Is Chewing Gum Paleo?

Remember ‘nothing in a wrapper’? Most types have so many additives, I wouldn’t recommend touching them with a ten foot pole.  Even if you’re not remotely Paleo, the mere fact that most chewing gums are little bursts of chemicals and don’t have any nutritional value, I can’t say there’s really any good reason to chew […]

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Did Cavemen Use Soap?

Hmmm.. probably not, but that doesn’t mean we should follow suit in this instance! We think about Paleo eating and Paleo moving, but how many of us think about Paleo bathing? In other words, are the products we use on our hair and bodies Paleo?   Given my penchant for a nice Decleor facial and […]

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The Power of Peppermint Oil

I had food poisoning about a month ago.  It was awful, fast acting and after vomiting profusely several hours after I ate some chicken that I knew afterwards wasn’t quite right, I was more or less out of commission for over 24 hours. The next day was spend lying on the coach and taking my […]

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Fried Chicken Revisited?

Wait a sec…how can deep-fried anything be Paleo?   In particular, fried chicken, which would traditionally have any number of different batters and/or coatings applied to it, none of which are remotely Paleo, before being drenched in a vat of scorching hot, refined oil, seems far from a likely candidate to become Paleoized. Let’s begin […]

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