Posts Tagged: Paleo diet

The Potato Hack!

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For months I’ve been left speechless by the latest development in the world of Paleo – the “Potato Hack!”  Based on Chris Voigt’s 20-potatoes a day extravaganza, which was done as a publicity stunt in defense of the potato (somebody’s gotta love it amongst all those tater-haters out there), the potato hack has set the Paleo world ablaze with the last thing it needed - more weight loss frenzy.  Today, I weigh in on the good, bad, and ugly of the blossoming tater trend.  And I hope to abuse potato references along the way. Just so you homefries know, the potato hack is basically a mono diet – meaning your diet consists of one food.  That one food is potatoes.  Mash ‘em, boil ‘em, but don’t stick ‘em in a stew. … Read more »

What is the Healthiest Diet and Lifestyle?

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By Julia Gumm I’ve spent so many years of my life trying to figure out “how to live.” As in, how are human beings meant to live? It’s no secret that the way we exist nowadays is about a million miles away from the lifestyle of the original model, and so many of us have a pervading sense that something is, well, kinda off. It hits us when we take the time to read ingredient labels and wonder what the hell TBHQ is and what exactly it’s doing in our crackers. It hits us when we feel our palms sweating against the steering wheel in the midst of a long and nerve racking commute to and fro the job we’re not especially passionate about, anyway. It hits us when we… Read more »

Paleo Myths

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The online PALEO SUMMIT is underway!  Please go REGISTER HERE so you can hear my talk entitled “Matt Stone Debunks Paleo Diet” when it launches tomorrow. I also wanted to let you know that my latest eBook, 12 Paleo Myths: Eat Better Than a Caveman, is now available for pre-order.  Normally I would breeze through writing a book like this, but writing an entire book about what is so head-thumpingly obvious has proven to be quite tedious!  I feel like I’m writing a Master’s thesis on why a fork is not the best utensil for eating soup, if you know what I mean.  So it’s still undergoing its final revisions and will be released March 10, 2012.  If you get it before March 10th, the price will be $14.95 instead of its full launch… Read more »

Underground Wellness Paleo Summit

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Hey dudes and dudettes… Believe it or not, but an online summit comprised of 23 interviews – from Mark Sisson and Gary Taubes to Denise Minger and Jimmy Moore, was put together on the Paleo Diet and Lifestyle by Sean Croxton of Underground Wellness.  And I, ME, MATT STONE – was invited to participate.  Yes, as ironic as that sounds, I was invited to share my perspective on Paleo.  Sean didn’t want it to be too much of a “Paleo love fest,” which should give everyone a great deal of respect for Mr. Croxton.  Anyway, it’s free to listen in to any of the interviews, including my talk entitled:  “Matt Stone Debunks the Paleo Diet.”   Click HERE to REGISTER.

Mark Sisson

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Hey, sorry about my absence late last week. Wednesday distraction, Thursday drama, Friday crisis, and weekend recovery explains the last 5 days. Good stuff. All is well now though. Where were we? Ah yes, I wanted to continue our discussion of some popular diets/gurus. As promised, today we discuss Mark Sisson of http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ For starters, I want to make this perfectly clear. Sisson is one of the best health icons on earth – he’s truly the best of the low-carbers. He is running around advocating a nutritious, whole foods-based diet with no truly crippling restrictions – sort of an 80/20 rule approach. The guy drinks coffee at times, eats chocolate, has cheat meals, and otherwise has taken a general health “blueprint” and custom built it into something fairly safe, reasonable,… Read more »

The New Eating Disorders

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By Matt Stone Not too long ago a new type of eating disorder was added to the big 2, anorexia and bulimia. This new one is referred to as orthorexia, which is, in a nutshell, having an irrational infatuation with healthy eating. Of course all the health authors and bloggers out there cried out as if this were some kind of conspiracy to keep people from making healthy food choices. Maybe that has something to do with it, maybe not. Alex Jones certainly whipped up a fuss over the new term, but then again, Alex Jones whips up a fuss over pretty much everything (which incidentally makes him pretty entertaining at times). But at 180D, we know all too well that there is definitely a such thing as orthorexia, and… Read more »

Podcast with Elizabeth Walling

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Yesterday Elizabeth Walling interviewed me on The Nourished Life podcast.  We discussed mostly weight set point while diverging into a few side tangents such as exercise, the Paleo diet, and more.  You can listen to the podcast here… The Nourished Life I also regret my response to her last question, which was more or less “where does someone start?” when it comes to lowering the body weight set point.  I rambled a bit, and should have said something along the lines of… “Wake up every day and try to set a new record for how well you nourish yourself that day with quality, unadulterated, nutritious food, a good night’s sleep, plenty of pure water, and whatever else you find to be enjoyable and nourishing on a physical and emotional level.” 

