Happy weekend everyone! How was your week? Do you have anything exciting going on this weekend? I hope so! I have something a little different for you today. We are going to take a break from eating for a moment and talk about something that is also near and dear to my heart – fitness!…
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Pure and Simple HIIT Exercise (Paleo, Fitness)
Hi everyone. It’s Erik again, back to share even more exercise related information with you. Sorry for the long delay since my last post but with the start of summer comes the end of competition season in swimming which means we had a lot of big competitions in the last few weeks. I am very…
Pure and Simple Book Club: The Omnivores Dilemma
Great news everyone: I am starting a new section on the blog that I hope you will like! I am calling it The Pure and Simple Book Club. It is pretty self explanatory but the idea is that after I read a book that I think is worth discussing I will give you the break…
Gelatin: Health Benefits and Recipe Wrap-up
Nourishing Traditions outlines the many health benefits of gelatin and I now routinely tell people to incorporate this superfood into their diet. The health benefits of gelatin include: It provides an easily utilized source of collagen which is important for skin elasticity and texture It helps support bone and joint function and recovery from injury due…
Getting Personal: Guest Post on Ditch the Wheat
Erin’s IBS Story As I have mentioned before it is my goal to help others discover the power that food can have on healing the body so if I help even one person by sharing these intimate details then I have reached my goal. Thanks for your support everyone! As always if you have any…
Why Your Doctor Hasn’t Recommended The Paleo Diet (Paleo, Gluten Free, GAPS, SC
What are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, what foods they can be found in etc. And the education we do receive is mainly based on the current food guide. We do not get taught nutrition specific to certain diseases, mainly because the time it would take to do this would be immense, and would take away from…
My Favourite Real Food Books
So I am all moved into my new house. Well kind of. I am still surrounded by boxes. But I do have internet now which is rather important. It also means that I can write another blog post. Now starting off on a grain free diet can be rather intimidating at first. Our society is…
The Truth About Meat
Recently I had a friend ask me what the big deal is about eating grass fed meat or traditionally raised meat. “Is it really that much better than the regular meat that I buy?” So because of that conversation I decided to do a post about meat. Something that I eat. A lot. There is…
Disturbing Food Facts
So I read an article today that today disgusted me. I will post the link below for you all to read but first I will give you a little background. Now I have known for a while that our food supply is filled with additives/ ingredients that don’t belong in them. A few examples: 1….