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…
Category: The Paleo Diet
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…
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…
How To Lose Weight Fast
How To Use The Paleo Diet To Lose Weight Fast Losing weight is really simple when we break down exactly what needs to happen to actually make it happen in the body. What exactly needs to happen in the body to lose weight automatically? Why has it been made out to be something which is…
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,…
Paleo Diet Plan, What Is It?
What is a Paleo diet plan? The Paleo diet, primal diet or sometimes referred to as the caveman diet is basically a diet focused on eating only the foods your body knows what to do with. Perhaps coincidentally, many of these foods are high quality and very nutritious. The issue with many diets, including “non” diets…
What Is The Paleo Diet?
What is the paleo diet? So what is this paleo diet everyone is talking about? What is it based on? What are the scientific principles related to the diet? The paleo diet is simply put one of, if not the healthiest way you can eat. The premise of the diet is that there are certain foods which…