paleo diet

Keto Cons

A number of years ago I published a book “Losing the last 30 lbs: fundamentals of weight loss.” This is an excerpt from that book about “diets” and why it is that they fail. Hope you enjoy the humor…

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Cauliflower Mashed

A video of my 5 year old and I making cauliflower mashed. This is an easy, delicious, paleo friendly recipe that is fun to make.

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Biotruths: What We Are Meant to Eat

In the future someone will say, “Eat like they did in the 21st century, they lived long and had little disease.” They will argue over McDonald’s. A biotruth is a logical fallacy – in this case applying it to food, about how we are “meant” to eat.

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Obesity and Patients

Weight loss is more than calories in and calories out. Obesity is a disease that we don’t know the answers to. More important – we need to treat obesity with compassion, because it is not the fault of the patient whose metabolism alters their body.

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Identifying Yourself with Your Diet

Tired of people self-identifying by what they eat? Here are several myths about the most common diets from vegans to paleo, to those who want to put everything into a shake or a bar.

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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul

Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.

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Paleolithic Diet: Old Genes to Fit in Jeans

Did our guts evolve in the Paleolithic era so that to avoid modern disease we should eat like a caveman? Does our genetic code have the answer to fit into those slim jeans? Or is this just another low-carb fad diet. Well, there are some good points, and here is the skinny

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