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

Old Spice

 

Artillery Boys of My Para-Training.

I haven’t had a chance to write lately since I’ve been away doing some military training.  It was a course that started with 51 members and ended with 42 graduating.  Not a bad result due to the fact that all members on this course were physically fit.  Although all members were fit and physically active, I ended up with the nickname ‘Old Spice‘.

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?

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open for debate, thus giving the option of proving any data incorrect or if new data surfaces, leaving my compiled data no longer valid.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