Today I got fed up with hearing people at work suggest that adding something like bacon, butter, or dressing suddenly made "healthy" foods "unhealthy." As if to suggest that the he …

I often eat shrimp with the shells and tails on. A friend who owns a fish market turned me on to it... Lots of great flavor there and its a common practice in several cultures. A …

Omega-3 to Omega-6? Vitamin A to Vitamin D? Zinc/Iron to Copper? Honestly, the only thing I try to balance is my o3 and o6. I don't pay much attention to my micronutrient ratios. …

I know Brazil nuts are high in selenium, and an ounce (roughly half a dozen) provides 800 micrograms. That's about double the U.S. recommended tolerable upper limit. What are othe …

I am interested in gathering and crunching some numbers about the SPD - standard paleo diet. I know there really isn't one, but so much has been bandied about regarding MACROs I wo …

Is it possible that a person eating the SAD encounters such a terrible nutrient density that their overall appetite is increased because a greater volume of food is needed to meet …

I've just started using Cron-o-meter. I want to track my micro's to see if I should be supplementing as I'm dairy/grain/cruciferous veggie free and afraid I might be missing somet …

Ok, decided to finally cut the dairy and seem to have become hypotensive. Thought it could be postural/orthostatic hypotension, but it seems to be constant! Blood pressure is usua …

Some of the answers to this paleohacks question http://paleohacks.com/questions/77024/creaky-knees-night-blindness-what-am-i-missing/ got me thinking about night blindness. Have yo …

Recently I asked a question about what veggies to eat with breakfast… and a lot of people said tomatoes and mushrooms, neither of which are vegetables, and that got me thinking… I …

For those of us who work long hours and still manage to get in a workout every day, making the effort to get enough micronutrients without supplementation is often a real pain. …

This came to mind while I was cleaning the first greens from my CSA. A couple ants were hiding in the leaves, and I mumbled "go away I don't want protein on my lettuce!". It got me …

I am wondering if anyone has access to studies that analyze actual food portions from hunter-gatherer populations living today, and the micronutrient amounts in those diets. Just t …