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Not that something as wonderful as coconut oil needs to be blessed, but Loren Cordain and Pedro Bastos from The Paleo Diet have said the following about coconut oil:

"My feeling is that coconut oil in the backdrop of a modern day Paleo Diet probably has few negative health implications." - Loren Cordain

"I believe coconut oil in the context of a 90% Paleo Diet (+ sun exposure + adequate sleep + regular exercise) may be neutral or even positive." - Pedro Bastos

The Vitamin D Council has a post up analyzing interaction between Vitamin A and Vitamin D in the body. To quote, "the benefits of vitamin D are almost entirely negated in those with the highest vitamin A intake". Tough to consider this a completely objective article, but food for thought. Read more here.
Related reading:
Are Some People Pushing Their Vitamin D Levels Too High?
"Vitamins A, D and K: Who Cares?"

Agave nectar is made in a process similar to how high fructose corn syrup is derived from corn. Read more about this new age 'natural' sweetener here.

"A significant decrease in psychiatric symptoms was found at 3 months on a gluten-free diet compared to patients' baseline condition."

Where do the suspicious pesticides ("organophosphates") enter the diet? It is applied to "corn, wheat, and soy through a product called Lorsban". Solution: Eat organic.

Read the clear results on PubMed.

Studies are finding cholesterol-lowering drugs aren't working and require a closer look.

Conditioning Research links to a study finding that "only 30 min of eccentric exercise per week for eight weeks was sufficient to improve health risk factors". Consider that support for high intensity interval training (a la CrossFit). Read the blog post.

There are two studies that point towards low cholesterol as a cardiac risk factor (and at least indicate that lowering cholesterol levels to within recommended guidelines does not decrease cardiac risk).

Harvard Professor Frank Hu, "the world's leading expert on nutrition and diabetes", gave a talk (with slides) refuting the lipid hypothesis and implicating carbs as the cause of metabolic syndrome.

This study from Academic Medical Center (Netherlands) tests the "HDL hypothesis"; that is, there is "evidence of an inverse association between plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentrations and the risk of cardiovascular disease."

Jimmy Moore has an article on the Examiner discussing trans fats (hint: they are not all bad!): These are the healthy kind of trans fats you want to be consuming.

In 1999, Gary Taubes wrote an in-depth article, "The (Political) Science of Salt", that reveals a "lipid hypothesis"-like mischaracterization of salt as a serious culprit of high blood pressure. Definitely worth a read.

Journalist CJ Hunt has been working on a documentary entitled "In Search of the Perfect Human Diet". Let's hope this film gets some good attention!

From the blog of Dr. Briffa: Despite repeated calls for us to be more active in order to counter rising rates of overweight and obesity, the evidence suggests that activity has, generally speaking, very modest effects on body weight.

The first, from Penn State University:
A Macadamia Nut-Rich Diet Reduces Total and LDL-Cholesterol in Mildly Hypercholesterolemic Men and Women
The second, from the University of Hawaii:
Serum Lipid Effects of a High–Monounsaturated Fat Diet Based on Macadamia Nuts

"Available Carbohydrates, Glycemic Load, and Pancreatic Cancer: Is There a Link?"
"Dietary glycemic load and risk of colorectal cancer in the Women's Health Study."
"Soft Drink and Juice Consumption and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer."

Primal Wisdom has an extensive post examining some of the fallacious claims about life expectancy in hunter-gatherers.

The Healthy Skeptic has a well-cited post on oils, omega-6s, omega-3s, and their effect on health. Read it here.
A follow up post is worth reading when you finish the first: How much omega-3 is enough?

The Heart Scan blog examines the different glucose units found in wheat, calling amylopectin-A a "super-carbohydrate" due to its high digestibility into blood sugar.

Modern Paleo examines the effects of fasted training on cortisol levels.

The Heart Scan blog covers the original wheat grains emmer and einkorn, and how 25,000 varieties of (genetically modified) wheat of been introduced in the last 30 years.

A study from the UK finds that statins increases the risk "of moderate or serious liver dysfunction, acute renal failure, moderate or serious myopathy, and cataract."

A Chinese study found correlation between niacin consumption (via fortified foods) and obesity. Correlation, not causation, but interesting nonetheless.

Nuts are a welcome member of the paleo food pyramid. Make sure you minimize phytic acid consumption by properly treating nuts and seeds. Here's how:
A Hidden Danger with Nuts, Grains, Beans and Seeds