Zach Wahl's mom cures MS with paleo
I noticed that Zach Wahl's testimony on marriage equality had gone viral on Facebook. In his speech, he mentions his mother's struggle with multiple sclerosis. How is she doing? Apparently, she's gone...
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Stop Mummy Abuse
It's bad enough that I'm deadIt's unfortunate that well-meaning health bloggers and personalities have joined grave robbers around the world in misusing mummies, particularly since there aren't a lot...
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Why Paleo didn't fix my IBS
Now that it's been over four years since I first heard about "paleo" diets, I have been reflecting on how such diets have worked for me. When I first heard about paleo, I definitely thought it was a...
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Food Truck Symposium in Chicago and a Paleo Food Truck
Just last week a guy named Joe contacted me on Facebook to tell me about his Kickstarter project- a paleo food cart! I didn't get around to blogging about it until today and in the meantime it was...
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If you've been reading this blog long enough, you'll know I have a rather dim view of reporters. Besides a tiny number I count as friends, I've had some bad experiences where I spent a lot of time...
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Troll Files: Ingredients in "paleo" bars
A week or so ago I got an email advertising a new "paleo" product. I've written several times about various products parasitically riding the "paleo" bandwagon. Most of them suck. We are about to...
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Top 1 Reasons I'm Not Paleo
Cheeseslave wrote a post titled Top 10 Reasons I'm Not Paleo. Not surprisingly, it upset a lot of people. Which is funny, since it didn't exactly bother me. I'd love to see that furor directed against...
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Evolution is True, Evolution is Important
I want to explore the evolution of the evolutionary nutrition concept and how evolution was lost from it.An early variant, The Stone Age Diet, by Walter L. Voegtlin, shows up in the record in 1975,...
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The Paleo-Political Continuum
Recently a friend sent me this piece on the "paleo" diet and libertarianism in The New Inquiry, which quotes me. It is well-written and thought-provoking, even worth reading if you probably disagree...
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Breaking Up with Paleo
I occasionally get emails and tweets admonishing me for being hostile to paleo and low-carb, having moved on and having to take a glancing blow behind me. It’s not an unfamiliar experience– I received...
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Paleo Fantasies: Debunking The Carnivore Ape Narrative
Every two years or so I notice a cyclical trend in the online “paleo” community. It’s the resurgence of dogmatic carnivory. It has two main themes: plants are “poisons” that cause most of our health...
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Invisible Women of Paleo
I'm thrilled that Grub Street shut down its entire Chicago department so that instead of writing about Chicago’s vibrant food scene, they can publish garbage like this: The Rise of the Lady Paleos:...
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Paleofantasy
Author: Marlene ZukPic: Buy: PaleofantasyThough much maligned in the paleo diet community, this is a book you should give a chance. A great primer on evolutionary biology and a caution against making...
View ArticlePaleodrama: Why I stopped posting on my blog highlighting pseudoscience and...
I occasionally get comments here with the insinuation that I stopped posting on paleodrama because I "lost" or realized "boys will be boys." I didn't stop posting, though I rarely post there now. For...
View ArticleAfter The Paleo Diet: The Good And Bad Of It
Sometimes I think about deleting this blog. After all, I started it to talk about "paleo," a diet I no longer follow. Largely I eat what I want now. I eat a lot at restaurants and when I'm not I eat a...
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