Still Drinking Milk as a Calcium Source?

An article in yesterday’s Times certainly doesn’t help the matter! While I agree wholeheartedly with the principle of getting all our minerals and vitamins from food, rather than pills, I’m vehemently opposed to the idea of suggesting that dairy is a good option for getting one’s calcium. Despite many of the new interpretations of Paleo […]

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The “Paleo Fantasy” Book

Evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk has a new book,  Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live. She feels the Paleo diet is a fantasy,  rooted in evolutionary myths, and a mere ‘popular trend’ at the moment. She goes on to state, “Trying to emulate what people ate 10,000 or 100,000 years […]

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Facing Your Paleo Fears

A recent article on Primitive Movement has got me thinking.   Entitled ‘Fear is in the Head‘, the author does a great job at a succinct overview of what happens in our head when we are in fear of something and how we can utilize that very fear itself into something very productive. All of […]

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Dogs Eating Carbs

A reader recently sent me a link to an article written about “Why Dogs Can Eat Carbs” and asked my opinion on it. As the mom to Paleo dog children (OK, make that singular; even though it’s nearly been two months since we lost Graham, I still find it hard to say we have one […]

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