I overheard someone talking about a friend the other day, saying “She’s so slim, she’s so lucky!” As it happened, in this case, luck certainly had nothing to do with it. The individual in question actually used to be considerably over-weight, but had transformed her figure through a combination of diet and lifestyle change, strength [...]
Is Gluten-Free a Fad? An article published last week in Scientific American made its position on the above very clear: Most People Shouldn’t Eat Gluten-Free. In the article it is argued that dieters attempting to avoid gluten may become nutrient deficient unless they plan their meals very carefully, and that most reported health benefits come [...]
There is now a plethora of information available on efficient running and swimming. Techniques such as POSE and Total Immersion have garnered such a reputation that it is eventually starting to filter down into the mainstream, and people are beginning to realise that there is more to improving performance than just “trying harder” or “pushing [...]
Understanding Back Pain and other Chronic Pain Syndromes My series of posts on chronic back pain and joint pain have been some of my most popular posts, and I’ve had lots of positive feedback from clients and readers who have followed the guidelines I outlined with great success. Over the last year or so however, [...]
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln As always, I did a lot of reading on the subject of health, fitness and lifestyle over 2012, so I thought I’d do a bit of a review of some of the best books I came [...]
I thought it was about time I properly outlined my definitions of exercise, training and activity. I think it is important to differentiate between the three terms, as they do all have significant differences, although they are often banded about interchangeably. Of course, I am guilty of that myself – the page “Train” on this [...]
After some deliberation, I have decided to change the name of this blog. The new name will be Live Now, Thrive Later – http://www.livenowthrivelater.co.uk I still have great affinity and love for the name Primal, and my outdoor fitness site, Primal Fitness will continue to operate under that banner, but I have decided to move [...]
In the first instalment of this series, I argued that there is no such thing as food. Rather that there are only other living organisms, some of which we choose to label as food, but that these labels are often pretty arbitrary. In the subsequent posts, I looked at the four major criteria on which [...]
I love food. I love talking about food, I love cooking and preparing food, but most of all I love eating food. I certainly see foods as a source of energy and raw materials, and I am aware that certain foods can be potentially harmful to my health, however I also view food as a [...]
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net In the previous posts we established that human beings survive by consuming other living organisms to provide energy and raw materials for growth, reproduction and survival, and that we call these organisms that we choose to eat “food”. What should also be considered, however, is that the consumption of other living organisms could [...]