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Ray Mears — wild food
Ray Mears
Do our ancestors’ diets give us accurate information as to what we should eat now for best health?
Does an “eat anything that doesn’t eat you first” plan give the best health or is it just the best survival plan?
Ray Mears’ Wild Food series gives us some tantalizing clues…
Stone age hunting
Wednesday night’s episode on BBC2 was a real eye-opener. Ray, and a university expert on hunter-gatherers and edible wild food, camped in the woods and lived like Mesolithic people.
They used the tools and food preparation methods that are known about from that era. The Mesolithic by the way is the “Middle Stone Age” when the bow was developed as a hunting tool… Read more
Vitamin B12 analogues and deficiency
Carla asks a very important and interesting question…
“Thanks for the updates… I love the reminder to check in! And you always have something interesting goin’ on… I’ve been meaning to enquire about an issue and wondered if you’d do a write up about it as I’ve not found anything definitive yet.
OK, it’s the B12 issue… we all know that spirulina and other green algae have B12 analogues in them that are NOT readily absorbed. My question is, do they interfere with the absorption of regular ol’ B12?! Some say yes, do not ingest them… others are naysayers and say they have synergistic benefits. It’s really confusing and I would like to know your take on this! Thanks… hope that makes sense :-) Have a great weekend!”
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OK, in case you think that second paragraph is written in a foreign language… it’s not :-)
Non-vegans are probably not going to have a clue what this question actually means. So a bit of background information to start…
Those making an ethical choice — vegans and vegetarians naturally want to get all their nutrition needs from food, without needing to take supplements. In part, this is because they want to justify their choices.
If they have to resort to supplements then it suggests something is wrong with the diet. They want their choices to have a sound rational basis, and who can blame them? Read more
The truth about food — how to eat like an ape
Yum
It’s pretty hard to work out what you can and can’t eat these days…
Which is not a good situation given the alarming rise of obesity and chronic illness in the US and UK.
Can eating like an ape improve your health?
Can natural nutrition reverse the effects of modern diets?
The BBC decided to find out and got some volunteers to go “back to nature”…
The “Evo Diet” experiment
Take one zoo enclosure in Devon, England — only meters away from the great apes. Put in some huts and tents. Add 9 people with dangerously high blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Add a dietician prepared ape diet and then simmer for 12 days… Read more
Is GM food safe to eat?
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Few health topics are more hotly debated than the GM food issue and for good reason.
Naturally consumers want to know if GM food is safe to eat.
But it’s not just consumers demanding action on GM food, many scientists are very concerned too…
Many feel GM foods are a time-bomb just waiting to go BANG. And God help us if it does.
In 2002, the Government of Zambia rejected an aid shipment because it contained GM corn. Seems you can’t even give the stuff away! This would be hilarious if it weren’t such a serious subject and lives weren’t at stake…
Scorpion genes in your corn
Do you really want scorpion genes in your corn? GM food is just one aspect of an increasing bleak picture of modern farming based on high yields and profits. The Biotech companies such as Monsanto developing GM foods aren’t doing it for the love of it is my guess… Read more
