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If it is number one, what is number two? (besides email and your primary news source)

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I used to, but frankly am disappointed with the quality of some of the Q&A's here. I don't understand how some questions - what is our favorite Paleo comic strip, what is our favorite Paleo song or favorite Paleo quote, whether smoking pot is Paleo - have to do with figuring out how to eat and live well and avoid the traps of industrial foods and industrial ways of living. I also find some of the health claims here wild, at least when written with such confidence and surety - telling people with absolute confidence that if they eat a certain way they will surely live a long and healthy life, that every malady from eye pressure to baldness and many others will be cured. Paleo does not heal every ailment.

To me, Paleo is about eating and living in such a way so as to not damage our bodies with industrial food and other hazards. It's true that when we stop putting damaging crap into our bodies they often do amazing things to heal themselves. If I drink arsenic and then stop drinking arsenic, my health will improve. But that doesn't mean if I start drinking Kool-Aid instead of arsenic the Kool-Aid will "heal" me from anything. It means that stopping drinking dangerous crap was bad for me, and now I will improve. Industrial food is, to a lesser extent, poison to our bodies.

I know I will get blasted and downoted for sharing these thoughts, but it just seems to me some of this is veering into downright silliness.

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I don't think you'll get lambasted, and definitely not banned. The signal-to-noise ratio is one thing, but to me the more interesting point you mentioned is the whole "Just eat paleo, and everything will work out fine" commentary. It bugs me too. Even paleo for prevention purposes wouldn't be 100% effective, so why would paleo for treatment purposes be so cut-and-dry? This has popped up on several threads, and is rarely ever sourced or explained adequately. – Kamal♦ Apr 29 2011 at 17:41
Mybe we've already answered all the good questions... – Dave S. Apr 29 2011 at 18:02
@Kamal, I agree. Especially when Paleo can be customized such an autoimmune version. Also supplements can help someone get back on track to the point where diet can fully take over. – Geoff Apr 29 2011 at 19:59
I see this problem too, to some degree. I think the solution is in the platform. Better / greater / more attentive use of the voting features will help the good Q's & A's to gain prominence. – uep Apr 29 2011 at 21:39
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No, reddit is the internet. There is a subcategory for literally everything from politics to keto to paleo to fitness.

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 +1 here's a karma point! :) – themobiustrip Apr 29 2011 at 15:21
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Yes, I am slightly addicted to Paleohacks.

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Yes (!) and it's kind of come on strong and fast like a bad spring flu. There's a lot of stuff to be learned here and I'm a bit of an information junkie, particularly when it comes to "personal experience testimony" - because i very much prefer to connect my own dots.

I also dig Pinterest, which is purely visual and largely design oriented, also with a random element that I enjoy.

I'm also spying on Seattle's weather through the Space Needles webcam, because we're planning on moving there, and because spying on a city through a webcam makes me feel a bit like a supervillain (my cat never leaves my lap, so why not?)

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Hello to the supervillan :) Spying on the weather? I can answer it for you without thinking: it's going to be slightly overcast, with a decent chance of rain, and if there's sun, everyone rejoices! (yes, I've lived in Seattle my entire life). Then everyone gets cranky because it's too hot in August. Hot being 100 degrees or so... – Jake Apr 30 2011 at 6:50
i see you Jake... – tartare Apr 30 2011 at 13:37
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I have been on here a lot lately. PH is my most visited site on my Chrome homepage, which perpetuates things because I open it up again every time I sit down with my computer before getting to what was actually intended in the first place.

It's getting so bad, that when I'm on other forums I move my mouse to the left of a post looking for a vote button. I think I subconsciously did that on my iTunes yesterday too.

If I start dreaming about PaleoHacks, I'll give myself an intervention.

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On a slow day, it's Paleo Hacks for sure, then Television Without Pity.

On a busy day, it's gmail because I have to at least check my email or it drives me crazy.

I'm also on Livestrong a lot, but not actively, it's always open but once I put in my food I'm done for the day.

