most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-25T21:19:30Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/user/9943 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/73894/how-many-people-who-prepare-meals-in-advance-by-dicing-or-slicing-worry-about-bac Christopher 2011-10-31T18:10:06Z 2011-11-01T02:39:19Z

<p>After thinking about another question asked here on this site about fixing paleo food in a blender then storing it in the fridge, I became curious about what people think about bacterial growth on foods that have been handled a lot by opening up a whole veggie or chunk of meat and increasing it's surface area and exposing it to air thusly inviting bacteria to grow faster.</p> <p>Don't get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with cubing meat and dicing veggies as long as it is done shortly before it is served. My question is do you think this poses a problem with raw foods that are sliced and diced then set aside or put in the fridge for later use as it pertains to the paleo eating community. </p> <p>It just seems like it would be specifically imoprtant for people who like raw(er) food.</p> <p>Has anyone ran into a problem with this?</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73907/would-we-be-healthier-if-we-lived-outside/73914#73914 Christopher 2011-10-31T19:11:14Z 2011-10-31T19:11:14Z

<p>I think it comes down to how and where you live rather than indoor or outdoor.</p> <p>If you live outside next to a stagnant pond you might not do as well as indoors in a house built on a mountaintop.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73905/is-it-healthier-to-sleep-with-mouth-open-or-closed/73906#73906 Christopher 2011-10-31T18:57:51Z 2011-10-31T18:57:51Z

<p>I don't know how this relates to paleo but I don't think people have much choice, barring a jaw restraints, once they go to sleep as to if their mouth is open or shut.</p> <p>I try to sleep with my mouth closed, you never know what someone will try to put in it.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73827/hack-my-nightshade-free-bone-broth-soup/73904#73904 Christopher 2011-10-31T18:51:39Z 2011-10-31T18:51:39Z

<p>you could always add uncooked eggs and let it noodle up in the boiling broth.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73862/a-master-shake-for-everything/73865#73865 Christopher 2011-10-31T16:22:20Z 2011-10-31T16:22:20Z

<p>Biologically speaking, people have been made to eat more than slurp. I know that saliva from chewing things that traditionally need to be chewed plays a big role somehow yet, all the food you eat gets mixed together in your stomach anyway.</p> <p>Breaking food down to micro particals aids in absorption so you may need to consume less at one time to absorb the same amount if blended. </p> <p>I also wouldn't leave any pre-made and processed food in the fridge for later use unless it was super cooked to destroy any bacteria in that rich environmental soup thusly it would have the fresh, nutrient richness cooked right out of it and kinda ruining the whole idea.</p> <p>A one stop paleo solution might sound good but it also sounds like the same thing as over cooked processed food from a factory without the chemicals used to reduce bad bacteria and make people sick. </p> <p>I guess you could call the idea sort of like some beers "industrial food light"</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73702/can-your-erection-quality-quantity-frequency-best-predict-cardiovascular-disease/73860#73860 Christopher 2011-10-31T15:56:19Z 2011-10-31T15:56:19Z

<p>I can't really tell how it applies to paleo eating at the moment. My penis is on an unscheduled meat fast diet right now. Although, I would think that erection problems could be caused by arterial disease, it can be cause by many other things also. Needless to say, if my penis wouldn't work for some reason I would probably think I had all kinds of problems and would try to do my best to eliminate possibilities with the most likely first. Statistically, that would be starting with psychological problems first.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73764/hack-paleo-dating/73855#73855 Christopher 2011-10-31T15:29:14Z 2011-10-31T15:37:38Z

<p>GROK met women in person back in the old days. Sterotypically, he met them with a club and not at a club. Also, he got a chance to evaluate indicators such as hygeine and odor before he would commit to anything else including weeks of chat conversation. You can't tell some things over the internet. You can smell things like diabetes and infection sometimes in a person who isn't smothered in perfume.</p> <p>Just joking about clubs, I think Grok was probably quite nice to women actually seeing as how all they had to do was walk away and there was no officer to file a missing persons report or internet to track them down.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73804/28-eggs-in-a-week/73853#73853 Christopher 2011-10-31T15:11:10Z 2011-10-31T15:11:10Z

