Nutrition

The 80/20 rule

Mar 11, 2012 15 Comments by

Fitness guru’s, fanatical diet practitioners, and executive big-wigs love formulas and equations that can help define the undefinable….people. Pretty on paper is rarely beautiful when it counts…..life. In the simplest terms my small mind can comprehend; the 80/20 rule (or Pareto Principle) states that for every event, 80% of the effect, come from 20% of [...]

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5 Muscle tips for the Paleo hardgainer

Mar 04, 2012 19 Comments by

As PCF travels the nation leaving Paleo revolutionaries in its path we are often asked the same questions over and over again. Thankfully, we can look to our past for guidance, helping us shape the future with the answers we give today. One question we have encountered as of late is “I want to get [...]

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Chia seeds and other quasi-grainy issues

Feb 19, 2012 22 Comments

As we continue to paint the landscape the color “Paleo” we typically encounter speed bumps, road blocks, and u-turns that make moving forward more difficult than necessary. Unfortunately, Paleo followers are often the ones creating the obstacles. To incorporate items into the Paleo diet that make it appear more ancient usually means the elimination of [...]

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Deviled Paleo

Dec 27, 2011 16 Comments

To me “deviled” meant using herbs to make food more spicy. Not adding calories. To others it means making food more damaging, regardless if its spicy or not. It seems the widely accepted art of deviling comes into play when you take something blessed, and you make it sinful. Something pure becomes something cursed. Its [...]

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DEDS: A practical approach to living for everything but food

Nov 16, 2011 12 Comments

Often times I pause as I begin each and every post. Sometimes I have clear cut ideas and formulated opinions. Other times, as I’m sure you can tell, my energy is erratic at best, borderline psychotic as my mind moves about much faster than my hands can keep up. Often I know what I want [...]

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Dissecting the sales pitch

Nov 01, 2011 16 Comments

Check out PCF’s 321 GoProject interview. Years ago industry was everything, and everything hinged on manufacturing. That day has passed to give way to the medical revolution. If we are not currently working for a medical institute we are in school to be a nurse, Dr, X-rayer, or foot fixer…simply because we are all jacked [...]

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For my kids and myself: One Mother’s struggle part 2

Oct 12, 2011 13 Comments

A Mother’s love runs deep. Its that love that simultaneously promotes their various sacrifices. Its that love that makes leaving the path of the popular so hard even when the path less traveled is usually the right way to the promise land. Yesterday we learned of ones Mother’s struggle to transfer her newly found paleo [...]

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For my kids and myself: One Mother’s struggle part 1

Oct 11, 2011 23 Comments

Dear Josh, I have been doing a lot of reading on your blog and others about eating paleo. I am loosely following a paleo diet right now. I say loosely because I am still making excuses with myself as to why I can’t give up dairy!! I am also not measuring or counting just trying to eat more fat and [...]

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Can Paleo Eating Jack My Thyroid Part 2…

Sep 01, 2011 16 Comments

   Practice CrossFit Kids, First Pull-up, first hand rip “A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”  Everybody knows someone with a “Thyroid issue”. Today, that poor organ is all but blamed for the holocaust, and medications like Synthroid cloud cabinets like Aspirin did thirty years ago. Conveniently, blaming and treating “thyroid issues” isn’t [...]

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Can Paleo Eating Jack My Thyroid Part 1…

Aug 31, 2011 15 Comments

  Monica…  ”Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.”  Q. Josh, I started eating Paleo during a challenge you presented some time ago. After I started to figure it out I lost 24 pounds eating basically how you describe here frequently. Recently I underwent a yearly check-up with my job and my thyroid [...]

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