Over the last few years I’ve made a lot of changes to my life – this is a brief piece that was originally an introduction to another post looking at the changes to my life. After all, with the New Year approaching this is the traditional time for self-analysis. ***** Go back four or five [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Fat adaption·Muscle gain·Paleo diet·Resistance training·Self-massage·Stress·Vibrams
Over time I collect together quite a lot of links in my Google Reader, stored up because I think they would be worth sharing with people who read the blog. Last weekend I thought I’d play a bit of a game, starting with my oldest link and then playing a form of word association with [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Fat·Figure·Intermittent fasting·Sleep
This has been a long time in coming. The main reason for that, apart from the fact that things have been ridiculously busy at home, is that I struggled to know where to start with type 2 diabetes. While my research on type 1 diabetes threw up some very specific points and potential ways of [...]
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Some of you may have seen that the Ancestral Health Symposium kicked off a very public debate between Stephan Guyenet and Gary Taubes. They have differing views of the principle cause of obesity. In a very basic nutshell their differing hypothesis are as follows: Stephan supports the hypothesis that obesity is caused by the palatability [...]
Last week I provided an introduction to diabetes mellitus, the group of metabolic diseases characterised by high blood glucose (sugar) levels. The most common forms of this are type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes and over the next few weeks I am going to look in more detail at types 1 and 2, starting [...]
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There’s a high risk that any of us who live and eat by a westernised lifestyle may get diabetes at some point in our lives and on reading further I’m convinced that, with some basic understanding, we should be able to prevent it from happening. This is therefore the first in a series of three long [...]
It has been a few years since I moved to a more Paleo diet, slightly longer that I have been low carb. In comparison it has only been about six months that I have been trying daily fasting. One meal a day makes life so much less complicated. Unfortunately two weeks, instead of one, in [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Endurance·Fat adaption·Intermittent fasting·Paleo diet
Before I went into accountancy I did a degree in Archaeology. I specialised in American archaeology and Palaeolithic archaeology. I guess it was specialising in the Palaeolithic which meant I was so intrigued when I first heard about the Paleo diet (yes, there are two ways of spelling Palaeolithic, I suspect it’s an English/American divide [...]
Last week I spent some time writing about what the contraceptive pill and other hormone-based contraceptives do to our hormone cycles, when compared to the natural cycle that our bodies would follow without contraceptives. This week I’m going to pull together some conclusions about what that might mean for our diet and training. Hold onto [...]
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I’ve had a few questions from people about what I do to go onto a maintenance diet and what it looks like in terms of body composition changes. Here’s an outline of my main approach to coming off a tough fat loss diet. Coming off a diet – some principles I have some very basic [...]
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