<p>One of the ways I beat the egg hum drum was to boil beef or chicken stock broth, add some pepper and crack a couple eggs into it. It boils into a stringy goodness almost like noodles.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73775/ways-to-make-unhealthy-food-seem-less-appetizing/73851#73851 Christopher 2011-10-31T15:06:21Z 2011-10-31T15:06:21Z

<p>One of the ways I made junk food or processed food seem less appetizing was to look up the ingredients on the lable and their possible health problems before actually trying to put it in my mouth.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73828/what-would-be-a-good-paleo-tattoo/73849#73849 Christopher 2011-10-31T14:46:43Z 2011-10-31T14:46:43Z

<p>How about a Bison or giant stag with a human bite mark or spear on its hind quarter?</p> <p>If going for ancient authenticity, I would think it should be something that looks like it happened by accident since the first probable tattoo was a accident involving ash or plant pigment that was on a hand when it was gouged by something sharp or jagged. </p> <p>I believe it was the iceman Otzi who had a series of dots and lines tattooed on his lower back and back of knees. A lot of ancient tattoos found on preserved skin were around the joints of the body and some believe it was a way to try and manage pain or inflamation, perhaps with a medicine man's ritualistic flair for ceremony.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/5720/how-many-people-here-started-as-vegetarian-vegans/73606#73606 Christopher 2011-10-30T03:29:29Z 2011-10-30T03:29:29Z

<p>This is only my opinion, so take it for what it's worth. I tried to be a vegitarian for about six months when I was in my 20's due to all the veggie propaganda about how eating meat isn't as healthy and makes one a lower life form if you eat animals.</p> <p>The more weight I gained, the more wheat and tubers I consumed. All the government data and the vegetarian scene encouraged me to try harder. I actually had a vegan friend tell me that all I was lacking was will power. I became hungry all the time, consuming more at once to not be hungry. I was led to believe that since it was healthy grain, veggies, fruit and tubers, I could eat more and still lose weight being a vegetarian. </p> <p>Then my doctor, who didn't know I was a vegitarian, told me after seeing my weight gain that I needed to follow a low fat, high vegetable diet rich in grains and fiber. The look on his face when I said I'd been a vegetarian for almost 6 months was priceless.</p> <p>One day, near the end of my vegetarianism, I was looking at satellite photos of the world. I noticed that the destruction of animal habitats and wildlife demise came from the advance of agricultural development more than urban sprawl or timbering. I started researching it for about a week.</p> <p>The area of land needed to grow food for cities is much larger in area than the city itself. This causes animal wildlife to fall. Not to mention the amount of other problems modern agriculture brings such as pesticides on the food and contaminated groundwater and most don't know that the use of oil to make fertilizer has been the norm since the 1960's.</p> <p>I started reading about the things I noticed and found that livestock is raised on healthier soil than agricultural land after a year of use and nutrition wise, meat can be raised on land that is hard to grow veggies on due to rough terraine or semi-forestation.</p> <p>Once I thought about it, there's probably a lot more cows, chickens, pigs and other animals on earth than there would be due to raising livestock than if the world became vegetarian. Yeah, we eat them, but I bet there are more because we raise theme for food than if left to a totally agrarian based diet, livestock would probably be killed for eating the agricultural plants since their natural habitat would be gone. </p> <p>I mean, it's kind of ironic to think that most vegetarians are animal rights activists and they buy food from farmers that kill wild animals like birds, rabbits and deer to keep them from eating the produce. I guess its ok to shoot, poison or take away an animals wild land for vegetable production but shoot a deer for food or clothing and the vegans will riot. </p> <p>I apologize for the rant but I am still kind of sore over the vegetarian/vegan propaganda that ruined my weight and health in just 6 months of time. I'm sure some people lose weight on a vegan diet but I also think it is more through malnutrition than being nurtitionally balanced without supplements. Let me just say, it is a vegetarians right to choose the food they eat although a plant is a living thing also and if some say that plants talk to them or that plants respond to music or communicate with each other then wouldn't it be just as wrong to eat them as most vegetarians say it is to eat an cow? We compete for air with cows, plants give it to us!</p> <p>It was in the light of personal experience with vegetarianism that I began to search for other ways to be healthier.</p> <p>It was an unrelated search on google for the word CAVEMAN that took me to a paleo diet site a couple of years ago and it made a lot of sense so I tried it. I lost about 140 pounds through paleo dieting and mild exercise in about 18 months. That included a short term relaps to things like pasta when I got married and a non-paleo eater moved in. At the time, I was just trying to fit in with her and didn't want to push my diet on her just to make the grocery bill and shopping easier. After explaining it to her in more detail, she was willing to try it to for a month. We have been happy campers ever since while sticking to the paleo-diet. </p> <p>Again, sorry for this post being so long. I have issues when it comes to being a former veg head.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/52353/non-africans-found-to-be-part-neanderthal-what-does-that-mean-for-certain-genome/73567#73567 Christopher 2011-10-29T21:46:01Z 2011-10-29T21:46:01Z

