It is hot topic in Poland now. Few days ago hardly anyone knew about ACTA, now everybody talks about it.
Poland is about to sign it up, so as form of protest, most of .gov website have been hacked.
Facebook groups "stop acta" grew from few to thousands of members.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/polish-government-websites-face-apparent-attack-by-internet-group-anonymous/2012/01/22/gIQAF1GEIQ_story.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16686265

The series follows a different person each episode who has an eating disorder such as a selective eating disorder (an extremely restricted diet, often to the point of avoiding entire food groups), or food neophobia. With the help of a team of experts, a number of techniques are employed to help the person overcome their problems and develop more healthy diets.

Guy Digs Eating Raw Meat Part 1.

Hi Charlie, i have hundreds of books on psychology, spirituality and self-growth and we could have a longer discussion on what works well or not. Most of approaches are long-term.

What you could start right now is to get a book "Last child in the woods" and do what it teaches: spend regular time in nature. I know it does not sound appealing or powerful but please believe me, incorporate walks/jogging in nature and it will help. Also cut sweets and carbs for some time to see how it affects you.

Hi FF and welcome on board. Thanks for sharing!

I would love to read GCB's book or even booklet that gives some practical perspective on what we can do nowadays to optimize our health by diet. I know there is a book on anopsology already (that I value highly by the way) but I would love to see more personal insights, stories, experiences, conlusions after living in instincto communities for that long.

First link works but instead of clicking it you need to copy and paste both 2 lines of address

Hi guys, I have recently launched my blog where I post about healthy lifestyle, food, psychology etc.. It is in polish so no need to share a link, but I would like to ask for your help.

I want to write a very short post on raw paleo diet.  What basic points would you use to show the advantage of this diet?  Remember it is for laymen.

Any materials, links appreciated..

For those of you who do not have time to watch it all here are my notes (sorry for typos)

Your body is your unconsciouss mind

Surges of blood pressure are cause of million of diseases

Addressing it is crucial for our health

Brain systems are damaged (even irreversibly) on vegan diets

Gluten sensivity and coeliac are huge issues

Coeliac It is not diagnosable until it fully “crashes”

Anxiety issues are more popular than everything else combined

Fats and cholerestol are essential for nervous system and brain

Low fat diets should never be promoted in this population

She gives examples how all primitive cultures eat lots of fat

Consuming variety of fats is important for optimal health

Ketones (definition: the by-product of using body fat for energy instead of glucose from the foods eaten.) are crucial source of energy for brain and other systems

People say you are dependent on glucose, she strongly disagrees

She got interested in neurofeedback  because she was depressed for many years and it liberated her

If you chronical eat carbohadrates to temporary elevate your mood you are depleting your brain of serotonine

70% of children with untreated gluten sensivity or celiac shows same brian patterns like ADD/ADHD

She cities studies where 100% of ADHD patients improved on gluten free diet. (“100%!? can you imagine if drug could do that?“)

Our ancestors did not necessary ate what is most healthy for them, they just looked for survival

It is especially important in this difficult times (ironed water, mineral deficient soils..) to eat healthy, she says that people ate healthy in paleo times and we eating this way will be way ahead of others, but this diet could also evolve and be optimized to current circumstances (she talks more about it in her book). Paleo is not the end point.

Restirction of carbs and proteins. We need proteins to be efficient (sufficient) but we do not need to eat slabs and slabs and slabs of meat. Our ancestors did not do it either. We do it because we have abundance of food now.

Point is not to eat high fat diet but “high percentage diet”. It does not take much fat to satisfy your diet but it is important to get enough!

Study that lasted 20 years. 2 groups monkeys. One was allowed to eat as much as they wanted. The other was fed with  sufficiently dense  nutrition diet (Caloric restircion of proteins and carbs) (30% fewer calories of  what they could consume). After 20 years 37% from first group died on diseases (heart disease, cancer, diabetes/…). The other group only 13% died. They got better result In all health markers that were measured, including brain health.  They maintained greater brain volume which normaly shrinks with age.They had superior cognitive function.

Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesnora-gedgaudas

And how do you guys relate to this part of DV quote?:

"A brief survey of those humans we call the “Indigenous” of the world, especially those who were Hunter/Gatherers reveals a diet that, while varying in the ratio of animal to plant food, still always contains both in ample degrees.  These people are always cooks, in that they are never found on “Raw Food Diets”.  They eat a mix of raw and cooked foods"

Most of you have probably already read Daniel Vitalis' post on "Vegans vs Carnivores": http://www.danielvitalis.com/2010/05/vegans-vs-carnivores/

It is a nice article that I mostly agree with. We as human beings need balance of veggies (for cleansing, detoxifing purposes) and meats (for building tissues). What makes me think though is his point that we humans adopted to Fire:

"Even more so than animals like the Bear that, while omnivorous, lack Fire, the Elemental tool that renders the inedible edible.  Sorry Rawfooders! We are a unique species, specifically adapted as omnivores, and with modifications to our anatomy that attest to this.  In fact, it seems to me that our anatomy demonstrates that we have adapted to Fire in the same way an organism like a fish might adapt to the Water, or a bird has adapted to the Air.  Our lack of hair being just one example.  Another is the fact that we have the smallest mouths and stomachs (compared to our body size) of any of the great apes seems to indicate a selection towards those who ate the softest and most condensed food sources.

A brief survey of those humans we call the “Indigenous” of the world, especially those who were Hunter/Gatherers reveals a diet that, while varying in the ratio of animal to plant food, still always contains both in ample degrees.  These people are always cooks, in that they are never found on “Raw Food Diets”.  They eat a mix of raw and cooked foods, as well as balancing animal foods against plant foods.  I know of no culture that is based solely on plant food, nor one built exclusively on animal foods."

If I understand it correct he suggests that we can thrive on meats as long as they are not overcooked. It is ok in his opinion to eat slightly processed meats (for example steamed salmon steak).

Is it really that straightforward as we think on this forum, that the less processed meat the healthier it is? Or maybe Daniel has some vaild points that meat is healthy as long as it is not cooked over  some threshold of time&temperture?

This man looks unhealthy and very unhappy. And he looks I guess 15 older than he really is.

Thanks L. It is what I have been struggling with, regardless how good my diet is. It is good to see - reducing sugar intake helped but here seems to be the misssing element!

Not the newest one but I always enjoy watching the part starting at 04:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-N5adYM7Kw