Keeping Paleo While Experiencing Culture

“I decided to veer off Paleo when I was traveling abroad”, one client recently mentioned to me.  “I didn’t want to deprive myself of experiencing the culture by eschewing their food”. Understandable statement, and certainly, we all have the choice to not eat Paleo things if we want.   However, it’s not an all or […]

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Choosing Your Chicken: Organic, Air-Chilled or…Aged?

If you’re buying your chicken based on cost alone, there are many factors that you may be overlooking. First and foremost, cheaper is almost always not best; often the bargain priced poultry has come from a battery-caged producer whose best interest is not in the health or treatment of their birds, let alone the consequences […]

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Look at the Source

As a rule of thumb, that is.   A regular blog reader forwarded me a link to an article in the paper in her hometown that she labeled, ‘Comic relief for the evening’, and yes, it was laughable but not actually so funny. The title of the article was “The Health Benefits of Legumes” and […]

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Is Pork a “Dirty” Meat?

This was an interesting question I came across recently, one that I’d never heard of before.   The premise was ‘if pigs don’t have sweat glands in their skin, then does that mean they’re not excreting toxins, and then aren’t they, therefore, a ‘dirty’ meat to ingest’? True, pigs do not have sweat glands, but […]

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