Popular weaning practices include feeding babies first foods of white rice cereal flakes, introducing soft foods or pureed jars of baby fruits and vegetables, and holding off on feeding meat for the first nine months of baby’s life. Paleo parents, however, often find that style of weaning to be less than ideal. Believing that babies…
One of the major critiques of the Paleolithic diet, founded on the hunter-gatherer diet of our ancient Stone Age ancestors, is that cavemen lived short, brutal lives. People often believe that a short lifespan in the Paleolithic period was due to poor diet and poor health. Loren Cordain, one of the top researchers of the…
Because many Paleo dieters are in it for its health benefits, discourse on supplementation comes up often. And it can be somewhat divisive. Most dieters believe that following a paleo diet without supplements gives you the nutrients your body needs. But some argue that supplementing can augment the healthfulness of your lifestyle dramatically. The main…
Fasting has recently been in the spotlight due to diet crazes and longevity-seekers engaging in severe calorie restriction for long periods of time. Citing longer lives in fasting lab rats, these dieters argue that any healthy lifestyle will include some fasting. While intermittent fasting is encouraged by paleo front-runners, it does require some special considerations….
In today’s America, it is commonly thought that fat, especially saturated fats, are bad for health and can increase risk for serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, food companies that began marketing foods as low fat and low cholesterol to attract a new, low-fat…