most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-23T15:44:37Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/user/363 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/66609/freeze-less-on-paleo/66626#66626 mtts 2011-09-22T12:45:47Z 2011-09-22T12:45:47Z

<p>Did you start excercising more? Muscle tissue keeps you warmer than fat tissue</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/46185/have-you-become-sensitive-to-msg-since-going-paleo/61981#61981 mtts 2011-09-01T06:13:08Z 2011-09-01T06:13:08Z

<p>You guys do know MSG is simply glutamate, right? Which is a compound naturally occuring in all meat (and tomatoes and cheese too) that is apparently so important to our survival we have special receptors on our tongue to detect it?</p> <p>I'm sure Chinese take away or terra chips or what have you can cause all sorts of symptoms, but they're due to some of the other processed junk that's in there. Glutamate is perfectly fine, paleo or otherwise.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/4167/specific-exercise-regimen/4231#4231 mtts 2010-05-05T18:01:43Z 2010-05-05T18:01:43Z

<p>From what I gather on the internet some strength training, a lot of walking / cycling and occasional sprinting is the canonical "paleo" excercise regimen.</p> <p>So I do something like that.</p> <p>Half an hour of weight training a week,</p> <p>One or two (ok, one, usually) tabata sprints (look them up - they take all of five minutes but really wear you out)</p> <p>And a long walk or two.</p> <p>I'm not big, strong and muscular, of course, but healthy enough and can run a short distance or lift an occasional heavy object when the need arises.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/121/best-starting-offal/2726#2726 mtts 2010-03-27T18:33:33Z 2010-03-27T18:33:33Z

<p>The drawback to the blood sausage that is mentioned here several times is that it contains lots of wheat flour (or, alternatively, ground oatmeal) to hold it together. Not exactly paleo.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/2156/what-is-the-weirdest-paleo-food-you-have-ever-eaten/2692#2692 mtts 2010-03-26T22:37:26Z 2010-03-26T22:37:26Z

<p>Being a sissy, I skipped dog meat (family issues) but bat and forest rat made it and from eating them I've learned why they're not staples anymore. Not only is the taste excessively earthy to a refined palate like mine, there's also very little meat on them so given the choice between spending a tiresome day clubbing forest rats and a few hours spearing a sizable bovine of some sort, I know which would be the sensible choice for a paleo hunter who values his time.</p> <p>In "How the mind works" Stephen Pinker suggest that this is exactly how food taboos against small rodents, insects and, possibly, shell fish came about: they're just not worth the effort.</p> <p>Unless you're really, really hungry.</p> <p>Or unless it's really, really tasty, I guess. If you can get over the idea that you're eating something that has an inordinate number of frighteningly segmented legs, fried grasshoppers are actually quite a decent snack food. Kind of reminded me of the small dried fish they eat in SE Asia.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/1435/what-is-the-best-way-to-re-populate-the-gut-with-beneficial-flora/1543#1543 mtts 2010-03-07T22:20:05Z 2010-03-07T22:20:05Z

<p>The problem with probiotics is that you ingest them orally. This means they have to pass through the stomach, the acidity of which probably kills the bacteria before they get to your gut where they can conceivably do some good.</p> <p>Getting good flora in your gut is more complicated than simply eating or drinking something with bacteria in it.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/1394/how-to-tell-if-ground-meat-has-filler/1542#1542 mtts 2010-03-07T22:12:30Z 2010-03-07T22:12:30Z

<p>Actually, "don't eat it" <em>is</em> the answer. The reason is ground meat is in fact garbage, a mix of stuff that's otherwise unsellable, left in possibly unsanitary conditions until there was enough of it to make ground meat from. People get food poisoning from ground meat, not from steak or cutlets (usually) and that's for a reason: bacteria accumulate on the surface of meats, not on the insides but in ground meat they disperse throughout the product.</p> <p>So it's not "filler" I'd worry about (factory produced ground meat is probably fatty western meat mixed with fat free - and probably otherwise inedible - meat from, say, Botswana - not in itself a toxic mix) but the way it was made.</p> <p>Unfortunately, grinding meat is not something you can do yourself unless you own specialized equipment (a blender or a food processor turns meat into a pulp, which is quite different from grinding it). Until you can, it's probably best to avoid it. Even grass fed organic meat makes for pretty unsavory ground meat if it's produced in unsanitary conditions (and it usually is).</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/1526/safety-of-rare-or-raw-meat-and-organs/1539#1539 mtts 2010-03-07T21:50:10Z 2010-03-07T21:50:10Z

