EvFit (Keith Thomas)

Another WayBack worth checking out! Keith Thomas's EvFit was was one of the orginal palaeo/paleo focused blogs. Starting in 2002 and running until 2021, it provided a solid "look up" of Paleo principles.

Keith's summary was that "...the Evolutionary Fitness message [is] very simple: live, eat, be active ("exercise" in 21st century language) as if you were living in the late Pleistocene. Now that's not wholly possible, so we all have to compromise somewhere, and it's where we each choose not to compromise that marks us out."

Like Art DeVany, Keith was ahead of the pack intellectually, and physically sharper than people half his age - well into his more advanced years. I love the quote "Art is far more comfortable in the Anthropocene than I am".

Healthy Aging - Prof. Charlyn Black

Danny Lennon's latest podcast looks at healthy aging with Professor Charlyn Black.

There is little that is new here in terms of WHAT we should be addressing - diet, exercise, sleep, stress, loss of hearing etc... But there are some excellent new insights into more recent research such as that upto 45% of dementia cases are linked to modifiable lifestyle factors.

Randy Feltface

Who would have thought an "Aldi-brand Faberge egg" would articulate so much sense? There is a reason why you both should and shouldn't start with episode two, you maniac.

Very funny and rather insightful.

PaNu & Archevore

Kurt G Harris's second paleo site, PaNu, hit hard! Archevore was the original.

EvFit

Keith Thomas's EvFit was a great Paleo resource. Available on the WayBack machine!

Frailty

The New York Times warns that nearly half of older adults are at risk of becoming frail. Frailty is evaluated on five key traits: weakness, slowness, exhaustion, physical inactivity and unintentional weight loss.

The creeping sedentarism of modern life is a growing menace which will assuredly get worse. Sure I love Netflix box sets like the next person, and everything from a dish washer, TV remote, and a microwave has a place in my house. 

But home-working two floors above the kitchen ensures several hundred feet of climbing happen each day. Food shopping is done occasionally on foot. I will sit on the ground to watch TV and occasionally get up non-handed from a cross-legged position. I tend to be barefoot or just in socks around the house.

It is unnoticeably weird. It is vitally important. Bake it in to your daily life.

The Compass

 Lock in for something wonderful!

In BBC World Service's six-part series The Compass, Vybarr Cregan-Reid looks at the disconnect between our bodies and our lived environment.