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Tag Archives: diet
What should we eat? A cacophany of advice
Many people want to know what and how they should eat to lose weight, improve their health, avoid illness, live forever, or for any number of other reasons. One popular source of information are books relating to food, diets, and nutrition. However, there … Continue reading
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Hippocratic misquotations: Let thy quotations not be by Hippocrates
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates. This is perhaps one of the best-known quotes on diet and health attributed to Hippocrates, the physician in Ancient Greece considered to be the father of medicine. Only it … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, Food, health, hippocrates, History, let food be thy medicine, let your food be your medicine, medicine, Nutrition, quotation, quote
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Evolving salt: Did humans evolve on a high salt diet?
Recently I was reading some of a new book called “The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got it All Wrong and How Eating More Might Save Your Life”. This contains the interesting claim that humans evolved on a diet high … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, DiNicolantonio, evolution, Nutrition, salt, saltfix, sodium, thesaltfix
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Diet and Nutrition of the Lion
Do lions eat the organs of their prey, or can a lion survive only on muscle meat? I’ve seen this question asked online but clear answers are hard to find, at least not answers with sources backing them up. In … Continue reading
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Tagged carnivore, carnivorediet, diet, liondiet, lions, Nutrition, offal, organmeat
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