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Blood sugar issues: where to start?

I’m putting on my Nutritional Therapy Practitioner hat today. If you’re consistently tired at 3 o’clock in the afternoon (I call it Liz’s College Crash), that’s a bright, flashing sign that you’re dealing with major, chronic blood sugar imbalance. That is not fun. For anybody. Blood sugar imbalance can seriously screw with your work life, [...]

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Episode #81: Salt, Shakeology, yeast infections, & calorie counting

Did you know? I assault the world weekly with my “external monologue” (which, coincidentally, is no different from my internal monologue) … and, of course, talk nutrition along with New York Times best-selling author Diane Sanfilippo of Balanced Bites! It all happens on the Balanced Bites Podcast. Remember – If you’re enjoying these podcasts, please leave us [...]

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Changing Lives, part 2: meet Steve’s Club athlete Jacob

You should buy PaleoKits this week. With the code cavegirl2013, you can get FREE shipping! Show some love for this phenomenal featured athlete – more details at the end. To read more about my involvement with Steve’s Club and Steve’s Original, click here. Jacob is one of the outstanding young adults of Steve’s Club Camden. [...]

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Watch the ol’ Carbohydrates and Glucose!

“Apple Pie’s just loaded with carbohydrates n’ glucose.” (~30 second video) My favorite show of all time, the Andy Griffith Show (no, I’m not an octegenarian. I’m just a “youngun” with great taste in TV), had a handle on this stuff way back in the sixties. Of course, if this were today, Barney’d watching his [...]

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5 things that’ll make you slightly more perfect (but not obnoxiously so).

I’m not perfect. (I KNOW! Shocking.) I skip workouts. (MANY workouts). I pop zits. Sometimes I watch Vampire Fiction and delight in the antics of churlish New Jersey Housewives. (Sadly, I haven’t had much time for television lately – so I’ve been staging my own little vignettes using finger puppets. I call them “The Real [...]

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Is Bacon Actually BETTER For You?

This post also appears at Steve’s Original, where I serve as Nutrition Advisor! You may be interested to know that before I could begin this post, I had to run to the kitchen and fry up some bacon for a snack. When it comes to well-being, I’m not at 100% until I’ve had a bit [...]

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WAP FTW

Weston A. Price. Weston A. Price. You’re probably wondering if I ever stop talking about Weston A. Price. Look. I have three readers. One is my grandmother. (Hi Gammy!) The other two are spam-bots who leave me awesome comments: What I’m saying is, I can write about whatever I want. And we may be purchasing [...]

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Bruce Fife on Phytates in Coconut

The Godfather of Coconut, Bruce Fife, wrote to the Weston A. Price Foundation’s quarterly journal about the recent rumblings on the Phytic acid content of coconut. Recent talk in the Traditional Food World have suggested that Phytic acid should be a concern for us coconut-lovers. Phytic acid is one of the major downsides to and [...]

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Roundup: Great Links & Caption This!

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Likely the worst day of the week, no? Monday Motivation has worn off and all there is to think about is how to effectively procrastinate, bury, and/or ignore upcoming tasks while still sounding legitimate when lamenting how much “work” you have to do. (Actually, if you’re looking for Monday Motivation to last [...]

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Welcome, RobbWolf & ChrisKresser dot-commers!

The illegitimate Paleo Baby of myself (Liz) and Diane – better known as the Balanced Bites Podcast - has inspired much new traffic to my humble corner of the interwebs! Thank you for your awesome emails, questions, and virtual high-fives! And thanks to Robb and Chris for stopping by our humble podcast to talk Digestion (Chris) [...]

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