Everybody has to do it. Every day. Waking up and getting started early can be one of the most important determinants of how your day will pan out. For many, there are those days when you feel like jumping out bed and tackling the next thing on your “to-do... (read full article)
Everyone tells us we need it….we need more and more fiber, that’s the solution to all our problems. Ok, first thing I always like to ask when hearing something like this is “who” said we need it. The usual answer for most of... (read full article)
Isn’t this what we all want deep down inside? Aren’t all our motives for doing things to reach some level of happiness? However doesn’t it always seem that happiness is just right around the corner…..we are almost there but just... (read full article)
Miguel Carrera posted a link to an interesting article in the comments of my recent post on whole grains. Published in BioMed Central, it is titled Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence – Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance?... (read full article)
This is a great article on NPR about the benefits of short term fasting. Remember, we are never talking about extended fasting to the point of muscle loss, nutrient deficiency, lowered performance and starvation. This is not the same thing as a smart... (read full article)
Note: This is a guest post by Greg Davis. Modern Forager is no stranger to fasting, having reported on its potential benefits in several posts. But has one of the paleo/low-carb heavyweights, in Dr. Mike Eades, weighed in against the practice of intermittent... (read full article)
I finished Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm fame this past weekend. In this book, Salatin talks through all of the myriad government regulations standing in the way of building a truly burgeoning local food economy. He... (read full article)
