So you want to find a perfect fat burning diet that will allow you to reduce body fat and achieve your dream physique. Well, the “perfect fat burning diet” simply doesn’t exist. Sad news, I know, but I’m here to guide you through exactly what you need to do to get the best results. Following…
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101 Paleo Tips For Beginners
101 awesome Paleo tips for beginners CLICK TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GUIDE So you are interested in changing your diet and lifestyle to one that is more in line with Paleo philosophies, are you? Great! And welcome aboard. Before you begin, try and read through this list of the 100 tips for Paleo…
Do You Feed The Body Or The Disease?
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…
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…
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…
Understanding Cholesterol Levels
Understanding Your Cholesterol Test The issue with most (read all) common cholesterol tests is that they don’t actually provide usable data. The HDL-C (HDL-cholesterol) and LDL-C (LDL-cholesterol) measurement doesn’t reflect the actual number of lipoproteins in the blood. Instead, the measurement is a reading of the total amount of cholesterol that is contained within your HDL and LDL…
Awesome Paleo Recipe Books
Are you looking for some great paleo recipe books? Below I’ve put together a list of recipe books which can be bought locally in South Africa. Please bare in mind that some of these need to be brought in from the USA or the UK so there is some lead time. This is okay in…
High Protein Diet
How does a high protein diet compare to a high fat diet A high protein diet is often pushed as the answer to healthy weight loss, and in fact many people associate paleo and primal diets and lifestyles with that of being high protein ones. While protein most certainly is important, it isn’t what paleo focuses…
How To Burn Belly Fat
How to burn belly fat Belly fat is known as one of the most difficult fat areas to reduce on the body. Not only is it bad for your body, but its generally considered to be unsightly. Belly fat is linked to many diseases including heart disease. Recently, studies have shown that the relationship between…
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…
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…
Effective Gout Diet
Build An Effective Gout Diet What causes gout? Gout is a state of joint inflammation and is caused primarily by uric acid crystallising in joints and other supporting tissues. This crystallisation occurs when uric acids exists in high volume in the blood. This state of high blood uric acid concentrations is called hyperuricemia or gout. What produces uric acid…
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…
Diet Plan To Lose Weight
Searching For An Effective Diet Plan To Lose Weight? Diet’s don’t work. Simple. So what is a person to do? How do you lose weight? Why am I so conditioned to search for a diet plan to lose weight? Aren’t there any other ways? Yes, there most certainly are, and while losing weight is heavily…
