The Paleo Diet is a central part of this blog. Mostly because I’ve been following it for a few years now and have loved the way I have felt from following it. That said, I’m also not an extreme follower of the diet, instead believing that the Paleo Diet is best used as a concept [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Paleo diet
I wrote last week that I was starting on a diet. I’m a week into it and, as promised, I’ve collected here a batch of update articles and posts that are principally about suitable diets for fat loss. Let’s start this week with an in-depth technical review of what fat loss is. Ryan Andrews did [...]
Since I’m on holiday and next week’s posts are likely to be a bit minor while I catch up with myself, I’ve done a bumper-size blog-watch to collate several recent and interesting articles about the China Study for this week. Back in July and August my RSS feed on Google Reader suddenly became clogged up with [...]
It’s summer time. And with summer comes plenty of fresh fruit readily available at (slightly more than usual) reasonable prices. In fact, as I write this I have a big bowl next to me that is full of blackberries that I picked and froze last autumn mixed with juicy strawberries, picked up from a market [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Fructose
I had a rant on a links post the other week about the misguided concepts that people have over what constitutes low carb or high carb diets. One of the most common questions I get from people is that carbs are a necessity and how do I cope with no carbs in my diet. Misconception [...]
Weight loss – part 8 This is the eighth part in a series about weight loss including diet, exercise, measuring your success and keeping the weight off when you stop. This is the final post of three about exercise for weight loss, wrapping up a couple of final thoughts, ideas and studies before we move [...]
I mentioned the other week that I had some interesting side effects from the cycle touring holiday. In particular my legs really suffered. I thought I’d set out here what happened and what I believe caused it. You can let me know if you agree with me. Exercise on the holiday The holiday involved a [...]
Weight loss – part 4 This is the fourth part in a series about weight loss including diet, exercise, measuring your success and keeping the weight off when you stop. So far we’ve looked at the principles of calorie deficits and some specific foods that should ideally be avoided in order to improve weight loss, [...]
I promised yesterday that I would do a post about the benefits of being fat adapted. It is a subject that is close to my heart and something that I consider to have provided me with the most freedom to truly enjoy the outdoors. What is fat adaption? Popular belief is that the human body [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate
Weight loss – part 3 This is the third part in a series about weight loss including diet, exercise, measuring your success and keeping the weight off when you stop. Last week we looked at the idea of creating a calorie deficit, the laws of thermodynamics and touched on the idea that, despite the simple [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·weight loss