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Do you find Livestrong to be slow/buggy for food tracking? I gave up on tracking towards the beginning of starting paleo, but occasionally put in a day's worth of food in various tracking tools. Livestrong seems to be the most comprehensive web-based one, but nutritiondata has way more nutrients. Hold the phone, I think there's a thread about this out there... – Kamal♦ Apr 30 2011 at 2:27
If there is a thread out there, I probably contributed. I use Livestrong because I can have "friends" on it and we can see and comment on each other's food. Once you get used to finding your foods, it's quick and easy, but it's wiki-based so there are lots of weird misspellings and people that only enter the nutrition information they are interested in. I really only care about calories and fat/protein/carb ratios so Livestrong works fine for me. I've used Fitday and Sparkpeople too. – sherpamelissa Apr 30 2011 at 13:58
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No, not really.

Most of my time is spent in my RSS aggregator - Google Reader (where I have feeds for TONS of other health/paleo blogs). Surprisingly, I don't have PH's RSS feed in my reader. Maybe it's because I don't feel I'd get as much out of PH unless I were at the site. And I follow PH on twitter, so I'm apprised of new questions as they happen ;-)

PaleoHacks is probably #2 for me :)

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  1. Gmail

  2. Paleohacks

  3. Facebook

That's somethin! I used to spend alot of time reading and commenting on Gizmodo, but then Gawker changed over to their awful new format, and I rarely look at it anymore. What a mistake.

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 Dude, I stopped reading Gizmodo for the very same reason! – Kamal♦ Apr 29 2011 at 5:09
it really made the site so much less appealing. i almost never look at it anymore, which is a shame, cuz I really loved it. – Futureboy Apr 29 2011 at 5:13
Yeah, who exactly was like "Hey, let's put this giant bar on the right hand side of the page. People will love that!" – Kamal♦ Apr 29 2011 at 5:16
then when all the commenters were up in arms, they just ignored it. I think they were fully ok with losing almost half of their readers. I wonder what the actual traffic losses were. – Futureboy Apr 29 2011 at 5:30
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 "PREFER THE TRADITIONAL BLOG FORMAT?× Switch to the blog view by clicking" @Gizmodo.com, top right corner. – Ikco Apr 29 2011 at 12:54
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My primary website is probably Facebook, but because I have a PH feed on my Facebook page, my next move is to click on over to here. :)

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What I want to know is does anyone use that "flair" thing (see underneath the avatar on your user page)? Apparently there's some little widget you can take and embed on another website -- maybe on Facebook so that everyone can keep track of your PH reputation score or something? I don't think I get it. – Paul Apr 29 2011 at 5:14
I think it's for the bloggers to use on their personal websites, sort of like a link back to the PH mother-ship, and an identification badge. "You know the Jews had flair that the Nazis made them wear..." – Futureboy Apr 29 2011 at 5:18
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 I just assumed it was a link to Chotchkie's. You need a minimum of 15 badges though. – Kamal♦ Apr 29 2011 at 5:19
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 Thanks gentlemen. And fortunately for me I get the references, because that means I've seen a really good movie many times. – Paul Apr 29 2011 at 5:28
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 I would love a non-related forum for this site! – Futureboy Apr 29 2011 at 6:00
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Yes I do!

  1. Paleohacks
  2. Twitter feed hoping for paleohacks updates
  3. Robbwolf.com
  4. Crossfit-related items

I love the constant updates and information on this site.

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facebook wins for me. gmail. rawstory and/or smoking gun is probably third.

im not including google, or LOLZ CAT.

j/k

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 I hope you're not kidding about the lolcat! A while ago, I had a cat picture published on there, and it made my week...icanhascheezburger.com/2010/10/22/… at/ – Kamal♦ Apr 29 2011 at 14:20
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 Kamal. I fear my adoration of you is becoming creepy, but I don't care. You make me smile. <3 – sherpamelissa Apr 30 2011 at 2:18
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 im afraid that i agree with melissa on this one. youre the bees knees, kamal. – being Apr 30 2011 at 17:19
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I have been focusing on this site as it is a mine of Knowledge with a capital 'K'. Other than this the computer serves as a music player and download machine. I have been refining my lifestyle with great assistance form this site and all of its helpful members. If anyone cares to check out my 'routines' I will post them today(....not to say anyone will...)

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