ReWilding

Mycophobia: is it doing us any good?

Mycophobia: is it doing us any good?

Our society has a fear of fungi, there is no doubting that. We've been told they can kill us if we ingest the wrong species (which is true). So, we avoid culinary interaction with all wild species because some are poisonous.

Blackberry: A Tale of Two Fruits

Blackberry: A Tale of Two Fruits

Pictured is one of the plants that provided our morning meal of common blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis) fruits.  These fruits are delicious, sweet, crunchy (yes, crunchy, read on), and extremely nourishing.

Dietary Diversity: The Forgotten "Vitamin" in Successful Diets

Dietary Diversity:  The Forgotten "Vitamin" in Successful Diets

This article is a result of recent discussions with a number of people who practice the Paleo Diet.  For the record, these discussions were polite and the dialogue centered on pursuit of evidence and application of logical actions in the diet.

Dear Mark Sisson: Where Paleo Recommendations Stand in Contradiction to Real World Observations

Dear Mark Sisson: Where Paleo Recommendations Stand in Contradiction to Real World Observations

Dear Mark Sisson,

I came across your article entitled “Why Grains Are Unhealthy” that was published on the Huffington Post (shared on Primal Docs).  For those of you that missed it, it is posted here.  It is a nice article that presents some important information many are unaware of.

Breeding Nutrition Out of Plants

Breeding Nutrition Out of Plants

A recent article in The New York Times (by the same title as this one) discussed changes in modern produce and presented evidence that our supermarket fruits and vegetables are not as nutrient dense as their wild progenitors.

The Importance of Lifeviews

The Importance of Lifeviews

Let us imagine two children.  Both live in a forested area, near a large mountain, with abundant water resources.  Both children live in dwellings made of wood, and use wood for heat, cooking, and tool manufacture. Both children value the forest.

When Did Pregnancy Become an Ailment

When Did Pregnancy Become an Ailment

I question the routine use of a hospital for giving birth.  A hospital is a place where ailing people go for a diagnosis and receive treatment (and sometimes also therapy) for that diagnosis.  When did pregnancy become an ailment?  When did something as natural as giving birth become something that requires medical intervention?

Agricultural Lifestyles Affect More Than Physical Health

Agricultural Lifestyles Affect More Than Physical Health

Those who have been attending my recent lectures know that my focus has broadened to incorporate the study of hunter-gatherer children and how they were tended, nourished, and spent their time and how they differ emotionally from agricultural/industrial children. Suffice to say, this study has been very eye opening. I could never have imagined the full impact of our modern lives on children, which for many is sedentary, material, and divorced from nature.