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Top 5 Reasons You are Not Losing weight on the Paleo Diet

October 10, 2016

Weight loss is a common goal for many people that transition to a Paleo lifestyle. Although the Paleo community is bursting with testimonials of those who have successfully shed pounds in exchange for a new physique, there are perhaps just as many for whom the scale refuses to budge. If you are following a Paleo diet but have yet to reach your goal weight, consider the following 5 reasons you are not losing weight on the Paleo Diet or experiencing a weight loss plateau: 1) You Are Eating Too...

Top 12 Paleo Cold and Flu Remedies

September 17, 2016

A nutrient-dense, Paleo Diet can go a long way in helping to boost your immune system and prevent you from getting a cold or flu. But sometimes, no matter how squeaky-clean your diet is, you may find that you have succumbed to the latest virus that is making its rounds in your community. If you do find yourself under the weather during this cold and flu season, these top 12 Paleo cold and flu remedies can help you to recover faster while maintaining an all-natural approach. 1) Sleep &...

Interview With Cassy Burnside: Fatco Skincare

September 14, 2016

Ever since I was a young boy, I was well known for being a dirty kid. As a toddler, I rarely complained of dirty diapers. Growing up, I was not above stomping in puddles, rolling around in the mud, or returning home smelling like I just crawled out of a swamp. Basically, there was no amount of scrubbing or soaping that could ever truly keep me clean. While keeping clean was a big deal (to other people around me, not so much myself) in my youth, keeping healthy skin was not. Turns out, all...

Interview With Jeff Worn: South Georgia Pecan Company

September 12, 2016

I remember being a young, physically active teenager and religiously raiding the pantry for peanut butter. I'd literally eat it straight out of the container with a spoon. I must've devoured my weight in peanut butter every month, easily. As the Paleo community can guess, eating copious amounts of unclean peanut butter eventually took its toll. Even today, I look at peanut butter and my stomach twists, even though my taste buds are still all for chowing down. Thankfully, my days of returning...

Interview With Lauren Feingold and Ashanty Williams of Shanti Bar

September 12, 2016

When I hear the phrase 'superfood,' I immediately conjure up an image of an ancient, Herculean god of cooking, slowly stirring a forgotten recipe not meant for mortals in a truck-sized cauldron. Turns out, superfoods aren't just for the mythological, they are excellent for mere mortals as well. While any Asgardian can boast of their superhuman power, Lauren Feingold and Ashanty Williams created the Shanti Bar for us mortals, a high protein, raw superfood snack that gives you the power to rival...

Drunken Monkey History of Man: NSFW Proof Alcohol Is Paleo

September 6, 2016

Conventional wisdom and some forms of Paleo Diet puritanism often suggest that human consumption of alcohol began around 10,000 B.C. after the Neolithic Revolution when humans first began to harvest grains to produce it. However, this popular (and perhaps idealistically regurgitated) narrative may be completely legless. According to Wikipedia, the aptly named ‘Drunken Monkey Hypothesis’ was a proposition that "human ethanol metabolism may derive from the dependence of the primate ancestors of...

Anti-Meat Narrative is going to get us all killed.

August 29, 2016

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t has long been suggested that to save the world from climate change, famine, and global destruction, that the world over must reduce its meat consumption and instead adopt a Vegan diet, favoring the use of cereal crops for calories and protein. Although anti-meat Veganism represents a better alternative to Industrial Animal Production Model regarding sustainability, the suggestion to reduce meat consumption in favor of cereal crops isn't the best long-term solution for the...

Orthorexia is Bullshit. Or is it?

August 25, 2016

Many from within the Paleo Community and other communities as well have declared that the entire concept of Orthorexia is Bullshit, even though it is clear that it is a rising term amongst eating disorder practitioners. It's time to critically examine our beliefs around the eating disorder. Though Orthorexia Nervosa is considered a serious medical condition, media outlets have used the disorder to erroneously label adherents of restrictive diets —particularly Paleo Dieters and Vegans— for the...

10 Tips for Healing Leaky Gut

August 23, 2016

“10 Tips for Healing Leaky Gut” begins with understanding what leaky gut syndrome is and why it matters. The condition involves damage to the intestinal lining that increases permeability of the gut barrier, one of the immune system’s primary defenses against pathogens, toxins, and dietary antigens entering via food and drink. Under healthy conditions, intestinal epithelial cells are tightly apposed and connected by tight junctions that restrict the passage of unwanted substances into the...

The Role of Gut Flora in Health

August 1, 2016

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll disease begins in the gut." - Hippocrates. Over 2,400 years after the father of modern medicine made this claim, we are now re-discovering the role of gut flora, and just how true that statement was. The digestive tract is home to 100 trillion microorganisms, known as the gut flora. The majority of these microorganisms are bacteria, with a small percentage consisting of fungi and protozoa. The functions of the gut flora are complex enough to resemble those of an organ,...