[ExI] Health and Nutrition

Ben Zaiboc bbenzai at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 1 14:39:01 UTC 2012


An interesting article from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century":

http://www.ajcn.org/content/81/2/341.full

If you start getting cross-eyed, skip to the summary.

It's encouraging that mainstream nutritionists are starting to wake up to the idea that the standard western diet is terribly bad for us, and why.


Also:
Have any of you heard of Dave Asprey before?:
http://www.bulletproofexec.com/

Another twist on the palaeolithic diet, but it seems more accessible than most.  
I'm not so sure about the putting of butter into coffee, though!


Ben Zaiboc




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