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 | Dec 13, 2013 | Diet, Ecology, Evolution, Food, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Hunter-gatherer, Paleo, Your Signature Diet
A paleo diet has a lot to offer. It’s based on the foods eaten by our hunter-gatherer ancestors in Africa during the paleolithic era from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the agricultural revolution about 13,000 years ago. The main foods available...