle when I saw this flowchart on cavemanforum.com, so I thought I’d post the version that was linked from one of the replies to this thread:

Boloney Detection Kit

As I’m constantly tying to keep my arguments within scientific reasoning, I’ve decided to restrict my research within tighter set of rules by following the baloney detection kit. Does the data make the CUT or is it BOLONEY? The boloney detection kit from Michael Shermer shall be used in my conclusions from hence forth:

Link to: The Carl Sagan Portal

Fair comparisons but I’ll revisit this in greater detail at a later date…

Paleo 2.0

The goal of this website isn’t to preach, but to raise discussions on what’s nutritionally good for your health – does it make the CUT or not? I also leave each post open for debate, thus giving the option of proving any data incorrect or if new data surfaces, leaving my compiled data no longer valid.

A perfect example is the article linked at the bottom of this post by Medical Doctor Kurt Harris who had this to say:

So “paleolithic nutrition” seemed like good shorthand for what we should be eating to avoid the diseases that came with civilization – the DOCs.

The problem came when I started to read what others before me were characterizing as key features of the “paleolithic diet”.

Some of these ideas -like avoiding eating wheat and other gluten grains – struck me as reasonable, but some were weakly supported, some were just silly, and some of them directly contradicted what I felt to be the most scientifically sound arguments.

Hominin ancestors ate only lean meats and little saturated fat

A paleolithic diet is characterized by plenty of cultivated nuts