Archive for August 2008

Hyperphagia

One of the things I didn't mention in the last post is that Americans are eating more calories than ever before. According to Centers f...

The New York Times just published an article called " The Overflowing American Dinner Plate ", in which they describe changes in t...

If paleolithic people were healthier than us due to their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, why did they have a shorter life expectancy than we do ...

Like 99.9% of the world's population, I am mostly dependent on agriculture for my food. It's fun to pretend sometimes though. I en...

I bumped into a fascinating paper today by Dr. Loren Cordain titled "Plant-Animal Subsistence Ratios and Macronutrient Estimations in ...