<p>From what I've heard from a biologist friend of mine, raw meat is usually fine unless it's spoilt and bacteria have been given the chance to pump all sorts of toxins into it, in which case even cooking it won't help you.</p> <p>Also, bacteria tend to gather on the outside of pieces of meat, not the insides. So I guess if you wash your meat and maybe cut off the outside bits, you should be ok.</p> <p>(As a corollary to this, it's probably wise to be suspicious of pre-ground beef and pork)</p> <p>There's some risk with parasites in pork, but it's rare. As in really, vanishingly rare. On the other hand, raw-ish pork just isn't very tasty, so it's probably a good bet to just cook it through and through. YMMV.</p> <p>Chicken of poor quality may have (possibly contaminated) water injected into it to add to its weight, so that's a good reason not to eat it raw (the solution: eat organic or other higher quality chicken, if eating chicken is something you must do. Chicken that's soft enough to eat raw is also supremely tasteless and chicken that does in fact have taste is so old it should be softened by extensive cooking before you can digest it).</p> <p>Organ meats: cooking liver or kidney through and through is criminal. It's a surefire way to turn what should be a soft, tasty cut of meat into something truly mealy and dry. Besides, any problems these organ meats can cause (because of the toxins that can be stored in them) aren't solved by cooking anyway. So just sear them, quickly, and enjoy them, and if you're concerned about what toxins industrial farming may have put in them, go for grass fed and organic.</p> <p>Finally: note you don't have to cook meat through and through for it to be tasty. There are optimal temperatures where meat is easily digestible yet still succulent and juicy. Those temperatures range between 53 degrees centigrade and 60 degrees centigrade and if you have an oven, you can easily attain those temperatures throughout the entire cut with very little effort or skill (you can sear your meat in a pan afterwards if you like the taste of that). Those are temperatures most bacteria that could cause trouble don't particularly like to be exposed to.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/46185/have-you-become-sensitive-to-msg-since-going-paleo/61981#61981 mtts 2011-09-01T09:39:47Z 2011-09-01T09:39:47Z

It's a salt, correct. My bad. The connection between MSG and ill health effects is not &quot;controversial&quot; at all, it simply doesn't (seem to) exist. Check the literature (start at Wikipedia, for example). Like you, I get funny symptoms when eating MSG-rich Chinese takeaway (you can tell it's in there when they use too much - it tastes foul), but I don't get them when eating parmezan cheese (those crystal thingies in parmezan are pure MSG) so I figure it's probably something else in the takeaway that's causing the symptoms. Like salt, sugar, nasty veggie oil or whatever.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/11021/why-do-northern-europeans-do-so-well-on-grains-and-dairy/11034#11034 mtts 2011-09-01T09:25:18Z 2011-09-01T09:25:18Z

The details are off, I think (infant mortality in Holland is higher than in the rest of the Western world, universal suffrage wasn't introduced until 1917 and the gap between rich and poor was fairly steep until the early 20th century) but since WWII the income gap has indeed narrowed significantly and overall wealth has increased tremendously.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/10840/what-are-the-smartest-anti-paleo-arguments-and-our-responses-to-them/10867#10867 mtts 2011-09-01T06:28:02Z 2011-09-01T06:28:02Z

@ Namby Pamby Jul 16 at 15:20 : that genetic mutation would be weeding out all the people who weren't strong enough to survive the terrible fighting and subsequent starvation that occured on Okinawa in WWII.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/10840/what-are-the-smartest-anti-paleo-arguments-and-our-responses-to-them/10867#10867 mtts 2011-09-01T06:26:22Z 2011-09-01T06:26:22Z

The problem with looking to Okinawa for clues about longevity is that it suffered terribly during WWII with massive fighting and subsequent starvation and that as a result the centenarians there would have been the absolute strongest members of the Okinawan population in 1944. This skews the picture tremendously. The same holds true for Crete (another oft-quoted example of an extremely healthy society). Sardinia I'm not sure about in this respect, but what I do know is the terrain is rough, necessitating an active lifestyle, which will probably have something to do with it.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/1484/how-did-grok-deal-with-bo/1495#1495 mtts 2010-03-07T22:02:28Z 2010-03-07T22:02:28Z

I'm quite actively allergic to deodorant. Slap some on and the lymph nodes in my armpit start to explode. And I'm not otherwise allergic to anything at all. I also don't have too much BO, unless I exercise, in which case I just take a shower.