Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at
6:00 pm
The embrace (some might say exaltation) of butter is, in some respects, what sets the Primal eating plan apart from strict paleo. It is essentially pure animal fat with only minor traces of dairy proteins and sugars remaining, and for that reason I consider it a worthwhile staple. But, to answer the question posed in the title, not all butter is created equal. Most of us are in agreement that the nutritional content of the animal’s flesh depends on the content of its diet, and the same goes for butter.
We’ve covered similar ground with
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at
4:15 pm
The hangover is an interesting beast. Like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and any other huge, hirsute crypto-hominid, nearly every culture and every nation has an extensive literature (whether it’s entombed in writing or not) on the subject of hangovers. After all, alcohol is the universal intoxicant, and hangovers are the inevitable consequence of overindulgence.
Or are they?
Mike, a reader, recently wrote to me with the tale of the missing hangover:
I have been following the Primal Blueprint for over 2 months now. My diet, fitness, etc — has been very strict with one exception — The occasional
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at
3:38 pm
People who have trained in the gym for years often look at something like the simple push up as a beginner's exercise. I mean, why would they want to perform push ups when they can get a "real" chest workout with heavy sets of bench presses. This is a big mistake, and one that I have been guilty of. It is easy to look at the simple push up as working the exact same muscles as the bench press, but with less resistance. I would like to talk about why you should include the push
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at
12:10 am
Does you metabolism slow down when you diet…
Well…yes.
But it’s not what you think.
You see part of the myth of metabolism and obesity is that obese people have slow metabolisms.
The truth is, obese people generally have higher metabolic rates then lean people.
(Someone once asked me how many people in America had a high metabolism, my answer was ‘probably half of them’)
So the ‘lowering’ of metabolism is just your metabolism returning to where it should be.
And again we are talking about 100 Calories give or take.
Roughly the amount of
