The tale of fat loss supplements

Fat loss supplements have been around for a few years already and, by now, we should know which ones actually work or not. In this regard, it seems that a lot of ”experts” know what you should take to lose weight. For instance, if you go to your local supplement shop, they will make sure to point you out the newest and best fat burner. Their selling speech is always the same : ”I have ”lots of clients” who tried it and lost weight, you should try it out too!”. Also, if you go on fitness forums, rest assured that online experts will educate you on which one you should take. After all these years of fat loss supplementation, can we really say they work?

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Fruit: its role within the paleolithic diet

Poison?

Yesterday, I explained why I believe that the paleolithic diet is the best diet tool we have access to. I also talked about how there are unresolved debates within the paleo community. I already covered one of them in the past (dairy). Let’s try to replicate this process with fruits. What do the experts think about them? Are they healthy or not ? Is the sugar content something we should worry about? How many of them should we eat in a day? What is my personal stance on fruits? We will try to address all those concerns today and hopefully resolve this conflict.

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What’s with all the ”superfoods” ?

When you think about it, it is actually ironic. We live in an era where more and more people don’t believe in anything and where people are getting individualistic. Indeed, in most industrial societies, religion is getting less and less popular. Miracles, magic, and even traditions are not the base of our lifestyle anymore. Some of us even don’t care about it at all anymore. Yet, we contradict ourselves when we choose to believe that superfoods exist. Read more of this post

Dairy is probably not a bad choice afterall

Dairy : Healthy or not?

When it comes to dairy, I find it hard to advise for or against it. On one hand, most strict paleo eaters avoid it like it’s plague. It was not available to our ancestors until the domestication of cows, so we should not eat dairy. Most of us are simply not genetically adapted to consume it. On the other hand, some embrace raw full fat dairy. Some of them are influenced by the Weston A. Price Foundation. The WAPF states that dairy played an important part in most traditional cultures. Others refer to Masai to claim that dairy is healthy. The diet of Masai is a mix of blood, milk, meat and animal fats. It’s hard to make a choice because both sides have good arguments. Anyhow, let’s take a look at why you should – or should not – eat dairy.

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Researchers say that our tongue can detect fat taste

We know that the human tongue can detect five tastes : sweet, sour, bitter, salt and umami. According to researchers of Deakin University, there would be a 6th taste that was previously unidentified – fat. They tested a group of people and ranked them as hypo or hypersensitive to fat. Based on their results, humans who are hypersensitive to fat are associated with lower BMI and energy intake (lower oral fat intake). They published their results in the British Journal of Nutrition (look for the study called oral sensitivity to fatty acids, food consumption and BMI in human subjects) in March 2010. Local journalists as well as other journalists all over the world believe that this is could cure obesity. All we have to do is make people hypersensitive to fat and they will subsequently reduce their fat intake. But, is this really what we want?

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