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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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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
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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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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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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
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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
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Tagged Ancestry Foundation
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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 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
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
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Tagged Michael Rose
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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: 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
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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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The Great Return Part 1 – Getting back our right relationship with Nature – A series
Is the Paleo diet just another fad diet? Is Crossfit just another fad fitness craze? They are not – and you should not dismiss them. They are in fact the early signs of a new revolution in human society, economy … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Experimental Evolution
Tagged Michael Rose, Thesis #2
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Why are we so fat in rural areas – Part 4 – We don’t fit the culture
In this last post of this series, I will explore the downside and the upside of our special tribal Gael and First Nations culture in rural Canada and America. We have seen that there are many physical reasons why those who … Continue reading
Why are we so fat in rural settings? – Part 3 – Our Ancestry!
Prince Edward Island, where I live, has a very high obesity rate. So do many rural parts of America and of cource the rest of Atlantic Canada. We have looked at why there is an physical environmental difference between cities and … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Ancestry, Constraints, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, Plateau, Population, The Plateau, The Science, Theses
Tagged Ancestry, Michael Rose, Thesis 52
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Why are people in rural setting fat – Part 2 – Because our friends are – It’s Social!
For reasons that we are exploring in this series, there are environmental reasons why people who live in rural settings tend to be more overweight than those living in urban settings. But there are social environmental factors as well. And I … Continue reading
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Tagged UFIT
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Why are rural folks fatter than urban – It’s not laziness it is environment – Part 1
Here is the lead in the Guardian – PEI’s paper of record. Obesity rates in Prince Edward Island are among the highest in the country. Overall, about 62 per cent of Canadians weigh more than they should. The obesity rates vary from a … Continue reading
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Tagged Obesity
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Trust – Part of our Biology – Dr Jonathan Shay
“The need for trust, Dr. Shay argues, comes from human prehistory. Without claws, wings or other natural weapons, human ancestors survived by watching one another’s backs. As a result, Dr. Shay argues, the need for trust is part of human … Continue reading
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Tagged Betrayal, Dr Jonathan Shay, Trust
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Your Mind and your Health – Part 4 – Why the Tribe – Community – is the best Environment to help us
In this series we have seen how the power of how we think can affect our health for good or bad. How then can we do the hardest thing of all and change how we think about ourselves and so … Continue reading
Your mind and your health – Part 3 – How do we change deep rooted thoughts/habits?
So how do we change? Is it as simple as knowing what is true? Not for deep change. I can hear you even from here. “But I can’t change my habits” or “Just telling me to think differently is not enough” … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Deutschman, Change, Change or Die, Dr Jonathan Shay, PTSD
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Your Mind and your Health – Part 2 – The Power of Neuroplasticity
This is the conventional picture of the brain – a thing with discrete compartments – a thinking machine. This idea of the brain – which is also how most of us “see” the body and so organize medicine is wrong. … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Complexity, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, Resources, The New Science, The Science, Tuning
Tagged Alan Deutschman, Dr Norman Doidge, Neuroplasticity
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Your Mind & Your Health – Part 1 – Overcoming bad environments
Most of us understand that if we eat better (whatever better means) and if we are more active, our health will improve. But few of us know that if we use our mind “better” that this too will help us … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Marmot, Robert Sapolsky, Viktor Frankl
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How do you get control and power – Riot or take it for yourself?
Lack of power and control and low social status is a major factor in making us ill. So if we cannot change the system, how can we get more power, control and social status? This week we will look at how we might do … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr David Rock, Psychology Today, Viktor Frankl
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Your Baby – Bathtime – What is safe? – Novel Environments
My grand daughter Sophia when she was very little not so long ago. Bath time is the best part of the day for babies and parents. Little did I know what might have been going on. What is in the … Continue reading
Posted in Constraints, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Theses
Tagged Babies, Natural Selection
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