Today will be the end of 30 days on the Paleo Diet, and tomorrow I’ll attempt the dreaded ‘re-integration’ of grain products. Here’s how it went this month. Weight loss Losing weight is so easy on this diet that I actually managed it without trying. I don’t know how much I lost exactly, I’d say [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2010
This is a guest post by Olivia Coleman Psychology students know that with the start of each new semester, the level of coursework progressively intensifies. While certain students may struggle and experience difficulty doing well on exams and papers, it’s not that they lack the ability to do well, it’s that they lack good study-skills, [ Read More ]
Categories: Study Skills
Here’s an average day’s meals: Breakfast: 2 pieces of fruit, some nuts Lunch: Omelette 3 eggs with vegetables, tomato, mushroom, or onion. Dinner: Stew (lots of veg, maybe sweet potato on a workout day, boiled up with beef), or curry (lots of veg with chicken and coconut milk and some spices) That’s pretty much it. [ Read More ]
Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
Ideally, I’d have gotten the relevant blood work done before and after this experiment, but for now I’ll just have to go with subjective interpretation. Also unfortunately, I haven’t been as strict as I should be with cutting back on alcohol. I usually have a glass per day, and a few more on weekends. The [ Read More ]
Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
My advice? Don’t bother! It’s too difficult to explain. ”The human genome evolves at a rate far slower than cultural evolution, including the introduction of different food products and processing methods. Many of the foodstuffs we have today did not exist in the era that our bodies were evolved to inhabit, and although some adaptation [ Read More ]
Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
I’ve been ‘on’ the Paleo diet for nearly two weeks now. However, it has not been 100% strict adherence. The more I read about the diet, the more I realise I’ve been eating stuff I’m not supposed to. I have cut out completely: Grains Beans However I have slipped up on the following: Dairy (milk [ Read More ]
Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
After reading this guest post by Robb Wolf at Tim Ferriss’s site, I decided to give the Paleo diet a go for a month. Well actually it’ll be two weeks for definite, and hopefully the last two weeks of the month too. The Paleo diet revolves around the premise that our Paleolithic ancestors were far [ Read More ]
Categories: Experiments, Self-Help
Did you know about the Carnival of Evolution? It’s the same concept as the psychology articles carnival I used to run here. I had to stop that due to too few quality submissions and too much spam – it was taking to long to pull the few good submissions from the crap. Anyway the …
Categories: News / Misc
