PaleoLife

This little article talks about research showing how your stomach can control your behavior, telling you to eat "comfort food" to make you happy. The key ingredient in comfort food: Fat.

Old news, but worth sharing: Mercury has been found in both corn syrup in high fructose corn syrup.

From Discovery News:

Perhaps hunger, fullness and how the body absorbs and metabolizes nutrients in food matters more than we think.

Another paradox?

But for participants who regularly ate whole-fat dairy products and nuts, both rich in calories, there was still an added benefit. Why?

A nice summary of studies from Kurt Harris on marathon runners.

There is a Nightline Video which has interviews talking about the Paleo Lifestyle as well as showcasing CrossFit. I have posted the video in the "Press" Section of my website at: www.paleopeople.com It's great to see Paleo is becoming more & more main stream.

The Healthy Skeptic raises an important point in analyzing whether or not dosing on fish oil is such a good thing. After all, n-3 PUFAs are highly oxidizable, and if you are already eating a clean diet, does fish oil cause more harm than good?

A new study has found that diet can play a role in ADHD.

[The study found that] nearly two-thirds of children who followed a restricted, elimination diet as having a significant reduction in ADHD symptoms and oppositional defiant behavior.

The diet itself:

The five-week diet from the Impact of Nutrition on Children with ADHD (INCA) study was restricted to rice, meat, vegetables, pears and water.

Looks like the newest Federal Guidelines for a healthy diet are out, and they tell us to limit salt, saturated fat, and portion size. Yawn!

Mark's Daily Apple covers two recent studies telling us that strength training is good for your brain, while overtraining impedes cognitive ability.

The Economist covers a study comparing gut bacteria in European children to that of African children. The sugary diets of European children promote less healthy guy bacteria. Not surprising, but interesting nonetheless.

US News shares an interesting study:

...scientists tracked the level of a chemical associated with cancer—one polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—in 12 smokers and found it began damaging their DNA within 15 to 30 minutes of finishing a cigarette.

Inhuman Experiment has a nice post on what happens when you eat only meat for a year. Spoiler: Nothing bad (quite the opposite).

Both men ate about 800 grams of meat per day in 3-4 meals. The protein contents ranged from 100 to 140 grams, the fat from 200 to 300 grams, and carbohydrates from 7 to 12 grams.

Nature.com has an article revealing that our ancestors were eating meat at least 3.4 million years ago:

Slashed animal bones suggest early hominins were chopping up predator kills earlier than we thought.

"Is it possible that evolution of the mammary gland reveals benefits to saturated fatty acids that current recommendations do not consider?"

The entertaining blog ArtOfManliness.com has a post on increasing testosterone. This is being shared on paleolife because many of the recommendations align with a paleo diet, including: cut the soy, eat fat, and lift heavy things. Hooray!

Tim Ferriss, of "Four Hour Work Week" fame, has a post up containing containing a big excerpt from Robb Wolf's new book. Is paleo officially mainstream now?

The Corn Refiners Association is trying to reposition "High Fructose Corn Syrup" by petitioning the FDA to change the name to "Corn Sugar". They must really think the public is dumb.

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.