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Maintenance diet
I’ve had a few questions from people about what I do to go onto a maintenance diet and what it looks like in terms of body composition changes. Here’s an outline of my main approach to coming off a...
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Training and diet on the contraceptive pill
Last week I spent some time writing about what the contraceptive pill and other hormone-based contraceptives do to our hormone cycles, when compared to the natural cycle that our bodies would follow...
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Blog-watch: Venus figurines
Before I went into accountancy I did a degree in Archaeology. I specialised in American archaeology and Palaeolithic archaeology. I guess it was specialising in the Palaeolithic which meant I was so...
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Experiences being non-Paleo and high carb
It has been a few years since I moved to a more Paleo diet, slightly longer that I have been low carb. In comparison it has only been about six months that I have been trying daily fasting. One meal...
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Diabetes: an introduction
There’s a high risk that any of us who live and eat by a westernised lifestyle may get diabetes at some point in our lives and on reading further I’m convinced that, with some basic understanding, we...
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Type 1 diabetes
Last week I provided an introduction to diabetes mellitus, the group of metabolic diseases characterised by high blood glucose (sugar) levels. The most common forms of this are type 1, type 2 and...
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Hypotheses of the causes of obesity: food reward or carbohydrates?
Some of you may have seen that the Ancestral Health Symposium kicked off a very public debate between Stephan Guyenet and Gary Taubes. They have differing views of the principle cause of obesity. In...
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Type 2 diabetes
This has been a long time in coming. The main reason for that, apart from the fact that things have been ridiculously busy at home, is that I struggled to know where to start with type 2 diabetes....
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Blog-watch: Diet-related links association
Over time I collect together quite a lot of links in my Google Reader, stored up because I think they would be worth sharing with people who read the blog. Last weekend I thought I’d play a bit of a...
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Retrospective: how I’ve changed
Over the last few years I’ve made a lot of changes to my life – this is a brief piece that was originally an introduction to another post looking at the changes to my life. After all, with the New...
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