Why Beginners Can Benefit from Snacks As I explained in part 1, it is optimal, from a health perspective, to eventually ditch the snacking habit. Having said that, if you are totally new to primal, paleo, low-carb, keto, or carnivore eating, and you are currently a chronic snacker, I would actually encourage you to plan … Read more
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
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
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 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
We All Want to be Healthy… We all want to be healthy, but it seems that everybody has a different idea about the “right” way to get there. There are government guidelines about what to eat, but they seem to always be changing (food groups, food pyramid, MyPlate… what will be next?). People rave about … Read more