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• Interview: is low-carb for everyone?
  Exercise, long walks, choral singing and meditating; there are numerous ways to increase ones well-being. Anyone who goes from feeling bad to finding something that works, is prone to believe that the solution found is a general one – but as we know, all methods are not suitable for everyone. In analogy with the above, [...]
  
  
• Eggs are still good for you
  Recently, headlines like “Eating many eggs linked to elevated risk of earlier death” were pretty much all over the place. I, and many others with me, firmly believe that eggs are extremely beneficial – so what’s the deal here? Well, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. For quite some time, most official dietary [...]
  
  
• Can fruit be considered primeval food?
  Fruit is often considered the very definition of primeval food, and also as the very definition of healthy food. Many fruits are undeniably very attractive, with sweet taste, intense colors and beautiful shapes, and one might therefore make the assumption that eating fruit is an instinct in humans. But humans are very affected by cultural [...]
  
  
• Paleolithic, primeval diet
  Something of a predicament for people interested in diets, is that the subject is often associated with unreliability. It is common knowledge that many flourishing diets are mere crazes, living their short lives on the placards of the tabloids – and as if that were not enough, many other diets have more or less degenerated [...]
  
  
• What makes a diet great?
  Let us consider the concept of healthiness; what elements of a diet makes it a healthy one? I would like to appoint two main components: How well the diet satisfies the dietary requirements How the diet affects the blood sugar They are interdependent – for instance, more minerals are consumed when the blood sugar fluctuates, [...]