Feeding the body vs feeding the disease I recently got given the idea to write a post about this topic from a reader, thanks! I think it’s a great topic for discussion, as in one sentence it seems to really get to the point and polarise exactly what healthy eating is all about. Many people…
Category: Low Carbohydrate
Create Your Banting Diet Plan
Creating Your Perfect Banting Diet Plan Before I “found” Paleo, I really had a hard time with staying healthy. I tried my best to eat what I thought at the time was healthy, but the reality was that I was only partially helping my body recover. I thought that all of the “normal” (foods which…
Weight Loss Success Stories with Paleo
Paleo weight loss success stories It is no real secret that Paleo is a great diet if you want to drop some extra kilograms, but where can a person read about other’s success without having to deal with a slew of diet product manufacturer, totally biased, doctored stories. If you’ve been looking for “proof” on the…
Tim Noakes Diet vs Paleo
What is the difference between the “Tim Noakes” diet and Paleo? Update: Looking for tested, cost sensitive, delicious, nutritious and low-carb (Banting/Tim Noakes diet safe) recipes? Great! Check out ours! Click here. Many high fat diets have very similar core ideas and promote the same low carb, grain free and high fat eating. The recent…
Is Paleo an effective Diabetes diet?
This article will adress type 2 diabets specifically Type two diabetics are generally regarded as those people who have diabetes because of lifestyle influences. For the most part, diabetes here is caused by an imbalanced nutrient intake, typically consisting of lots of carbohydrates, especially refined carbohydrates. Sadly, type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic levels across…
Carbohydrate Sensitivity
What is carbohydrate sensitivity? Carbohydrate sensitivity, (also known as metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance) is a condition affecting more people than it has previously thought to have. The condition arises in many as a direct result of a diet too high in carbohydrates. Trying to understand carbohydrate sensitivity from the outside can seem pretty difficult. After…
The Tim Noakes Diet
Who is Professor Tim Noakes and what is the “Tim Noakes Diet”? Tim Noakes is a globally acclaimed sports and nutrition professor who specialises in understanding the way the human body functions while performing vigorous activity; such as playing a sport. However, he has great knowledge about nutrition and health for people who aren’t physically…
Low Carbohydrate Foods
What low carbohydrate foods should I be eating? Low carbohydrate versions of common high carbohydrate foods: Rice -> Cauliflower rice Use a cheese grater and grate a head of cauliflower so that you are left with a pile of rice like cauliflower pieces. Heat a skillet and fry the cauliflower on a relatively low heat…
Healthy Eating Plan To Lose Weight
How to build a healthy eating plan to lose weight Building a healthy eating plan is the cornerstone to a healthy diet. A good place to start if you are interested in building a healthy meal plan is to evaluate what you are already eating and how it is affecting your health. Fat gain is…
Gout Cure Through Diet Alone
Gout cure through diet alone, is it possible? Gout is caused by a build up of uric acid in the joints, leading to inflammation, lack of movement and lots of pain. The body attempts to control uric acid levels in the body by balancing the rate at which it is excreted out of the body. Uric acid…
Gout Symptoms
What are some of the most common gout symptoms? Pain in joints such as the big toe. Pain may originate in other joints first such as the ankles. Intense pain on touch. Even the lightest touch can result in excruciating pain. Attacks of pain fading off over a couple of days. After which the skin near the…
Gluten Intolerance: How To Identify?
Gluten intolerance symptoms: Have you noticed that whenever you eat grain based foods like bread or pasta that your stomach cramps up or you feel uneasy and suffer from diarrhea? Well then you may be gluten intolerant. Gluten intolerance is becoming more and more commonplace in the modern world. Grain producing companies use genetically modified seeds to ensure that they reach their required…
Gluten Free Diet
What constitutes a gluten free diet? Firstly, perhaps it would be best to examine what gluten actually is and why it is so offensive to the body. Gluten is a protein that is used in foods to alter their texture and structure. It is particularly valuable in the production of bread as it gives dough…
Foods That Burn Belly Fat
Delicious Foods That Burn Belly Fat The conventional wisdom that foods which help with weight loss have to be gross is totally incorrect. Most foods that society encourages you to eat in order to lose weight actually work in the complete opposite way. The correct way of approaching which foods you should be eating is by first removing…
Carbohydrate Intolerance
What do we mean we talk about carbohydrate intolerance and carbohydrate sensitivity? Insulin resistance and carbohydrate intolerance go hand in hand. Essentially they are the same thing and are caused by the same stimulus. Insulin resistance is sadly a lot more common than most people would believe. If your parents are overweight and eat a…
Carbohydrate Free Diet
What are the benefits of a carbohydrate free/reduced diet? Thanks to great authors like Tim Noakes and Tim Ferriss, people are generally aware of the fact that heavy carbohydrate diets don’t work for weight loss or pretty much any other reason. One of the first pieces of advice given by paleo and primal advocates when…
Best Way To Lose Weight
What is the best way to lose weight? As you may expect, the answer to this question is not a straightforward one. There is no “best way”, but there are some right ways that weight loss should be approached. Most advice states that a person should decrease their portion sizes, constrict caloric intake and reduce fat consumption in order…
Low Carbohydrate Diet
What makes a diet a low carbohydrate diet? A diet is a low carbohydrate diet when the daily intake of carbohydrates is below 200 odd grams. Contrary to popular belief, low carbohydrate diets have been around for a very long time in some shape or form, even as early as the late 1800’s. In 1863,…
