Guest contributor to www.thinkbig.com, Patrick Riley, just sent in an insightful analysis of the happenings at this weeks Ancestral Health Symposium in Los Angeles. He writes of the attendees:
“its practitioners aren’t in it just for the grass-fed steak. They see it as a way to fix the planet, to make up for the processed food and the factory farming that has been our gift to the world along with pop culture and Levis.”
The Cancer Research medical journal has found that a low carbohydrate, high protein diet slows tumor growth and prevents cancer from starting.
Scientists from the BC Cancer Research Center in Canada gave one group of mice a traditional western diet that is typically high in carbohydrates and low in protein and the other group of mice a diet that was low in carbs and high in protein.
They found that animal tumors grew quicker on a western high carbohydrate diet. Additionally, those on the low carb, high protein diet had lower blood glucose, insulin and lactate levels. Continue reading
U.S. News and World Report, a weekly news magazine with a penchant for ranking things, did not think much of the Paleo or “Caveman diet.” It ranked the Paleo diet dead last.
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But in the two weeks since U.S. News issued its “Best Diets” report, a funny thing has happened. More people — far more people — have gone online to say caveman-style eating worked better for them than any of the other diets they’d tried. Continue reading
Currently, gluten-related claims on foods and other products vary so dramatically it’s no wonder shoppers (and retailers) are confused.
A new certified gluten free seal and protocol, the result of a partnership between QAI and the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, provides another step toward consumer confidence in gluten-free foods and products. Continue reading
