February 2012
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The Perfect Health Diet
Paleo-ish Diet focused on a balance of meats, and vegetables, limited fruits and nuts with some dairy (not Paleo). It’s about toxic avoidance!
Food supports your body—but it’s main job is to decrease risk for disease by supporting every system of your body, i.e. immune, cardiovascular, endocrine, etc.
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New Look, New Name
Decided I needed a new look, and a better name for my blog. So Find Your Line has been re-named to Ground Up Health. You know those moments in your life when someone says something, and you are like “THAT’S IT!” Well, leave it to my younger brother to think of the title. The meaning behind the title Ground Up Health stems (pun intended) from the idea that you need to...
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“Exercise begins and ends in the brain.”
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Cardiovascular Disease Statistics and Paleo Diet
The numbers are in, and it’s no surprise that cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the number one preventable cause of death in the US. As of 2008, the overall death rate was 244.8 per 100. In 2008, just over 32% of all deaths in the America were from CVD (which is alittle over 800,000 deaths out of 2.4 million), or 1 in 3 deaths in the US. Coronary heart disease in 2008 accounted...
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Don't Say the Words "Low-Fat," Please
I think the dudes over at Harvard School of Public Health know what they are talking about, and I have to agree with them that we need to avoid the terms “low-fat,” and “reduced-fat.” Here is the recent post. These terms send the message that fat is bad, fat causes you to develop disease but in fact if you find fat from the right sources, like fish and even coconut oil,...
