George Hamilton admits that he has been addicted to sunbathing for much of his life. The photo below (from: phoenix.fanster.com), shows him ...

Some types of cancer have traditionally been higher among the Inuit than in other populations, at least according to data from the 1950s, wh...

The coconut is often presented as a healthy food choice, which it is, as long as you are not allergic to it. Coconut meat has a lot of satur...

It has been argued that the diets of our Paleolithic ancestors had on average a much higher potassium-to-sodium ratio than modern diets (see...

Different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health; this includes bones and organs. Therefore it ...

Charles Darwin, perhaps one of the greatest scholars of all time, thought about his theory of mutation, inheritance, and selection of biolog...

Acknowledgement: In addition to the references provided at the end of several posts, I would like to acknowledge that I also regularly consu...

Often in discussions about Paleolithic nutrition, and books on the subject, we see speculations about how long it would take for a populatio...

As I blog about health issues, and talk with people about them, I often notice that there is a growing contempt for the medical profession. ...

The fundamental principle of the paleo diet movement is that we should model our diet on the diet of our ancestors. In other words, for opti...

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The original inhabitants of the Ryūkyū Islands, of which the island of Okinawa is the largest, are believed to have the highest life expec...

This is an issue that often comes up in online health discussions, and was the topic of a conversation I had the other day with a friend abo...

Since different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health, it makes sense to consume the fish whol...

I would like to comment on a recent article co-authored by Dr. Loren Cordain, and published in the journal Current Treatment Options in Car...

A recent post  on the Primal Wisdom blog led me to do go back to some of the research on an approach to dieting that I tried myself, with so...