<p>I would think 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal in most Modern Human DNA would be enough to make some differences since we don't know what the vast majority of the human genome does specifically. </p> <p>Since the overall difference between the chimpanzee and Human genome is only about 3 percent in total and seeing as how just minute differences of a percent in the human genome give us the visible differences in eye, hair and skin color, height, skeletal formation and also, ability to taste different substances and food and chemical intolerances among people of different regions I would imagine that some of the things we consider human already are actually Neanderthal in origin in some of the population. </p> <p>One interesting thing is that people have the most variation in visible traits alone, amongst themselves and Sub-Saharan Africans, in areas where we interacted with neanderthals the longest i.e.- Southern Europe and the Middle East. I've heard some suggest that red hair and green eyes come from Neanderthals but then I also heard it comes from evil space lizards doing nasty chemistry with the Sumerians.</p> <p>I suspect the question of What made us human as a whole will never be fully answered without the time machines of evil space lizards and a full blooded Sumerian that can use the technology.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/50410/hack-my-wifes-vagina/73358#73358 Christopher 2011-10-28T19:27:40Z 2011-10-28T19:27:40Z

<p>I would be willing to wager that the dietary substance called LECITHIN plays strongly here in this equation. It is found mostly concentrated in meats and eggs. It helps both men and women with body functions that require lubrication (women's vagina, men's cowper's gland and joints). For those of you that don't know what a cowper's gland is, it is the gland in males that produces pre-ejaculate, you know, everything but the sperm which is why some males take massive amounts of the supplement in the hopes of a flood Noah would be proud of.</p> <p>Lecithin can also be found in plants such as soy beans (yuk) and as a dietary supplement at the pharmacy.</p> <p>Again, the subatance is called Lecithin and may help reduce a parched vagina's thirst.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/26643/a-question-concerning-hairy-legs-armpits-for-women-in-particular-and-guys-too/73331#73331 Christopher 2011-10-28T17:51:53Z 2011-10-28T17:51:53Z

