Monthly Archives: September 2011

Fire and Why We Exist.

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

Richard Wrangham. 2009. Catching Fire: How cooking made us human.   I’ve always loved creation myths.  How we came to be is a question all cultures ask.  The Iroquois believed we were created by the Sky People. The Australian Aborigines … Continue reading →

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Getting in Touch With Your Inner Neanderthal: The 10,000 Year Explosion

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Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. 2009. The 10,000 Year Explosion. How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution.  This book makes the astounding claim that our evolution has sped up 100 times faster in the past 10,000 years than the previous six million … Continue reading →

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Look Before You Eat – the history of Food Cheating

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Bee Wilson. 2008. Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats. If you’re looking for a way to lose weight, many of the hideous and frightening examples of food adulteration in this book … Continue reading →

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Vitamin Pills Don’t Work

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Below are some of the major studies done to test the efficacy of vitamin pills over many years, with hundreds of thousands of people. There were no positive effects of vitamin pills seen in any study.  And in some, there … Continue reading →

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White Flour is Killing You

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Up to 30 chemicals are added to white flour, and often chemical dyes as well, to make what is now a starch behave like flour again after the bran and germ were removed (and vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, phytochemicals, etc).  … Continue reading →

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