Paleo, Protein and Going the Distance

I often find blog post subjects from questions or comments I receive via twitter, facebook or emails, so keep them coming along, please! The other day I received a such one comment via Twitter to my post about eating bananas and coconut water during training, or carbohydrate gels. “So no protein for you? Paleo Diet […]

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Vegan & Paleo- Can It Work?

In a word…no. While I’m asked this quite a bit, surprisingly, it just can’t happen, any more than one can be a vegan who eats beef.   Incidentally, even when I was vegan myself, I never quite understood some of the permutations I heard such as  lacto-vegetarian or pesco-vegan.   If you’re vegan, you don’t […]

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Gluten and Your Bones

Interested in developing osteoporosis?  One way to help speed the process is to keep that gluten in your diet, and all grains for that matter. Refer to Dr. Cordain’s latest book, The Paleo Answer, and see for yourself.  In a nutshell, he states: “The phytate (or phytic acid) in all grains (yes, even those that […]

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Coconut Water & Bananas…or Gels?

Nell, I’m confused. I follow you on twitter and sometimes you post about having just coconut water and a banana or yams whilst training, but I’ve also read your posts about using man-made carbohydrate gel when you are racing.  Can you clarify when to eat what?  I’m training for my first 70.3 race. Thanks, Will, […]

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