Atherosclerosis in Ancient Mummies Revisited

Many of you are already aware of the recent study that examined atherosclerosis in 137 ancient mummies from four different cultures ( 1 ).  ...

Lessons From Ötzi, the Tyrolean Ice Man. Part II

Otzi's Diet Otzi's digestive tract contains the remains of three meals.  They were composed of cooked grains (wheat bread and whea...

Paleo Diet Article in Sound Consumer

I recently wrote an article for my local natural foods grocery store, PCC, about the "Paleolithic" diet.  You can read it online h...

Junk Free January

Last year, Matt Lentzner organized a project called Gluten Free January, in which 546 people from around the world gave up gluten for one mo...

New Ancestral Diet Review Paper

Pedro Carrera-Bastos and his colleagues Maelan Fontes-Villalba, James H. O'Keefe, Staffan Lindeberg and Loren Cordain have published an ...

China Study Problems of Interpretation

The China study was an observational study that collected a massive amount of information about diet and health in 65 different rural region...

In Search of Traditional Asian Diets

It's been difficult for me to find good information on Asian diets prior to modernization. Traditional Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese d...

Lindeberg on Obesity

I'm currently reading Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's magnum opus Food and Western Disease , recently published in English for the first tim...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part IX

A Summary For those who didn't want to wade through the entire nerd safari, I offer a simple summary. Our ancestors had straight teeth, ...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part VIII

Three Case Studies in Occlusion In this post, I'll review three cultures with different degrees of malocclusion over time, and try to ex...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part VII

Jaw Development During Adolescence Beginning at about age 11, the skull undergoes a growth spurt. This corresponds roughly with the growth ...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part VI

Early Postnatal Face and Jaw Development The face and jaws change more from birth to age four than at any other period of development after ...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part V

Prenatal Development of the Face and Jaws The structures of the face and jaws take shape during the first trimester of pregnancy. The 5th t...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part IV

There are three periods during the development of the face and jaws that are uniquely sensitive to environmental influences such as nutritio...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part III

Normal Human Occlusion In 1967, a team of geneticists and anthropologists published an extensive study of a population of Brazilian hunter...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part II

The Nature of the Problem In 1973, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the results of a National Health Survey...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization

In his epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration , Dr. Weston Price documented the abnormal dental development and susceptibility to too...

Ischemic Heart Attacks: Disease of Civilization

Or, more precisely, disease of industrial civilization. The scientific literature contains examples of cultures that don't suffer fro...