What Paleo diet experts think – and why they’re wrong

Claims by proponents of the carbohydrate-averse food regimen supposedly based on what our paleolithic ancestors ate do not stand up to scientific scrutiny

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/18/paleo-diet-critics-science

Bubblecar said:

What Paleo diet experts think – and why they’re wrong

Claims by proponents of the carbohydrate-averse food regimen supposedly based on what our paleolithic ancestors ate do not stand up to scientific scrutiny

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/18/paleo-diet-critics-science

I’d have thought when starvation was a reality you’d eat anything.
Do proponents of the diet think our ancestors were healthy, I wonder if the opposite is true and they were malnourished

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

What Paleo diet experts think – and why they’re wrong

Claims by proponents of the carbohydrate-averse food regimen supposedly based on what our paleolithic ancestors ate do not stand up to scientific scrutiny

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/18/paleo-diet-critics-science

I’d have thought when starvation was a reality you’d eat anything.
Do proponents of the diet think our ancestors were healthy, I wonder if the opposite is true and they were malnourished

It’s fair to note that paleo diets don’t try to mimic the way in which early humans consumed food (which presumably would have been opportunistic feast and famine), they are more concerned with trying to eliminate the types of food that wouldn’t have been available to early humans (principally high energy processes foods).

This notwithstanding, some paleo diets also suggest a feast-famine cycle.

diddly-squat said:

…they are more concerned with trying to eliminate the types of food that wouldn’t have been available to early humans (principally high energy processes foods).

What’s their stance on pemmican?

I draw the line at bone broth for babies. Waaay too much vitamin A, which can be deadly. Look at the explorers who ate their dogs.

Divine Angel said:

I draw the line at bone broth for babies. Waaay too much vitamin A, which can be deadly. Look at the explorers who ate their dogs.

Barking mad

Highly processed food probably isn’t good for you in large amounts, but why bring our ancient ancestors into it as some kind of example, it brings the entire thing into the woo woo arena.

Mike Willesee is doing the paleo diet for 10 weeks. He drinks a lot of Coke and eats a lot of biscuits and ice cream. Sure, if you cut that stuff out you’re going to be healthier.

Cymek said:

Highly processed food probably isn’t good for you in large amounts, but why bring our ancient ancestors into it as some kind of example, it brings the entire thing into the woo woo arena.

The inherent presumption is that our bodies haven’t evolved to the point where they can properly metabolise these types of food.

Cymek said:

Do proponents of the diet think our ancestors were healthy, I wonder if the opposite is true and they were malnourished

I have heard that when food was abundant, the varied diet of the hunter-gatherer was superior to the diet of the first farmer whose diet was based on single crops.

Depends on the part of the world. Some places were practically paradises, tropical islands with oysters, mussels, fish, edible seaweeds and herbs, coconuts and taro allowed the inhabitants a leisurely life. Other places it was a hard scrabble existance.

Some parts of North America afforded the locals abundant foods and they could store for winter, others, like the dry west not so much.

I don’t like this use of “experts” so close to “Paleo diet”.

It makes it sound like a legitimate field.

Soon we’ll all be on the Eskimo diet of seals and whale fat. Great for your skin and sending your oldies off on an ice floe.

The Eskimos are the only race of people to have a diet that consists almost solely of meat.
The polar bear is the only race of bear to have a diet that consists almost solely of meat.
Go figure.

mollwollfumble has quite a few diets of his own. The one he most likes to follow is the “cats and dogs” diet. Cats eat offal and dogs eat bone, both are good for you but both are missing from most supermarket shelves. He eats as much semi-cooked offal and bone as he can.

Another mollwollfumble diets is the hip-pocket diet. Eat as much as you like provided it costs less than $X per day, eg $1 per day.

And the weight-lifters diet. Carry all your weekly food home from the shop on foot in a single trip.

mollwollfumble said:

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And the weight-lifters diet. Carry all your weekly food home from the shop on foot in a single trip.

One would expect that to be bulky and awkward but 100 kilos of pure protein stacks pretty well………

mollwollfumble said:

The Eskimos are the only race of people to have a diet that consists almost solely of meat.
The polar bear is the only race of bear to have a diet that consists almost solely of meat.
Go figure.

why go figure? what’s your point?

Postpocelipse said:

mollwollfumble said:

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And the weight-lifters diet. Carry all your weekly food home from the shop on foot in a single trip.

One would expect that to be bulky and awkward but 100 kilos of pure protein stacks pretty well………

It is the balancing of the cartons of beer on the shoulders that helps.

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Eskimos are the only race of people to have a diet that consists almost solely of meat.
The polar bear is the only race of bear to have a diet that consists almost solely of meat.
Go figure.

why go figure? what’s your point?

Think he’s trying to say that it is too cold in thir climate to grow veg.

noisy miner be hearin’, a mower off yonder
too willy wagtail, wind’s up a little, sun’s in and out
cloud comin’ in from the west, i’m coffeein’
magpie now be songin’ way down front here block

wind has just started whistlin’ ‘m flue wires
walk canine Larry in a moment, wantin’ relieve self
then back into insulatin’/linin’ it ceilin’ above
this is the eighth line here endeth ol’ mornin’ report

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