Would you be healthier eating a paleolithic diet?

"Since the appearance of behaviorally modern humans perhaps 50,000 years ago and particularly since the Neolithic Revolution of 10,000 years ago, cultural evolution has proceeded more rapidly than has genetic evolution, thereby producing ever-greater dissociation between the way we actually live and the lifestyle for which our genome was originally selected."

A brilliant paper discussing the pros and cons can be found HERE

Extract "Suboptimal circumstances take varying time periods to induce ill effects. Lack of oxygen is lethal in minutes, scurvy develops after months of inadequate vitamin C intake, and insufficient dietary calcium commonly takes decades to produce clinical osteoporosis. Deviations from our ancestral lifestyle—in nutrition, exercise, reproduction, etc.—can produce ill effects during early life, but many individuals appear outwardly healthy well into middle adulthood and even beyond. However, if preagricultural lifeways are truly those for which humans remain genetically programmed, we can expect that, despite our adaptability, most of us will eventually have to pay the piper. The evolutionary hypothesis proposes that chronic degenerative diseases are the price."

In the 21st Century is Speaking in Public the No1 THRILL???

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Epigenetics and Pregnancy
by Michael-Don Smith on 7-Feb-11 11:47am

Should Pregnant Women go on a Raw Food Diet {A Raw Food Diet is one where 50 to 80% of the diet is Raw food i.e. where un-cooked, un-processed, and often organic foods form a large percentage of the diet. Raw food advocates typically believe that the greater the percentage of raw food in the diet, the greater the health of an individual}

"... research is also looking at the influence of various substances from the environment on the epigenetic constitution of organisms, including humans. Diet and epigenetics appear to be closely linked. The most well known example is that of the Agouti mice: they are yellow, fat and are prone to diabetes and cancer. If Agouti females are fed with a cocktail of vitamin B12, folic acid and cholin, directly prior to and during pregnancy, they give birth to mainly brown, slim and healthy offspring. They in turn mainly have offspring similar to themselves" -http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090412081315.htm
So it is possible that Raw Moms gift their children AND their children's children, the health benefits of a Raw Food Diet...

I would be intrigued to know your thoughts?
m-D

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Community : Still Raw-n-Smooth by Michael-Don Smith on 27-Jan-11 9:24pm

I am really into the Raw Food Movement, it really has been the missing ingredient in my personal health and fitness. Quite simply being Raw means 50% to 80% of what I eat is raw, uncooked, as natural as possible and to make it all go down without being 'mushed' by cooking most of what I eat is blended i.e. the magic Green Smoothie... check out http://www.thebestofrawfood.com/ get started and let me know how you get on...

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The Death of BS? - Ecademy

During after dinner coversation at a [friends] house last night the discussion turned to television. It appears, unfortunately, that TV even when not being watched can still claim the focus of attention, at least from my point of view.
My friend, no names no pack drills, my friend insisted that 14 million people in the UK watched 'strictly', the common short form of the BBC TV show Strictly Come Dancing, 'the country's most popular dance programme', please let me know of the others it is competing against.
Without dragging you into the *minutiae of the conversation, actually now I think of it there was nothing but intellectual minutiae in this strand of l'après-déjeuner banter. As the discussion on the validity of this number was about to get over heated... the host for indeed my friend was the host and as with hosts from the dawn of time he felt that this position gave him the right to BS is guests as a matter of due course, foolishly as it turns out, turned to his 15 year old for back up and support, as he was clearly losing the argument with the adults at the table. Without hesitation, deviation or allowing time for interruption the young man whipped out his shining internet enabled PDA/Phone/MP3 player/BS annihilator and 'googled' the audience figures for 'strictly'!

Although nearly captured by the Google distraction effect and being lured into a tempting siding of 'few Strictly Come Dancing viewers would have guessed Felicity Kendal, 64, and Ann Widdecombe, 63, were born just a year apart, shortly after the Second World War.' we managed to stay focused and learn... [strictly] Audience figures peaked when Miss Widdecombe took to the dance floor on Saturday evening, with 10.1 million viewers and 45.9 per cent of the entire audience share.

