This article and video on CBS San Francisco highlights the August 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA, and the reporter interviews doctors, scientists, researchers, and enthusiasts about the ancestral health lifestyle that has enriched the health and lives of so many dedicated adherents. From the article: A growing number of scientists, medical doctors and nutritionists [...]

Charles and Julie Mayfield have put together a great paleo-real food cookbook that promises to be a winner: “Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking for a Gluten-Free Kitchen.” I met and spoke with them at the Ancestral Health Conference in August. These paleo-real food recipe books are so important because the recipes are always simple (for [...]

A lot of folks (enquiring minds?) want to know how one goes about obtaining quality – real! – food at an affordable cost, and part of that effort involves finding the right resources. Hence my upcoming article on how to do this. It’s a long article, so it has been talking some extra time. Meanwhile, [...]

Lew Rockwell interviews Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon, on eating fat to lose fat.

Dr. Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He writes for LewRockwell.com, including his recent piece, “Enjoy Saturated Fats, They’re Good For You!” Dr. Miller’s great article was based on this presentation, which is now online. Follow me on Twitter @karendecoster.

The only thing worse than the name of the program – the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act of 2010 – is the premise of the program, which is to repeat the same mistakes, only this time with a dash of whole wheat. In an earlier post (titled “Shoot me in the head with a whole grain, [...]

Here’s one of many great examples to show how good food – real food – is not unaffordable, is not elitist, and is not out of the reach of the middle-to-lower classes. I have a quick example, here, to run by folks. I just made a pastured pork steak that I bought directly from my [...]

I can’t help but post these because I think they are so cool.  This is my motto I hang everywhere (including at the office): Here is another motto I live by.

Government. And quasi-governmental, fraudulent corporatocracy whores like the ADA. See my blog on this from yesterday. Now see this ad from the Nutrition and Metabolism Society.

My recent post about Suzanne Somers defying the conventional wisdom of the medical establishment generated many positive responses from readers, as well as stories from folks who experienced their own epiphany through sickness or disease. Perhaps Suzanne Somers has been reading LewRockwell.com, my website, the paleo community blogs, or even Gary Taubes? Maybe she does, [...]