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At last the sugar debate is going mainstream
Here is an excellent interview that explores the history of sugar consumption and its effect on us. Puts the public health hazard on the table. In particular Fructose is highlighted. The discussion is based on the new article in Nature … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", Diet, Resources, The New Science, The Science
Tagged Dr Raj Patel, Nature, Sugar
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Get your child outside!
We are designed to spend a lot of time outside. I am 61. When I was a kid, I was inside only for class or sleeping. Today few kids spend almost any time outside. Why most don’t have enough Vitamin … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Context, Diet, Environments, Resources, The Science
Tagged Vitamin D
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The Exercise Myth – Strength and Activity
From Chris Highcock’s wonderful short PDF book which you can buy here. Chris’s book opens with the best context for Fitness and its link to health and how we grow old that I have yet seen. This site has talked … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", Activity, Aging, Context, Environments, Physiology, Resources
Tagged Chris Highcock, Crossfit, Hill Fit, Walking
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2011 in review
Thank you dear readers for all your support The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about … Continue reading
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The Complete Context for the Obesity Epidemic
Dr Eenfeldt at the Ancestral Health Symposium in 2011 – A brilliant over view of what happened to make us so fat in only 27 years and what we can do to turn this around. More on his blog here
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Ancestry, Diet, Resources
Tagged Ancestral Health Symposium, Dr Eenfeldt
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Dr Terry Wahls on how she defeated MS and how we can get our health back
If you only see one video – this would be it for me
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Context, Diet, Environments, Resources, The New Science
Tagged Dr Terry Wahls
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Brilliant new interview with Michael Rose on Aging and Health
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Posted in A New Vision, Aging, Context, Plateau, Resources, The New Science, The Plateau, The Science
Tagged Michael Rose
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Family Dinner – the best first step we can take to be healthy and have great kids
For millions of years, we sat around a fire and eat meals and told stories. Laurie David reminds us of the power of this process to get our health back and to restore the health of our families as social … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Ancestry, Diet, Environments
Tagged Laurie David, Marion Foundadtion
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“Cancering” – It’s all about systems not one thing
An exceptional piece that sheds light on the systemic issues related to Cancer. As Michael points out in the 55 is the flaw in how we approach science – reductionism – this video shows how different medicine will be. Dr … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Context, Environments, Physiology, Resources, The New Science, The Science, Theses
Tagged Dr David Agus, Khan Academy, Sal Khan
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Rose offers the scientific context/framework for Ancestral Health
Science is a mess today as is medicine. Every day we hear a new this or that. Many hold very strong beliefs based on what? What was missing was a context for health. This is what Michael has offered us. … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Ancestry, Context, Diet, Forces of Natural Selection, The New Science, Theses
Tagged Rob Wolff
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Michael Rose’s New Scientist Article – Aging can stop
Aging isn’t cumulative process of progressive chemical damage — it can stop By Michael R. Rose, Published: September 6 In 1939, British statisticians Major Greenwood and J.O. Irwin published a little-noticed article in the journal Human Biology that contained a profoundly unexpected … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Aging, The New Science, The Science, Theses
Tagged Michael Rose, New Scientist
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The Link between what we eat and our health
We are what we eat – a great film on this link
Posted in Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty
Tagged Food, Health, We are what we eat
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The Town of Allopath – a parable of the 55
Is Michael the wise man in the forest? Who are you in this story?
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What foods did we evolve to eat?
“Great Apes and the Evolution of Human Diet” by Craig Stanford, PhD from Ancestry on Vimeo. Here is Craig Stanford Director of the Goodall Institute talking about primate diets as a context for what our Paleo diet might have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Craig Stanford
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The Full Lindeberg!