So although mine hosts underlying argument that strictly was horrendously popular was in fact correct, his BS audience figure was shattered by the ready and speedy access to real time data that the majority of us can now have, if not in our pockets, surely within very easy reach.

Another and perhaps more important example is the case of the 'Bargain' Vauxhall Vectra. For reasons of my own which are no real concern of yours I was looking to upgrade my car to a 1.9 diesel Vauxhall vectra. Now now gentle reader this is an example of the death of BS and your opinions on my transport choices are not relevant at this moment thank you. As I was saying, in the process of negotiation the jolly car salesman assured me he was doing me a massive favour by offering me a 56 plate 112,000 mile very nice condition vehicle of the aforementioned genus for only £4000 great british pounds. Lulled and seduced by his not inconsiderable charm, which included taking the vehicle home overnight 'to get a feel for the quality' I did indeed drive home feeling like the cat who ate the cream etc.
However not only did the salesman's charm fade quickly as I considered where the £4000 was going to come from, I also felt a growing and easily fulfilled need to search on 'Parkers' car price web site for the current figures on cars of this particular make and model... and so within seconds the salesman BS disapeared like a bachelor ninja being chased by Ms Widdecome for a french kiss, as I discovered the market price for the 100's of Vectras for sale on line was around £3,300 and most of them of that age with lower mileage.

So, now that so many facts are so easily checked and double checked, are we living in the age that saw the end of BS as we know it?

What do you think?

and
Do you have any other examples of the Intenet killing BS in your experience?

PS
Minutiae (singular. minutia) are, in everyday English, minor or incidental details
PPS
If you tell me you don't know what BS stands for... that's most probably BS


We live in amazing times with the speed and variety and reach of communication continuing to gather speed and with no sign of slowing down. In this modern context is...
Speaking in Public...
Still the No1 fear or...
In the 21st Century is it the No1 THRILL???
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The Death of BS? - Ecademy

Choose your reality

If everything changes... what then of truth?

There is no PRIZE... Out there!

If you don't find your true passion, someone else's passion will find you!!!
Call of Duty is someone else's Passion and they've got you paying time and money to play their game and fulfil there dream.  Time is your biggest asset, how are you investing it, in your dream in your studies or in someone else's dream, someone else's plan?  you know you can't get any of it back, this time thing, you do know that don't you?

There is no prize... out there. The prize is inside of you and if you haven't found your prize and your passion yet... inside is the only place you can find it. Kevin Spacey tells it beautifully... as always ;-).

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Knowledge is Action

Only when you act on what you have learned of something can you truly say you know that thing.

The Power of Gratitude

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.. 

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words 
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?" 


The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." 
I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it." 
Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
Source Rudi Metha

Forer's Unrecognised Genius Test

Does this fit You?

• You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.
• You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
• You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.
• While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
• Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you.
• Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.
• At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
• You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
• You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others” statements without satisfactory proof.
• You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others.
• At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.
• Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic.
• Security is one of your major goals in life.

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This is what you do...

When you are in a terrible place

      and the illusion of fear seems too bright to bear

             and the false aprehension of disaster
                                            is twisting at you inside

 
 
This is what you do...
 
Keep breathing! Keep breathing! 
Keep looking and listening! 
Deal with things as they really are... not with how bad they could be! 
Never stop yourself... let the situation or the problem stop you... it rarely will! 
Know that there absolutely is a solution... probably more than one...
                                                Some of them really easy...
                                                                    keep seeking for it/them! 
When you get over/past/through it...
                            as you almost certainly will..
                                           You will be stronger, wiser and
                                                                     more able than before!
 

When you get over/past/through it...
                                 remember these words...
                                                    ...for the next time...

and in the meantime...
                                     share them!

Colin Powell speaks about leadership