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It's just a variant of the almond- and coconut-flour 'paleo' breads recipes floating about the innerwebz. If you HAVE to have bread, I suppose it's a tolerable substitute. For me, baking is a post-agricultural cooking method (you couldn't bake until you had something TO bake). A paleo bread is much the same (to me) as a…

Comparison between January 2012 and July 2012: Triglycerides: 125 to 63 Total cholesterol: 200 to 128 HDL: 37 to 43 (cool!) LDL: 138 to 72 (even cooler!) Ratio: 5.4 to 3.0 My January 2013 moved back up a bit, but that was because I was backsliding big-time during the holidays. I'm back on the straight and narrow again, and…

That's the main 'shut up ' point: just tell them "I've had my lab work done, and all of them are markedly improved. I'll show you mine - show me YOURS". They can't argue the numbers. It just boils down to bias and prejudice. Example: "You need grains for the fiber" "You get all the fiber you need from eating vegetables"…

While a lot of recipes benefit from de-stemming the kale, I often use them in fry-ups. I de-stem first and chop them (the stems) up finely - then add them to the pan in the beginning along with the onions. The extra cooking time lets them get a lot softer and blend in with the stir fry - and you get to enjoy the additional…

As was mentioned, excess protein is passed on - it may cause ketosis, but it won't add weight like excess carbs do. Another option is to switch to sheep and goat dairy. Both are more easily digestible than cow dairy. I use goat butter, goat yogurt and many different goat- and sheep-milk cheeses. Define 'affordable'.…

I suppose it does - if you want to 'cheat' against your health, guilt or no guilt. One should not be striving for good with a built in plan to fail.

Basil, cilantro, Marsala wine, garlic, onion, smoked paprika.

Hilarious!

I don't do 'cheat' days per se. We keep a 'kosher' kitchen at home, and do not break regimen. Then, when we go out to eat (about once per week), we go to restaurants where we can pretty much eat paleo/primal - but we don't sweat it if the odd bit of grains, roots or sugar finds its way into the meal. The main thing to keep…

I bought some coconut oil a few years ago (prior to this diet) and it always tasted 'soapy' to me. I threw most of it out. I suspect now that it may have been stale if not rancid. I use coconut milk/oil now and enjoy it very much. There are several oils I use now in my cooking - mostly, it depends on which one goes best…

Well, I eat very little cow dairy - mostly goat and sheep dairy, which is more easily digestible. Although cow dairy is by far the most-consumed in the US, more people worldwide eat goat and sheep dairy. I use goatsmilk butter and yogurt, and a variety of goat and sheepsmilk cheeses. One of the nice things about this is…

Well, there's facts, interpretation of facts, and opinions based on facts (to varying degrees). This approach to eating is based on the concept that Man's dietary needs are still the same as they were in prehistoric times. The difficulty is that we can only surmise what a paleolithic diet consisted of, and that is what…

It's backwards - the BACON should be in the manger so we can worship it! :D

While it IS a seed and therefore 'primal', it still has a nutritional profile much the same as rice. So it basically depends on why you are eating Primal. If you are losing weight, then I'd avoid it; if you are in maintenance, I'd put it in the 'occasional' category.

Steaks on the grill, a variety of vegetables grilled and/or sauteed, mashed cauliflower, and mixed berries in some yogurt for dessert. Serve with a bottle of Syrah or Zinfandel.

Eat the toppings - leave the crust.

Baking is a post-agricultural cooking method - until you had grains, if you used an oven, you were roasting. A lot of us hunter/gatherer types prefer to just avoid it entirely - sticking with simple boiling, frying, grilling and roasting. Most 'fake baking' (recipes designed to replace a bad baked food with something a…

If you are going to eat fruits, stick to fruits with low sugar and high antioxidants like berries. Fruits like apples and nectarines are tolerable. Avoid fruits that are high-sugar or high-starches like bananas or pineapples. This is if you are dieting. If you aren't, then you can relax the rules, of course.

...and sugar beets are a root vegetable, and sugar cane is a grass. What does being an 'herb' have to do with anything?

Maybe it's only semantics, but I'll have to disagree with YOU - or at least, how you wrote it. 'Grazing' as I understand it is eating small amounts of food several times per day. That being the case, small amounts of food will not 'jack' insulin levels up - they will rise mildly to deal with the small amount of food…

Whomever said to do three larger meals is....wrong. 'Three squares' is a product of the Industrial Revolution - where meals had to be scheduled to maximize factory productivity. "Eat before you come to work; eat after you go home; oh, and we'll give you a food break at midday to keep your strength up." Hunter/gatherers eat…

While artificial sweeteners do not have calories, they DO still produce an insulin response - and minimizing that insulin response is one of the main reasons we avoid sugars and carbs in the first place. Don't use it, and learn to eat with the natural sweetness of foods and fruits. As for the 'naturalness' of stevia: - if…

Buy it fresh. You can usually get either pork belly or 'side pork' from your butcher, and they'll slice it for you. Salt it yourself when you cook it - it tastes better than bacon in my opinion. What do nitrates taste like, anyway?

Think about it: if you were tasting something OTHER than a chile, how would you interpret your body's response? We teach/force ourselves to like/endure so many marginal foods. Things that are bitter like coffee; or cause gastric distress like chiles; or burn like alcohol.

You said he's 16, right? When my kids were that age, you could tell them 'the sky is blue', and they'd spend all week arguing with me and googling points to refute me. Then the next day some respected adult like their karate coach would tell them 'the sky is blue' and they'd come home and try to convince me like I had told…

Kudos!

Indeed. As a Buddhist, I have to shoulder the karma of killing another living being to extend my own life. The least I can do is allow Brother Cow to live as happy a life as they can beforehand. ;)

I get my pork from a friend (custom raised and butchered), and do not have ANY of it cured. I cook the sliced pork belly just like bacon and hit it with a good dose of seasoning salt - when it crisps up, it's virtually indistinguishable from bacon. What does sodium nitrate taste like, anyway? I don't think there is much of…

The tenderness of meat has to do with the amount of fat marbling - and the amount of exercise the animal gets. Feedlot beef moves around very little, and are fed nothing but fat-producing grains, so the meat can be very tender (as an aside, veal is so tender because the calves are locked into cages where they CAN'T move…

If you are truly off of grains and sugars, then the amount if fat really isn't a health issue - unless you're eating nothing BUT fat. Fat can be a health issue in a SAD diet - but only because of the systemic inflammation to the body being caused by grains and sugar. Whatever you naturally eat when you eat animals and…