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Radio Inter­view with Dr. Cor­dain author of the Paleo Diet

I recently came to appre­ci­ate how much grains had an impact on my health after stray­ing from our diet on a few occa­sions with desert when we went out for din­ner. Both times I strayed the arthri­tis in my neck flared up within a day or so in a very notable way. This is the same arthri­tis that I was told would lead to fus­ing my ver­te­brae together within 5 years of my diag­no­sis. That was three years ago. I guess we will see where I am in another two years.

The dam­age to my neck has already been done through years of abuse with my diet. The dif­fer­ence now is that the chronic pain no longer exists.  Three years ago the pain was high enough that I almost did the surgery for relief. This is one instance that I am glad I procrastinated…

I am often asked to pro­vide a list of (click here->) the foods we eat and do not eat. Here is that list.

I am sure I have omit­ted some things but the major foods are there. It may seem extreme but it really isn’t. It is a lit­tle chal­leng­ing at times only because the bulk of mass pro­duced foods are not tai­lored to this lifestyle.Even so, it is quite easy to stick to once you under­stand the effects that cer­tain foods have on your health.

If you are inter­ested, do a lit­tle research. I did. It is no coin­ci­dence that this lifestyle is a com­mon choice amongst can­cer patients. It is easy to see why when you start tak­ing a close look at what is in the foods you are eating.

I recently read the results of a study that was con­ducted to deter­mine the pos­si­ble health effects of the com­mon every day food dye referred to as Red #40. Like so many of the count­less reports pro­duced to scare us into some type of mass pho­bia about the foods we eat, this one is no dif­fer­ent. This study, in which rats were fed a diet con­sist­ing of up to 10% Red 40 for two weeks, concluded

Red-40 sig­nif­i­cantly reduced repro­duc­tive suc­cess, parental and off­spring weight, brain weight, sur­vival, and female vagi­nal patency devel­op­ment. Behav­iorally, R40 pro­duced sub­stan­tially decreased run­ning wheel activ­ity, and slightly increased post­wean­ing open-field rear­ing activ­ity. Over­all, R40 pro­duced evi­dence of both phys­i­cal and behav­ioral tox­i­c­ity in devel­op­ing rats at doses of up to 10% of the diet.

Once again it seems we are fed infor­ma­tion from a half baked study from some fly by night orga­ni­za­tion called the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, in an effort to scare us. We have been eat­ing this stuff for years. For that mat­ter I am sure many peo­ple con­sume more than the pre­scribed 10% noted in the study with rats. I have per­son­ally been con­sum­ing foods with things like red 40 since I was a kid and I am still breath­ing.  Big deal, so what if it is red. Besides I am not a rat!

That, was the old me talk­ing. The “me” that existed less than a decade ago. The one that often let reports about things like food dyes, go in one ear and con­tinue reading…

Every­one knows some­one who at least knows some­one who has a food allergy. We hear about it all the time. “They cant eat peanuts” or “they carry an epi-pen every­where they go”. Heck my son has an allergy to wheat gluten that has an endorphin-like effect on his behav­ior. At least in his case it isn’t life threatening.

I don’t  buy the hygiene the­ory as it relates to food aller­gies in the video. I do con­tinue reading…