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Monday + Sunday In Meals

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Good morning, friends! How’s it going?? I hope your 2017  is off to a very happy and healthy start! As you probably remember, I kicked off my new year with some serious healthy eating motivation , and I have a feeling it’s just going to keep growing once I’m on a brand spanking new Designed to Fit Nutrition plan! Our new software is amazzzzing, and, holy cow, we are excited for the coming months. We have a TON of new clients for the new year, including a number of CNC readers, and I really don’t think they know what they’re getting themselves into. Haha! Totally kidding! I am especially looking forward to working with the CNC peeps! Anyway, it’s time for a special edition of Monday In Meals where I recap what I ate throughout the day on Sunday and Monday with a few random adventures thrown into the mix. Ok, here we go! SUNDAY IN MEALS Breakfast : Scrambled eggs with roasted red potatoes, sauteed kale (I used unsweetened coconut cooking oil ), and ketchup + iced coffee with c

Goodbye, Staffan Lindeberg

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A photo Staffan sent me, showing him  weighing a Kitavan man as part of the  Kitava Study. I recently heard the sad news that Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD, and lead researcher of the Kitava Study, has died. Staffan was a dedicated researcher and physician at Lund University in Sweden whose work was inspired by the evolutionary health principle.  After reading Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner's seminal 1985 paper on Paleolithic nutrition, in Staffan's words, "it gradually dawned on me that John Harvey Kellogg, a vegetarian zealot, had more influence on dietary advice than Charles Darwin had" (Staffan Lindeberg. Food and Western Disease . 2010).  Long before it was en vogue , he adopted a Paleo-style diet and saw his own chronic disease risk factors, such as body weight and blood pressure, decline. Shortly thereafter, Staffan organized the Kitava Study-- an investigation into the diet and health of one of the few remaining cultures scarcely touched by i

Is This The Year You Achieve Your Health Goals?

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  Happy New Year everybody!! It’s that time of year where you see all kinds of various media sources spouting diet gimmicks and easy-to-swallow pills that will supposedly make you look like a… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2i2QHgt

Dear Mark: Raising HDL Particle Number, Who Should Try Ketones, and Where’s My Keto Energy?

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For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’m answering three questions from readers. First up, what’s the best way to increase your HDL particle count? There are dozens of articles explaining how to reduce LDL-P, but what about HDL-P? Second, are ketones right—or necessary—for everyone? The final question comes from a reader who, despite sticking with the diet for four months, hasn’t felt the fabled “keto energy.” Should she try ketone supplements, give it more time, or what? Let’s go: Any ideas of what might increase hdl-p? There is surprisingly little information that i can find. So far the only thing i’ve found is that resistant starch raises it in pigs fed a western diet .http://ift.tt/2hKaa80 That’s certainly one route—via eating more resistant starch . I’d also guess that eating more prebiotic substrate in general will have favorable effects on HDL-P. Exercise is a big one. In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, exercise predicts rises in HDL-P . The largest increases are in s

Trend Alert: Pea Protein

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Proteins derived from plants are getting more recognition as many folks strive to have a more plant-based diet. At the forefront of this trend is protein from legumes like peas. Find out if the newfound popularity is worth the hype.   Peas As a Protein Source One cup of raw green peas contains 8 grams of protein. Yellow or green split peas are also often used for pea-based products; this dried version contains 48 grams in the same 1 cup portion. Depending on the product, you might find either of these options added so check ingredient lists for clarification. The type of protein found in peas is different than animal derived sources. As with most plant-based foods, some amino acids are missing, but peas do contain three important muscle building “branched chain” amino acids, leulcine, isoleucine and valine. Pea protein powder has become a popular additive in snack foods and bars. Extracting the protein from food to powder does require some processing so the nutrient profile will

Happy 2017!

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For some odd reason I’ve been thinking it was 2017 for a while now. But now it’s officially here. It wasn’t the most dramatic new year weekend, but it was a solid one full of champagne and black eyed peas ; ) My favorite wine club now offers bubbly, and the bottle above, which I opened during cocktail hour, was fantastic. Saturday morning I had a cinnamon raisin bagel from Bodos with cream cheese, and pear. The bagel was delicious! It also kept me full through early afternoon (although I did eat a later breakfast). Mid-afternoon after a trip to the gym, I had a chocolate Vega smoothie made with banana, peanut butter, spinach and milk. We had early dinner plans, and I wanted to save up my appetite! After hosting some friends with bubbly at home, I joined a party of five for dinner at Maya . Maya does southern food just right. You can’t go without getting the pimento cheese fritters with red pepper jelly! I also had some cornmeal-fried oysters and a kale salad to start, plus a g