Primal Nut

I don’t expect you to believe everything I say without some backup.  Here is a list of some of the information that helped me change my view of nutrition and the food industry.  Not all of this is entirely Paleo, but all roads lead to the same destination (*yay* natural fat/meat/veggies/whole food, *boo* carbs/sugar/corn/processed).

Fat Head -  In addition to chronicling writer Tom Naughton’s weight drop while on a diet of burgers and fries, the film provides interviews with doctors, nutritionists and others to drive home his thesis that most of what we know about “healthy eating” is wrong. Watch it FREE on Hulu, right now! He also frequently blogs here about current issues in nutrition.

If you want straight facts, check out his speech on the Big Fat Fiasco.  Broken out into 5 parts here -

• Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/user/FatHeadMovie#p/u/6/exi7O1li_wA
• Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/user/FatHeadMovie#p/u/5/cmwNpUJUjPg
• Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/user/FatHeadMovie#p/u/3/TuxDuLKz39c
• Part 4 – http://www.youtube.com/user/FatHeadMovie#p/u/2/Z9mQ-QZkZpk
• Part 5 – http://www.youtube.com/user/FatHeadMovie#p/u/4/cEayi6IBjZw

Check out Mark’s Daily Apple. There is a TON of information on this site.  Read Primal Blueprint 101 to get started.  Be careful though! You might get sucked in to his site for days! Here’s another article on Why Grains are Unhealthy.

If you prefer listening to reading, subscribe to Robb Wolf’s podcast – The Paleo Solution

Here’s Paleo in a Nutshell! A perfect video to show others when they start questioning your crazy new eating habits.

Here it is, five weeks later and I’m finally starting this blog. I’ve already learned so much about the Paleo diet and living primal. But before I jump into this head first, let’s back up and understand how I got here.

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with carbohydrates. Even as a kid, “bread” was my favorite food. Luckily, I was always active and played sports all the way through college. I didn’t really see a harmful effect until after I graduated. Minus a few drops in weight due to strict diet phases, I gained an average of 10lbs a year from 2004-2010. That doesn’t seem like a lot until you add it up. 60lbs.

With the popularity of food industry documentaries like Food, Inc. and diet documentaries like Fat Head, I was gradually exposed to contradicting science. I kept digging deeper to uncover the truth about nutrition and choose my side. Initially, it didn’t make sense to question the USDA and their simple pyramid that promotes low fat and whole grains.  But once you examine the studies and really dive into the meat of the issue (pun intended), you’ll find huge gaping holes and bad science.  Plus, I remembered my own experiences with low carb and calorie counting diets. I finally dropped all my preconceived notions about what was healthy and used my common sense.  I know carbs and sugar are bad, so the biggest mental hurdle for me was befriending natural fats.  After researching hours on the internet over winter break, I finally started to believe what I was reading.  It makes more sense that human beings are meant to live on meat, vegetables, and natural fat.  Nothing processed.

Soon after this revelation I found Paleo and have been following it as a way of life since 1/1/2011.