Why Am I Feeling Ill? I Only Ate Paleo Foods!

Dear Nell, I LOVE how I feel eating Paleo!  I am learning how to eat out, too.  I am wondering, though, why I feel sick after a meal that I had last night at a really nice steak house nearby.  I asked for the sauce on the side, and didn't even it eat.  I also […]

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Chronic Cardio & Paleo

There’s a school of thought that opposes the idea of racing Ironman or engaging in long bouts of cardiovascular activity, and some who feel any cardiovascular activity is contraindicated, too. “Chronic cardio”, a relatively new term, refers to long, steady state training at >75% of max heart rate. Marathoning, ultra running, and ironman triathlon racing are […]

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“TOP FIVE FOODS” to Ease PMS? Doubtful…

A regular blog reader & client sent me a link to an e-newsletter she'd received from her OBGYN, with the feature of this month being 'The Top Five Foods' to help ease PMS Symptoms. According to her doc, who writes the newsletter, they are: Yogurt suggested to help alleviate the bloating symptom (um, isn't the […]

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Meat & Leaves

Meat & leaves.  This is what I like to eat.  Can you make it any simpler? ANY grass-fed, organic, humanely-raised or wild meat (or wild fish, or free range poulty, for that matter) and ANY organic leaves make a perfect meal as far as I'm concerned.   Don't overthink "How many grams of protein do […]

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Tomorrow’s October 1st, and the BIG RACE is ONE WEEK AWAY

En route to Kona tomorrow; Ironman World Championships are a mere week away!    It's always an honor to race there, on the very ground where triathlon all started (well, almost; the original Ironman races were in Honolulu, but still…). I'll be blogging and twittering throughout the week, but would like to you invite you to […]

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EAT FAT…I’m Not Kidding

I was thrilled to see and article in Wednesday's NY TIMES about eating chicken skin. Before you send your comments in about the skin being 'fattening' or high in HCA's read on. (I've done a post on these both, before;  if you're concered with heterocyclic amine content in the chicken skin, you can significantly lower […]

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