<p>I am an almost 40 year old male. When younger and full of social pressure from peers, I was attracted to shaved women. Thinking it was dirty, unkept and anti-social for a woman to be otherwise. I feared friends comments if the girl I was with had the slightest hint of stubble. I now can't imagine the fear a shaving woman with stubble has daily of just the rude comments they might get from their peers.</p> <p>Around the time I was 34 I had been in a couple relationships and saw what women go through to be hairless. I also had learned that unkept women stink, hair or not. I also realized that, from a hygein standpoint, if it were unhygenic that either I should go hairless or live a double standard by making my wife put up with my hair while still demanding hairless perfection from her. All this, not to mention the expense of lady razors that wear out 5 times as fast as men's from all the shaving they do. </p> <p>Another thing I noticed upon close stubble observation is that some women are just as hariy as the hairiest men; I mean hair everywhere you can imagine, in all the same places as men and while most pubescent boys are proud of getting that first sign of adult hair, girls are told to fear it and spend the large majority of their adult life hiding it while manly men get to do nothing but embrace it. In the end, it is the way our "creator" made us to be, both in men and women. Some hairier, some less but all of us who are healthy have it. </p> <p>It is one thing to keep hair neat,clean and trim to task and to be proud of it but an entirely different thing to be so ashamed of who we are or who others tell us we have to be that we feel we have to erase contrary evidence all together.</p> <p>I know all too well the evidence of the history of making shaving a widespead norm by razor companies in the early 1900's. I also know that most ugly shaven women love the chance to rip on a beautiful unshaven woman simply because they have hair where society say's they shouldn't. I would rather choose to see that a woman simply has everything nature dictates, some men may not, but I often wonder if they just want the illusion of having a prepubescent girl. </p> <p>If people shaved all their hair, we wouldn't be able to recognize the OCD hair pullers that suggest deeper mental issues. This is the same as being blind yet able to smell the stinky person you would rather pass up! Smells and unclean, unkept hair are indicators of other, deeper issues. I would much rather have all of a potential mates indicators there for me before I find out the hard way. How one keeps their hair is just one of many indicators. </p> <p>In fact, a person who insists on eradicating or masking their indicators would tell me a lot about them. No way around it, if a person insists on tons of makeup, nose numbing perfume, surgery or hair removal from 95 percent of their body it tells me they must be trying to hide something and fool people. More to the point, fool me!</p> <p>To wrap this up, I told my wife she could stop shaving if and when she wanted to. The first year it was just in the winter time, now she is more comfortable and secure. She knows I love her just the way she was made, that I would take up for her is someone ever said anything ( which hasn't happend yet) and she actually thanked me after the verdict was in over time.</p> <p>I think if a person feels they must do something they'd rather not do to keep or please another, they should have tried being themselves before choosing the crowd or person they want to be around. If you like doing something to please another that is ok until you can't or don't want to anymore while those around you become cold to you for stopping. </p> <p>I guess it all comes down to personal choice and those you want to attract by your choices.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73894/how-many-people-who-prepare-meals-in-advance-by-dicing-or-slicing-worry-about-bac/73990#73990 Christopher 2011-11-01T14:53:12Z 2011-11-01T14:53:12Z

I also heard that the food poisoning in commercial veggies comes not from how they were grown or the veggies themselves but in almost all cases I've heard of, that had an identifiable source, it was the fertilizer used. More to the point it was sprayed or tossed over the veggies instead of being worked into the ground before planting.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73894/how-many-people-who-prepare-meals-in-advance-by-dicing-or-slicing-worry-about-bac Christopher 2011-11-01T14:44:09Z 2011-11-01T14:44:09Z

All the answers have been helpful, each contributed to answereing my question. I guess as long as you keep your instruments clean and don't store things with a high sugar/starch content for too long it all works out fine. The cases of food poisoning here came from store bought or restaurant food that probably was smothered with a thickener or sugars. I will continue to slice and dice right before serving but I won't worry as much about leftovers if fixed paleo or not big box store bought food.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73894/how-many-people-who-prepare-meals-in-advance-by-dicing-or-slicing-worry-about-bac/73990#73990 Christopher 2011-11-01T14:32:32Z 2011-11-01T14:32:32Z

I'm beginning to get the picture that the problem with food going bad quiclky is more related to foods with high starch or sugar content when it comes to going bad from common outdoor bacteria. i.e.- veggies or meat go bad faster when smothered in what restaurants consider starchy or sweet sauces and thickeners. Sliced and diced may last considerably longer without the sugars and starch added.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73905/is-it-healthier-to-sleep-with-mouth-open-or-closed/73906#73906 Christopher 2011-11-01T14:14:06Z 2011-11-01T14:14:06Z

I mean I eat paleo, is it appropriate for me to ask questions about widowdressings here?

