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Category Archives: Kidney Function
Rage of Ages: Advanced Glycation End Products
If you were to walk into your local physician or general practitioner’s office and ask them about the connection between nutrition and health, most would toe the party line and tell you that a diet high in plant foods and low in animal proteins and fat is the way to go – end of story! If you were to dare to probe more deeply and ask your doctor about the glycemic index and how it influences your health, most would stare off blindly into space or ignore your question because many of them are unaware of this concept. It is…
The Paleo Diet Blog Top 10
Following a Paleo diet is the surest way to optimal health. Get the scoop on the most popular Paleo topics by reading The Paleo Diet Blog Top 10.
New Research Highlights Health Benefits of High Protein Diets
There’s no such thing as an inherently high protein diet. What we commonly call high protein diets are simply diets containing more protein than those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and other institutions. But institutions, of course, can and have been wrong. We have seen this, for example, with respect to trans fats, dietary cholesterol, and other important areas of nutrition. So what if so-called high protein diets are actually an optimal-protein and what if the diets recommended by the aforementioned institutions are actually suboptimal? A new study, recently published in the American…
Evolution and High Protein Diets Part 3
Did you miss Evolution and High Protein Diets Part 1? Click Here to Read It! Did you miss Evolution and High Protein Diets Part 2? Click Here to Read It! DIETARY PROTEIN: HEALTH AND WELL BEING Establishing Cause and Effect between Diet and Disease One of the challenges faced by nutritional scientists when they ultimately make recommendations regarding what we should and should not eat is to establish cause and effect between a dietary element and the subsequent development or prevention of disease. Some foods and some dietary habits promote good health whereas others promote disease. No single procedure alone…
Is Paleo Sustainable for 7 Billion People?
Can our planet support 7 billion people following the Paleo Diet? We cannot dispute that there are negative environmental factors, such as excessive water and fossil energy use and large emissions of greenhouse gases, resulting from the standard process of agriculture and livestock farming. These methodologies make it seem unrealistic that even our current food production system can sustain our planet, let alone support the Paleo diet alone. Obviously, no one wants to contribute to an ecological collapse. If 7 billion people adopted a diet higher in animal meat under the existing methods of production, it would continue to tax…
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