by | Jul 7, 2015 | coeliac disease, Diet, Ecology, Evolution, Food, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Hunter-gatherer, Paleo, Your Signature Diet
Earlier this year Nutrition Australia released a new Healthy Eating Pyramid to serve as a “simple visual guide to the types and proportions of foods that Australians should eat every day for good health”. It contains the five core food groups, plus healthy fats,...
by | Jun 30, 2015 | Diet, Food, Nutrition, Your Signature Diet
Until the early 1950s, fat was just a normal part of the average person’s diet—people were not overweight and heart disease was relatively rare. Then came Ancel Keys, a nutritionist from the University of Minnesota. Keys published a six-country study in 1953 and...
by | Jun 23, 2015 | coeliac disease, Diet, Food, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Health, Paleo, Your Signature Diet
Touted in the health and fitness world as one of today’s superfoods, quinoa is appearing in all sorts of foods from salads to breakfast cereals. But what is quinoa and can you eat it as part of a paleo or grain-free diet? Yes! Quinoa is NOT a grain—it is in fact...
by | Jun 6, 2015 | Diet, Food, Health, Nutrition
At home treatment for colds Almost all strains of the common cold-causing viruses are able to survive for considerable lengths of time in the generally cooler environments of the nose than the warmer lung environments. This occurs in part because immune system defence...
by | Apr 20, 2015 | Diet, Ecology, Food, Health, Paleo
Biologists, evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists point to our hunter-gatherer ancestry to explain much of human behaviour today. But what if the roots of humanity lie not broadly in adaptation to nature but strongly influenced in adapting to a communal life...
by | Apr 20, 2015 | allergies, Autoimmune Disease, Diet, Food, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Health, Paleo
There are more than 100 trillion microbes that are part of the ecology of the human body, and most have remained largely unstudied. It is now known that changes to the ecology of body organs, in particular the gastrointestinal tract, contribute to a variety of...
