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Many of you are already aware of the recent study that examined atherosclerosis in 137 ancient mummies from four different cultures ( 1 ).  ...

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Otzi's Diet Otzi's digestive tract contains the remains of three meals.  They were composed of cooked grains (wheat bread and whea...

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I recently wrote an article for my local natural foods grocery store, PCC, about the "Paleolithic" diet.  You can read it online h...

Labels: diet, diseases of civilization, Kitava, paleolithic diet

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Last year, Matt Lentzner organized a project called Gluten Free January, in which 546 people from around the world gave up gluten for one mo...

Labels: diseases of civilization, gluten

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Pedro Carrera-Bastos and his colleagues Maelan Fontes-Villalba, James H. O'Keefe, Staffan Lindeberg and Loren Cordain have published an ...

Labels: diseases of civilization, paleolithic diet

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Loss of muscle mass is associated with aging. It is also associated with the metabolic syndrome, together with excessive body fat gain. It i...

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The China study was an observational study that collected a massive amount of information about diet and health in 65 different rural region...

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Adiponectin is a hormone exclusively secreted by body fat. This hormone has been recently gaining attention from researchers because of some...

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I'm currently reading Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's magnum opus Food and Western Disease , recently published in English for the first tim...

Labels: diet, disease, diseases of civilization, native diet, paleolithic diet

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Calcidiol is a pre-hormone that is produced based on vitamin D3 in the liver. Blood concentration of calcidiol is considered to be a reliabl...

Labels: depression, diseases of civilization, metabolic syndrome, nutrition, research, vitamin D

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George Hamilton admits that he has been addicted to sunbathing for much of his life. The photo below (from: phoenix.fanster.com), shows him ...

Labels: cancer, depression, diseases of civilization, osteoporosis, research, vitamin D

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A Summary For those who didn't want to wade through the entire nerd safari, I offer a simple summary. Our ancestors had straight teeth, ...

Labels: dental health, diet, diseases of civilization

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Three Case Studies in Occlusion In this post, I'll review three cultures with different degrees of malocclusion over time, and try to ex...

Labels: dental health, diet, diseases of civilization, Masai, native diet

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Jaw Development During Adolescence Beginning at about age 11, the skull undergoes a growth spurt. This corresponds roughly with the growth ...

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Early Postnatal Face and Jaw Development The face and jaws change more from birth to age four than at any other period of development after ...

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Prenatal Development of the Face and Jaws The structures of the face and jaws take shape during the first trimester of pregnancy. The 5th t...

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There are three periods during the development of the face and jaws that are uniquely sensitive to environmental influences such as nutritio...

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Normal Human Occlusion In 1967, a team of geneticists and anthropologists published an extensive study of a population of Brazilian hunter...

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