Posts and links about what is species appropriate, evolution and also works of opinion.
The Jomon Period: The Jōmon period (縄文時代Jōmon jidai) is the time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between c.14,000–300 BCE,[1][2] recently refined to about 1000 BCE,[1][3][4] during which Japan was inhabited…
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Fat-Adapted Japanese Hunter-Gatherers
Denise Minger, a former vegan, reviews the most often vegan cited study, the China Study. I always get questions about this one, "What about the China Study????". Most who cite…
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On the China Study…
So I'm 44 at the time of this post, down close to 70lbs from my all-time-high weight and look and feel better than I ever have in my adult life.…
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Saturated Fat and Heart Disease, A Layperson’s Perspective
There is a great New York Times article by Anahad O'Connor (linked below) that pulls the rug out from underneath the debate over the optimal human diet with a look…
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Feeling Full is Optimal
While commonly called "vegetable oils", the oils derived from mostly plant seeds and grains are under a spotlight at the moment for their potential role in adverse human health developments. …
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Vegetable Oil Roundup
I just watched the live-action movie "Peter Rabbit" with my kids. This is the remake of the original Beatrix Potter book. It's been a long time since I've read the…
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Peter Rabbit and The Lost Perspective
This post to the Tim Ferriss Show blog was from 2009! https://tim.blog/2009/06/06/saturated-fat/ "The patients who followed these all-meat diets rapidly lost weight from their midsections and improved their blood sugar…
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7 Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fat
A great article on some of the history behind how the Low-Fat Ideology took off in the United States. From the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences,…
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How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America