Flashback Friday: Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise

click here deleterious effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the positive effects of a Crossfit-based high-intensity circuit training exercise program.

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free newsletter to receive our fasting infographic that covers the latest research on the risks and benefits of different types of fasting: touched on paleo diets before in Paleolithic Lessons and I featured a guest blog on the subject: Will The Real Paleo Diet Please Stand Up? wrote a book on low carb diets (now available free full-text online: and touched on it in Atkins Diet: Trouble Keeping It Up and Low Carb Diets and Coronary Blood Flow just two months ago, I published a bunch of videos on the low-carb keto diet: if you’re thinking, yeah, but how about the size of the cholesterol, small and dense or large and fluffy? Please see my video Does Cholesterol Size Matter? a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it.

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