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Some odds and ends only today.

Happy Birthday America!

A happy Independence Day to all Americans.

It’s a day to celebrate the gifts America’s founders bequeathed to posterity and to commemorate the trials they underwent to found the nation.  It may also be worth remembering that they considered liberty a fragile plant that would have to be renewed in each generation, and to ponder the question posed at the end of our national anthem: Does the American flag still wave over a land of the free and home of the brave?

In honor of the holiday, here is a special Fourth of July edition of Shou-Ching’s photo art:

My podcast with Ben Greenfield

I was interviewed by Ben Greenfield of Ben Greenfield Fitness. The podcast can be found here.

Ben has a great community oriented toward endurance athletes – cyclists, runners, triathletes. The quality of his content is impressive and I highly recommend his site.

Special Offer from Kelapo Coconut Oil

The friendly folks at Kelapo.com are giving Perfect Health Diet readers a special offer on their cold-pressed organic coconut oil from Sri Lanka. I tried it, and it tastes great.

The coupon code is: PerfectHealth20 (case sensitive), usable at their online store. It will provide 20% off the total order and is valid until July 27.

A Summer Meet-Up

Some of our Boston area readers have expressed interest in meeting up sometime this summer. I know Ellen is interested.

Here’s what I suggest. On Plum Island off Newburyport there is a beach in the state park at the south end of the island. You get to the beach via the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, which has walking trails through dunes and marshland and is a pleasant place to spend an afternoon.

We’ll commit to being on the beach from 4:30 to 6:30 pm on a Saturday afternoon, with some picnic food. We’ll just be hanging out – walking, chatting, eating, reading, playing Frisbee. Any one who cares to is welcome to stop by and join us for as much time as you wish – just say hi, or stay and chat.

We can do either July 16 and 23.

If you’re interested and would like to influence our choice of date, please send me an email at pauljaminet@perfecthealthdiet.com.

Have a great holiday!

The one year anniversary of our blog will be on June 14. The year has flown by, but it’s been very enjoyable for us. We’re delighted at all the new Internet friends we’ve made.

We’ve developed a fair-sized audience — about 24,000 unique monthly visitors and 120,000 monthly page views — and we’re grateful for every one of you. We’re especially grateful to those who have made our comment section one of the most pleasant on the Web.

To celebrate, we’re going on vacation for the next week and a half. It will be a genuine vacation — which means we won’t read or reply to comments or emails until our return.

Blogging will resume when I (Paul) get caught up on work. I may take a blogging break to get the Kindle version out, and make some changes to the web site.

Also, soon after getting back I’ll be appearing on a few shows: Cary Nosler’s radio show on KSTE Talk 650 in Sacramento, California on Sunday June 19 from noon to 1 Pacific time (3-4 pm eastern time); and Ben Greenfield’s podcast show. Looking farther out, I’ll be speaking at the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions conference in Dallas November 11-13. It will be a great meeting; many thanks to Sally Fallon for the invitation to speak.

When blogging resumes, first up will be a bit more on LDL, and then I’ll begin “My Story.” I’ll take long breaks throughout to explore issues that came up at one time or another — cancer (which my mother died from at age 33), Candida, acne, rosacea, C. pneumoniae, memory loss and dementia, impaired mood, neuropathy, fatigue. As I get into how I resolved my issues, I’ll talk about how to use self-experimentation to help diagnose causes and find effective therapies for chronic disease.

As we progress on our cookbook, I’ll blog posts about the health benefits of various foods, and how to adjust the diet for various health conditions.

I expect to have one or two guest bloggers on the topic of fitness, and I hope to spend more time on the blog discussing reader experiences and seeing if together we can make progress in understanding and curing chronic disease.

We’re looking forward to our vacation but also to getting back to blogging. It should be a busy and fun year. Thank you so much for making this past year fruitful, and for helping us explore the puzzles of diet and health in the year to come!

Best,

The hard drive on our server crashed yesterday morning, that is why the site was down or slow much of the day. The site had to be restored from backup, and a few comments were lost.

Also, emails were lost. I’ve now replied to all emails I did receive, so if you emailed me and I haven’t replied, please re-send.

If you notice any part of the site that isn’t functioning properly, please let me know.

I’ll do the HDL post later today. I’m sorry for the disruption.

Best, Paul

My interview with Jimmy Moore is up: Paul Jaminet Offers ‘Perfect Health’ (Episode 453).

For new visitors, we are a low-to-moderate-carb Paleo diet that resembles traditional Pacific Islander and East Asian diets. But our focus is on optimizing health and healing and preventing disease through diet and nutrition.

Our book offers a four-step program for perfect health. Steps One and Two implement a low-carb Paleo diet. Step Three optimizes nutrition, and explains why everyone needs to supplement a little. Step Four discusses how to optimize immunity to heal and prevent disease.

Some posts you might find interesting:

• Low Carb Paleo, and LDL is Soaring – Help! and Answer Day: What Causes High LDL on Low-Carb Paleo? discuss reasons why LDL levels can become high on a low-carb Paleo diet.
• Ketogenic Diet for NBIA (Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation) tells the heartwarming story of two boys with a fatal and excruciatingly painful genetic disease that are being helped by a therapeutic ketogenic diet.
• Jimmy and I discussed zero-carb dangers. Here are a few posts from that series: Dangers of Zero-Carb Diets, II: Mucus Deficiency and Gastrointestinal Cancers; Danger of Zero-Carb Diets III: Scurvy; and Dangers of Zero-Carb Diets, IV: Kidney Stones.

Thanks Jimmy! I had a lot of fun talking to you, and I hope your listeners enjoy the interview and our site!