The End of Craving
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In my previous post, I discussed whether there is a toxic food problem in America. The short version is that I'm skeptical that added chemicals play a bigger role than the excess calories from...
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The Gift of Being Gluten-Intolerant or Celiac (if you accept it)
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As someone that has had to give up gluten twice now, I want to share some wisdom with those of you that are having to deal with this issue. STOP TRYING TO REPLACE YOUR GLUTEN BASED DIET WITH THE...
Read more →Gluten / Wheat - Just When I Thought I Was Out...
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It has been a long time since I last posted on gluten. I thought the topic was finished for me, but unfortunately, it is not. I need to return. Or like the quote from The Godfather 3 said: Just when...
Read more →Gluten / Wheat - The Final Chapter
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About a year ago I began eating wheat on a regular basis. Not daily. Maybe 1-3 times a week. Fortunately for me I didn't experience any issues. This is great because if we go back to 2009, I was...
Read more →Bread Defenders to the Left of Me, Alarmists to the Right
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The debate on bread/gluten in the nutritional blogosphere is rather sad. On one side you have alarmists who use weak evidence to make the case that bread is toxic and on the other side you have...
Read more →Wheat Resiliency
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I wanted to respond to a comment on my post Peanuts and Resiliency from Terance. > Do you think that the resiliency/fragility argument can be applied to wheat products as well? I seem to be much less...
Read more →10 Awful Nutritional Myths Gets One Half Wrong
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It feels like I wrote this post once before for a similar article. This response will take a different angle. Kamal Patel's article 10 Awful Nutrition Myths Perpetuated by the Media The truth behind...
Read more →I Survived My First Beer in 5 Years!
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Up until Friday, my last full beer was in September 2009. When I discovered gluten was causing me issues, I stopped drinking beer. Other types of alcohol didn't really interest me, so I stopped...
Read more →The 10 Health Myths Article Gets One Wrong
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The article 10 Health Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science was posted back in October, but I just saw it this morning. When I scanned the list, I mostly agreed with their conclusions or...
Read more →The "4 Toxins" Revisited
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My thoughts on nutrition have changed quite a bit in last few years. I was just going through the archives and I came across the post I did after my December 2011 trip to Ohio. In the post Paleo in...
Read more →Rage Against the Gluten Skeptics
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The gluten defenders lapped up the article This Is Your Brain on Gluten by James Hamblin. Anything that conforms to their opinion that avoiding gluten makes one orthorexic is a message worth...
Read more →Commercial Gluten Free Gochujang is Now Available!
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UPDATE (September 7, 2014): This product is wheat-free, not necessarily gluten free. Good news for my fellow gluten free peeps that wish to cook more Korean dishes at home. You no longer need to...
Read more →(Probably) My Last Post on Gluten
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After posting both parts of Was I Wrong About Gluten?, I felt I still needed to tie everything together. Like other aspects of nutrition, when there is massive disagreement, I try to approach the...
Read more →Was I Wrong About Gluten? Part 2
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For those who haven't read Part 1, please do so now. In it, I describe how I removed gluten from my diet and experienced positive health benefits. Then I reflected on how I became sensitive to gluten...
Read more →Was I Wrong About Gluten?
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For years I have been anti-gluten. I removed it from my diet and my skin quality improved and I got leaner effortlessly. But lately I've seen a growing backlash against the gluten backlash. Instead...
Read more →Results From My 30 Days Without Grains Experiment
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I was just reminded that I never posted the outcome to My Current Experiment: 30 Days Without Any Grains. There was a data issue with this test. On September 1st, I got exposed to gluten at a...
Read more →Commercial Gyro Meat is Absolutely Not Gluten Free
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Let me share with you the hell I went through late Sunday night, so you never have to experience it. I was out all day Saturday and had lunch at a Greek restaurant. I had a gyro meat salad with no...
Read more →Gluten Free Lasagna
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I've never made lasagna before, but I love the dish. When I gave up the gluten a few years ago, I also gave up the lasagna. Well, I got to chatting with a local gluten-free chef that mentioned using...
Read more →Loosening the Paleo Collar
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I slowly started the Paleo diet back in 2008 and was fully on board by the end of that year. Long story short is that I leaned out and cured my rosacea. The strategies I aggresively followed in the...
Read more →Coffee and Gluten: Say It Isn't So
Today I read an unfortunate sentence. From the Perfect Health Diet post Around the Web; PaleoFX Edition: > Warning: Dr Clark says that coffee is bad for people with gluten sensitivity, due to...
Read more →Paleo in Ohio - Adventures in Inflammation
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I am back from my 9 day trip to Central Ohio. When I last visited Ohio 3 years ago, I wasn't full Paleo/Primal. My focus back then was on reducing bread, not eliminating it. I also was not paying...
Read more →The Reality About Tea and Fat Loss
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In the past four years, I've probably been to close to 100 tea tasting events. One topic that pops up on a regular basis is the claim that tea will promote fat loss and prevent cancer. I used to eat...
Read more →Wheat Belly - Here It Comes
For the past 30 years, whole wheat has been considered the staple of a heart-healthy diet. This may be the biggest lie in nutrition today. Not only is wheat not healthy, but I also discovered that...
Read more →Gluten-Free is the Latest Excuse To Eat Junk Food
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Everywhere I go these days there seem to be more and more gluten-free options. Grocery stores are carrying more and more gluten-free options. Many restaurants now carry gluten-free options on their...
Read more →The Cigar Defense For Bread
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Does anyone recall the cigar fad from the mid-1990s? Cigar bars popped up. Celebrities were photographed smoking them. Cigarettes were out and cigars were in. Whenever someone brought up health...
Read more →My Review of The Paleo Solution
The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet by Robb Wolf starts off with a stellar detailed look at macronutrients, hormones, and then he goes after grains. The Paleo Solution makes the best case I...
Read more →If I Were Still a Vegetarian...
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2019 UPDATE: This post has not aged well. There is a lot I would remove or change. It is only remaining on the site for archival purposes. It is true that I no longer follow a vegetarian diet. It...
Read more →Life Without Gluten
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I am a fan of doing experiments on nutrition and fitness. And although I understand most people do not share my enthusiasm, if I were to pick a single 30 day experiment for mankind it would be to go...
Read more →Saying Goodbye to Beer
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Until I had Sam Adams, I didn't believe that beer could taste good. It opened my eyes to a world of beer in a way that local roasted coffee opened my eyes to quality coffee. When I arrived in...
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