Staffan Lindeberg

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As we go further down the rabbit hole of exploring the potential advantages of a diet that displaces more fat with more carbohydrate, it’s a good time to bring up Staffan Lindeberg and the 70% carbohydrate/20% fat diet of the Kitavans. While ironically drinking 6 quarts of milk per day, I read Paleo author Staffan Lindeberg’s 2010 release – Food and Western Disease.  Although this book is too expensive for most to purchase, and is about as boring as health and nutrition information could ever possibly be presented, it did have a few gems of very interesting thought.  Lindeberg is most famous for his work on the Kitavans – a tropical area in Papua New Guinea where the islanders reach old age completely free of heart disease, most cancers, type… Read more »

More Appropriate Nutritional Insight From an Evolutionary Standpoint (MANIFEST)

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Not only am I coming out with a post on a provocative fun theory that I’ve been brain-sturbating on lately, I be droppin’ Acronyms like nobody’s business. I mean MANIFEST? MANIFEST? I’d say “I’m not making this up” to emphasize how stunned I am by my own cleverness, but the thing is… I did make that up! I actually paused to pound on my chest for a moment after doing so. Anyway, let’s get into this theory, which takes the Paleo mindset on nutrition a step further… Human beings are the most heat-adapted mammal on earth. We have open pores. We sweat to cool ourselves from head to toe unlike most mammals. Other than Robin Williams and Teen Wolf, most humans have very little body hair. We have a hard… Read more »

The Diet Merry-Go-Round Twirls in Norway Too

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Here’s another top-notch story from Scandinavia, home of the famous twice-daily slab of margarine on white bread.  My comments throughout are in RED.  When I grew up I was the skinny one, and my little sister, who ate exactly the same food as me, and had the same rules at home as me, was the chubby one. We have a fairly similar body type, but she kept gaining weight, whereas I couldn’t gain weight, no matter how much I tried. She was always hungry and seemed to never get full. I was hungry fairly often, but even a very small meal would be enough, and then I just couldn’t eat more. Aha! Appetite, metabolism, and energy-partitioning are controlled by hormones and heredity! I was also fairly anxious and depressed from an early age…. Read more »

Sarah Braun Vs. Rocky Balboa

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I recently received an e-mail from a young woman who has been through the diet ringer as so many who have gravitated to 180DegreeHealth have.  From raw-foodie to low-carb Paleo, Sarah went through it all and got repeatedly punched in the face.  Just reading her story felt like I was on the receiving end of Mike Tyson or Rocky Balboa’s boxing gloves.  Extreme diets can definitely be formidible opponents, especially for a young kid with a well-intentioned but hopelessly lost mother as you are about to read.  I take great pride in 180 having become a sanctuary for those who have tried all kinds of radical diets.  I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences.  “Screw ‘em!” says Anthony Hopkins in Legend of the Fall.  Ferris Bueller’s sister said that… Read more »

Paleo for Population Control!

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Attention everyone! There is a massive and urgent problem that humanity faces.  It’s called “overpopulation.” That’s right, with the dawn of agriculture came a huge rise in global population.  It seems that neolithic foods, particularly grain and milk, were such healthy foods that they offered mankind with simply too much of an ecological advantage.  As soon as the fields and pastures gave rise to these new foods, we began proliferating like all species tend to do when health is at a maximum. For years I’ve been incapable of coming up with a solution to this huge problem.  I became even more confused when I read Lierre Keith’s The Vegetarian Myth, in which the overpopulation issue was highlighted as mankind’s primary concern heading forward, while simultaneously reading that vegan diets must… Read more »

The 1909 American Diet

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I’ve done more book-throwing this week than any week prior. First, there was a little post-alcohol and refined sugar crash that involved an argument and me throwing, not in any particular direction or with malicious intent toward the author – a copy of Julian Whitaker’s Reversing Diabetes. The book wasn’t the worst I’ve ever read, but after hearing all this miraculous diabetes reversal talk from Whitaker, I almost threw it again when I got to the end and read a selection of his Auschwitz recipes – many of which were under 300 calories. The real tear-jerker was Primal Mind-Primal Body, by Nora Gedgaudas. I was already a little wary of it after it received accolades at world champion artificial sweetener consumer Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low Carb site. But… Read more »