June 2010 and The Paleo Garden’s 1-year anniversary came and went without me taking notice. I suppose that this is as it should be.
My article “Fiat Money, Food, and Health All Go Bust” was published on the premiere libertarian website in the world carrying on the legacy and ideas of the great Austrian economists like Mises and Hayek. I have written elsewhere about the common principles between Austrian economic thought and biological systems that cooperate together to perform various actions. The Paleo Path, Part I and Part II. Wooden Nickels and Metabolic Syndrome.
A lot has happened over this last year. Now is a good time to go over our most popular posts of the last 6 months.
1. Bread is like sugar on the tongue
This outrageous post shows how quickly sugars from bread break down on the tongue and register on a glucose testing strip. The indifferent reaction of the lady still recommending heap loads of bread as part of a diet to manage diabetes is THE exemplar of maintaining the lowfat/high sugar dogma regardless of the scientific counter evidence literally right in front of your face.
2. Sex. Lies, and …Fibre to Combat Vice? (Part I)
and here’s Part II.
Did you know that the fiber movement (no pun intended) had its origins in some seedy, sleazy thoughts about SEX? And these same “sordid” opinions in a completely ironic way are now being used by these same fiber pushers (no pun intended)? Lorette C. Luzajic gives you the straight poop (and I do admit that that pun was indeed intended).
3. Wolves Among Dogs: Paleo-riffic
“I’ve always been fat. Not “fat fat” and not “American fat” in that I have always been able to walk, and touch my toes with a little grunting and straining… I always knew I could get in shape, with sufficient effort, and I always thought that the effort would be high and prolonged. Although it pains me to admit it, I was flat-out wrong. I’m losing weight, I’m getting stronger, I’m getting healthier, I sleep better, I feel better . . . and it’s easy, and getting easier all the time.” Uncle Lew explains why after going paleo he feels Paleo-riffic.
4. Kairos, the right time to start evolutionary living
Learn about the word Kairos, it may help explain why you “got it” and why others don’t.
If you’re looking for role models for your daughters…. or sons, or YOU!, then look no further. These Evolutionary Women are making paleo less brutish sounding. When we can get to the point where when initially explained about the paleo perspective the first thing a woman thinks of isn’t a caveman pulling a cavewoman by her ponytail then we’ll have really made progress. By the way, this list was compiled just a couple of weeks after Melissa started Hunt, Gather, Love, so her “honorable mention” at the end of this list is hugely outdated!
Lorette C. Luzajic sheds some light on the stories we’ve been told that not eating a vegetarian diet will make us unhealthy.
7. High Carbohydrate Diabetes Inducing (HCDI) Diet
There is ONE diet that does exactly what it sets out to do, and you can look at reams of research from Nutrition and Metabolism if you have any doubts. The HCDI diet is promoted by various camps all doing their part in making sure that this diet lives up to its name. Good job, guys.
8. Inside Baseball
Are you sometimes going off about paleo with such incomprehensible lingo that it’s like explaining baseball to a cricket player? Or better yet, like explaining cricket to anyone living in North America? If so, then you’re talking “Inside Baseball.” Uncle Lew explains how you may get your point across more lucidly.
9. They’re Happy Because They Eat Butter: Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions
Lorette C. Luzajic gives a spectacular overview of the accomplishments of the evolutionary woman, Sally Fallon, and her work to carry on the legacy of the great Weston A. Price.
10. How Dr. Bernstein Rescued my Health: A Diabetes Adventure Tale
This piece by Andrea Isom was the first guest post ever on The Paleo Garden. It is a wildly popular post which is no surprise given Andrea’s awesome professional writing skills. Thanks, Andrea, for sharing your story so that people who were in your shoes may find a safe ending to their Diabetes Adventure Tales.
My wife will be participating in the Ancestral Health Symposium next year presenting how bariatric psychology may incorporate a Paleolithic perspective. There is much to say about this and about what she’s doing between now and then, but there will be time to talk about that later.
By the way, in this Fiat Money, Food, and Health All Go Bust piece there’s a link under “produce prodigies of Keys” for Denise Minger’s article “The China Study: Fact or Fallacy.” Kudos to Richard Nikoley of Free The Animal for mobilizing our community to highlight Denise’s findings. I hope by linking to it in my “Fiat Money, Food and Health” article, I may humbly further contribute to the attention being given to exposing the faulty data/science on which rests the lowfat/high sugar dogma that’s causing so much horror.
And lastly, on the left hand column of the The Paleo Garden you will find The Paleo Post, the latest snapshot of an attempt to find the various points in the Venn diagram where our old Paleo Garden’s ways may overlap with the modern world.
On many issues we may be on different ends of the spectrum, but we’re on the same side of the barricades in The Paleo Garden. Be excellent to each other. 