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Health / Re: Your opinions on Uric Acid blood readings?
« on: September 13, 2011, 11:16:02 am »

Hi,

I started experimenting with paleo about a month ago; I think I was very strict paleo for two weeks and have been about 80% paleo ever since then.  About half of my meat and fish I eat raw (if you include marinated as raw) and maybe 1/4 of my vegetables.  Anyway it is way too soon to tell what effect this is having, if any, on most of my health issues.  But one thing is dramatic: my gout has gone away!  I'm really excited about that.  I attribute it simply to giving up sugar and white flour.  I don't even have to be completely strict about that.  I included honey in my first few days of paleo before giving that up, and in the last two weeks have cheated twice with very dark chocolate and once, I am ashamed to admit, with a really crappy slice of cake that just happened to be sitting on a buffet table at a moment when I had a sugar craving.  But still, a month ago I basically went from eating 50% good food to eating around 90% good food, and my gout went away. 

As for cherries, they never did very much when I was eating "normally", although of course it is always possible that they made things a little less bad! 


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General Discussion / Re: South Korea
« on: September 13, 2011, 10:54:49 am »

Hey, thanks for the reply.  I'm looking forward to living in Korea again, but also nervous about a few things--I'll be living with a family and can't exactly be too fussy about what I eat with them, but I am hoping to convert them (eventually) to some less toxic cooking fat than the soy oil I think they used to use.  What I wonder did Koreans traditionally fry in?  Lard or tallow probably?  I know cooking isn't probably the right topic for a raw paleo forum but it's a concern of mine! 

As for raw things, of course I'm looking forward to raw fish and beef, which is traditional.  There's an article all over the web about how New Zealand has been promoting its grass-fed beef in Korea--but they're not smart enough, apparently, to tell us where to find it! If you want to promote something, clue people in on how to get it! 

Anyway I'm not going to stress out too much at first--I'm going to just eat generally healthy food at first and then gradually get back into more and more paleo as I settle in.  If the same pattern holds as last time, I'll make lunch for myself, and that can be as raw and as paleo as I want, and then eat the dinner that my host family cooks.  But I'm not going to deny myself a bit of restaurant hopping!  I was just reading today about what looks like a fantastic sashimi place. 

Anyway, I'd be very happy to meet up if you want--I'll be there in October. 

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General Discussion / Re: South Korea
« on: September 12, 2011, 06:23:42 am »
Hi! 

This is my first post in these forums.  I'm about to move to Korea as well (or move back there more accurately--I lived there once before, about fifteen years ago) and I'm interested in this question.  Are you living in Korea now, Josh, and have you found good sources of grass-fed meat?  Any other issues?   

Chris

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