After a one-year delay, my talk from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium is online with slides synched. The talk is titled "
Obesity: Old Solutions for a New Problem", and it's an overview of some of the research linking food reward to food intake and body fatness. This is the talk that introduced a fundamentally new idea to the ancestral community: not only does the chemical composition of food matter, but also its sensory qualities-- in fact, the sensory qualities of food are among the primary determinants of food intake. I didn't come up with the idea of course, I simply translated the research for a more general audience and put my own evolutionary spin on it.
The talk would be a bit different if I were to give it today, as my understanding of the subject has expanded, and my speaking skills have improved. However, the central message remains as true today as it was a year ago. You can find the talk
here.
The slide synching was done by an extremely generous man named Ben Fury. As you can see in the video, he did an excellent job. Without Ben, this video would have remained in internet limbo forever.
Below, I've published a message from Ben explaining the interesting work that he does. Please contact him if you think it's interesting.
A Message from Ben Fury I was writing a book on health, fitness and diet in 2009 when my house burned down in the Station Fire, along with 165,000 acres of my beloved Angeles National Forest. Since then, I've had a series of people needing help come through my life, that have upgraded and morphed my talents...
Seniors with chronic pain, falls, brittle bones, and stiff shrunken muscles.
Diabetics with out of control blood sugars, going blind, and having limbs lopped off.
Neurologically challenged people with spastic limbs and foggy brains.
Fat, listless, unhappy people with no idea how they got that way, seeing no way out of the darkness.
Each of them needing help in different ways, but all with an underlying theme of what works to help heal our conditions:
- Remove flour, sugar, beans, and heavily processed oils from our diet. Eat real food.
- Get strong.
- Get flexible.
- Stop ceding health responsibility to outside forces, and take charge of our own wellness.
- Only use truly evidence based medicine. Don't just pop the latest pill or get the latest surgery all the other people are doing. Be wary of the disease mongers in both the conventional and alternative camps.
- Find our "happy thoughts." Use the simple restoratives of sleep, play, and reflection, to let go of pain, find inner peace, and let in joy and purposeful outer direction.
The methods to accomplish these goals are varied, and I have both non-profit and for-profit ventures to share them.
Their websites are currently in development.
The for-profit is BenFury.com
The non-profit is PainRelieversUSA.org , whose mission statement is:
To move beyond pain management...
and learn to live pain free.
Feel free to write to me at: ben [at] benfury dot com
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