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Thoughts about Perfect Health Diet book
What are your thoughts about Paul Jaminet and Shou-Ching Jaminet's new book?
Does it offer new insights, or is it more oriented towards the health 'beginners'?
Recently, I bough …
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Should root vegetables really be utterly discounted on the Perfect Health Diet when calculating carb calories?
The Jaminets' Perfect Health Diet recommends 400 calories from carbs a day. They also say that, for the purpose of calculating carb intake under their diet, only calories from tube …
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Can someone find common ground on the newest “safe starch” response?
Ron Rosedale just posted his latest response to the "safe starch" debate. Can anybody find the common ground so we can get back to crushing the real opposition...ADA, Big Pharma, S …
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Safe Starches Debate Continued. What? You thought it was over?
Paul Jaminet responds to Ron Rosedale's rebuttal. Good debate going on here. Thoughts?
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In what context can there be a glucose deficiency? Is infection the real cause? (Ridiculously long.)
Is dietary carbohydrate even necessary at all? In the recent past, this
question wouldn't even be asked. Knowing that the body can manufacture its own
glucose via gluconeogenesis …
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Does anybody follow the Perfect Health Diet?
Does anybody here follow the Perfect Health Diet? Thoughts on it? Sample daily menu? I'm enjoying the book, but 'potato' and 'rice' are still scary words to me. As is the phrase 'o …
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Wait so Wheat Germ Agglutinin is NOT destroyed by dry heat?
I was listening to a podcast with Paul Jaminet and he basically stated that the dry heat processing that's used with many industrial "foods" doesn't actually destroy WGA. I've also …
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more carbs, less carbs for immune health
so jaminet & others say some amount of carbs (glucose) is needed for immune health. we all know that active people need more carbs, and probably even plenty of fructose to stay …
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Perspective on Jaminet on Pork [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Hack this article about the dangers of pork by the Jaminets
Ok, now that the 3rd installment of this series is up, can anyone provide some perspective …
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Does eating potatoes make you cry?
It was all the comments on Jaminet's blog. Does eating VLC result in a mucus deficiency? He says he has many reports of people who have gotten rid of dry eyes when they added car …
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Do fish oil pills cause cancer or cardiac problems?
Paul Jaminet recently discussed the link between high DHA and cancer, which complements his earlier post on the risks of fish oil pills versus eating fish.
http://perfecthealthdie …
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Fat goes down & muscle go up on low-carb, but general health better on higher carb. What to do?
I've been low carb paleo (25/10/65 pro/carb/fat) for a long time (almost 1.5 years now) and I lost about 50 pounds doing it (for a total of 100 pounds of weight loss). I hit a plat …
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paleo, ph, and fungal
hello, just got back my metametrix full GI function stool test results - indicates high levels of yeast/fungus, which coincides with my long term jock itch and athletes foot. (note …