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This New Year, Commit to Five Minutes a Day

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Why I’m Not a Big Fan Of New Year’s Resolutions Come January first, many people will be making all sorts of resolutions to be kinder, nobler, healthier, more moral people.  Come February first, almost half of those resolutions will already be broken. I know you all have probably seen those statistics about how almost no … Read more

Snacking, Part 1: Why You Don’t Need to Snack

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Keeping the Fire Going Conventional wisdom says that snacking is good, or at least ok, provided the snack foods themselves are healthy.  The American Heart Association, of all people, says that “If snacking is done in moderation with smart choices, it can fit easily into a healthy dietary pattern.” (Some of their examples of “healthy” … Read more

Are Carbs Bad?

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The Ancestral Paradigm Many whole-food diets are based on the paradigm of ancestral health – we should eat as our ancient, prehistoric ancestors ate.  This criteria has been explicitly invoked by Paleo and Primal diet enthusiasts, and at least implicitly invoked by followers of low-carb, Atkins, keto, and carnivore diets (as well as promoters of … Read more

Eating Meat Cheaply

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Eating Meat when Times are Tight If you are eating an ancestral diet – whether that be Paleo, Primal, a Paul Saladino “animal-based” meat and fruit diet, keto, or certainly carnivore, you are probably eating a lot of meat.  Of course, there are more vegetarian-leaning versions of keto and paleo, which I would be happy … Read more

My Pemmican Experiment

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What is Pemmican? In the realm of cooking adventures, I recently tried making pemmican for the first time.  While there are a few things which did not go as intended, I overall am definitely pleased with the results, and plan on making it again and working out the last few kinks. Historically, pemmican was the … Read more

Common Misconceptions About a Primal Diet

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An Ancestral Approach to Food The basic gist of ancestral ways of eating – be they Paleo, Primal, keto, or carnivore –  is that we should, at least as far as possible, eat in the same way as our ancient ancestors.  There is a lot of intuitive sense to this, but a lot of people … Read more

What is Health Coaching?

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What is a health coach?  Perhaps it would be easier to start out by saying what a health coach is not: A health coach essentially differs from all these health professionals because they all stand in a position of authority over the patient; they are the “expert” who we are supposed to listen to and … Read more