“Food and Western Disease” by Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD from Ancestry on Vimeo. Here are his slides – here is the link to his website. AHS Slides_Staffan Lindeberg View more presentations from Ancestry
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Ancestry, Complexity, Context, Environments, Population, The Science, Theses
Tagged Staffan Lindeberg
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Ancestry Foundation – A great centre of information – Videos from the conference
Earlier this month, the Ancestry Foundation hosted the first of what will be many conferences on Health as seen through the perspective of Evolution. Here is the link to the many excellent videos Here is the link to the slides and here … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Ancestry, Context, Diet, Environments, Forces of Natural Selection, Physiology, Resources, The New Science
Tagged Ancestry Foundation
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Lierre Keith – Michael Rose from the Other side
When you hear a great idea told by very different people – it hits home even harder. Here Lierre Keith demolishes the Vegetarian myth – she was once a Vegan and adds power to Michael’s position.
So when will you lose your health – Part 5 – What to do
As we all worry about the current fiscal situation – this is the time bomb. As so many of us age AND as so many of us who are not that old, get sick from the diseases of Modern Civilization, … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Constraints, Context, Diet, Environments, Population
Tagged Control, Health, Health care Costs, healthspan
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So when will you lose your health – Part 4 – How to get it back – Not from medicine
You are reading this post because you believe in a new understanding of how our health works. You know that you can take charge of your health. So why, if you know this to be true, is it so hard … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Context, Resources, The New Science, The Science, Theses
Tagged Adoption, Crossfit, Health, Paleo, Pioneers
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So when will you lose your health? – Part 3 – When you don’t know this
Every day we read of a new study that says “This is bad for you” and “This is good for you”. No wonder when it comes to taking control of our health, we are confused by science. I read a … Continue reading
So when will you lose your health – Part 2 – When you live in the wrong environment
You get ill when you look like this – this is how I looked aged 59 – I weighed 205 lbs. How I look here has all the signs that you have not lived your life according to the rules. … Continue reading
So when will you lose your Health? Part 1 – The Healthspan
This is an image that is all about Lifespan. Until the late 1800’s and the discovery of how infection really worked, this was what we all feared. Your child could be well in the morning and dead that night. … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Context
Tagged healthspan, The Missing Human Manual
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The Great Return – Part 5 – Why Food is the way home
I have been trying to see how #Paleo is more than a diet. Taking control of our health will in the end be about changing how we live. For our system today not only restricts our diet to shit but … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Context, Environments, Forces of Natural Selection, Population
Tagged Food, Health, Systems
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Michael Rose – Saved my life
Here I am in August 2009 – pre diabetic – a typical middle aged man. I thought that this was my destiny – that all men of my age had to be like this. But after talking with Michael Rose … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Context, Diet, Environments, Plateau
Tagged Michael Rose
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Bill Maher Speaks the Truth about Health
Sad it takes a comic
Posted in A New Vision, Resources
Tagged Bill Maher
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The Great Return – Part 4 – The Inquisition and why it always fails
First they ignore you – then they laugh at you – then they fight you – then you win. Today I am going to explore how we are about to experience all of this as we see the power of … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Complexity, Constraints, Context, Environments
Tagged Paradigm Change, Revolution
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Why did we stray so far from our Evolutionary Best Fit?
I think this quote is the best answer I can find:Â Consider the feature common to all of the above: we have chosen comfort and short-term convenience over the option presented to us by our genome and the Pleistocene environment … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Aging, Complexity, Constraints, Context, Diet, Environments
Tagged Stephen Boyden
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The Great Return – Part 3 – The Rules of the New World#2 – A Vision
This post is written in July of 2011 – The Murdoch New Empire, the Police in the UK and the Tories in the UK are being rocked. I think that we are living through a period where the Network is destroying the … Continue reading
The Great Return – Part 2 – The “Industrial Clearances” and what they mean to us
Are all of us, who are today unemployed or under employed or never to be employed, failures and misfits? I think that most of us think that we are in some way bad people. I think that, even as we … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Resources
Tagged The New Economy, The New Hunter Gatherer Economy
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