Gone Paleo

I have not been at this for a while, but thought I would restart posting. One of the things interesting me these days is the Paleo Diet. I've been on it for about a year with increasing "compliance" with the regime. For example, since January I've nearly quit drinking beer. Now, actually, when I do have one, I almost always get some sort of headache the next day. This is very interesting because it is not a hangover from the alcohol - I used to drink 4 - 5 beers and have no issues, and I still drink red wine and have no issues.

Why Paleo?

Well, I started down this path reading Paul Pitchford's "Healing with Whole Foods" and I made a level of progress, such as my blood pressure dropping from "borderline" of 135/85 down to more of 125/75. That was good. So, then I kept reading and researching.

Then I went through the Mercola phase. Yes, that's the Mercola's health news web site. I found some very interesting health articles on that site. Also, as I learned about scientific studies, I learned that Mercola will often criticize some studies for not being randomized control trials, and then turn around and cite studies that fit his point of view that are also not RCTs. So, not a bad source of information, but it pays to click the links and read the references. Just today, one of the studies he cited did not achieve statistically significant results for the point he was making. However, the other references checked out okay.

Okay, enough about Mercola.

So then somewhere along the way I found this great aggregation of articles and books and other references.

Paleo Diet dot com

That's what launched me on the Paleo diet. I started reading the article called Unexpected Facts... the article about the Banting diet, and the article by Gary Taubes called "What if it has all been a big fat lie".

Since then, I've become a huge fan of Taubes, Mark Sisson, the Latest in Paleo podcast, and Chris Kresser.

garytaubes.com

Mark's Daily Apple

latestinpaleo.com

chriskresser.com

For anyone wishing to skip ahead to the part where you just eat the food and don't worry about why, then check out NomNom Paleo

nomnompaleo.com