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73905/is-it-healthier-to-sleep-with-mouth-open-or-closed/73906#73906 Christopher 2011-11-01T14:04:25Z 2011-11-01T14:04:25Z

All in all, I'm only stating my opinion and you only yours. With your logic, anything could be justified as paleo and if that is so, how are you only ok with this question as long as they are eating paleo?

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73894/how-many-people-who-prepare-meals-in-advance-by-dicing-or-slicing-worry-about-bac/73898#73898 Christopher 2011-10-31T19:45:02Z 2011-10-31T19:45:02Z

I think using clean utensils and surfaces like you stated is the key. I guess I should have added in my question that I was talking more about long term storage of a week or more. If I don't use immediately, I freeze whole.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73903/do-pets-help-healthy-living/73920#73920 Christopher 2011-10-31T19:38:17Z 2011-10-31T19:38:17Z

I think the animal energy you perceive to affect you has more to do with the owner/observer of the animal than the animal itself. I have a cat, love my cat and now I have to break it to him that his negative energy is bringing me down. bummer... If cats were as hard to access and romanticized as dolphins, it might be more uplifting to swim with them. Just trim their claws first

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73905/is-it-healthier-to-sleep-with-mouth-open-or-closed/73906#73906 Christopher 2011-10-31T19:25:45Z 2011-10-31T19:25:45Z

I think because we are supposed to ask questions that are specific to paleo people. I could ask this question in any health forum.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73905/is-it-healthier-to-sleep-with-mouth-open-or-closed/73906#73906 Christopher 2011-10-31T19:07:32Z 2011-10-31T19:07:32Z

it is a natural function in most people when something goes wrong while you're sleeping i.e.- dry mouth, feather going in your mouth, frisky significant other, that you lick youe lips, cough, gag and then everything returns to normal and you continue sleeping.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73894/how-many-people-who-prepare-meals-in-advance-by-dicing-or-slicing-worry-about-bac/73898#73898 Christopher 2011-10-31T18:31:45Z 2011-10-31T18:31:45Z

I'm glad you mentioned your experience with food poisioning being from veggies. There are still many people who worry and meticulously clean before and after preparing meat but not veggies.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73804/28-eggs-in-a-week/73853#73853 Christopher 2011-10-31T17:30:55Z 2011-10-31T17:30:55Z

now that I think about it, it is kind of like paleo-Ramen noodles.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73862/a-master-shake-for-everything/73869#73869 Christopher 2011-10-31T17:14:00Z 2011-10-31T17:14:00Z

wouldn't eating something before a nutricionally balanced and proportioned shake be like eating more just to curb hunger, adding more calories than you need?

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73862/a-master-shake-for-everything/73865#73865 Christopher 2011-10-31T17:07:27Z 2011-10-31T17:07:27Z

yeah, diced onions taste great, day old diced onions, ehh, no ser mucha

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73862/a-master-shake-for-everything/73865#73865 Christopher 2011-10-31T17:06:19Z 2011-10-31T17:06:19Z

one other thing, the more you process food, the more bacteria you introduce to it.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/73862/a-master-shake-for-everything/73865#73865 Christopher 2011-10-31T16:58:19Z 2011-10-31T16:58:19Z

Anything shredded or minced increases it's surface area tremendously and exposes it to air and microrganisms. That's why meat and veggies usually rot or grow bacteria from the outside in. It increases the area in which bacteria thrive. Cooked is better than raw for this reason but the amount of bacteria grows faster on things that have a larger surface area of the things it likes to eat which is why you can cut bad meat out of a whole roast but getting it out of shredded beef is next to impossible.