re: Anyone tried the Paleo diet?

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There's no evidence people actually ate this way back in the day,

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Link?

Here's something for those with longer attention spans (the first thing that came up regarding hunter-gatherer diets): LINK

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Objective: Field studies of twentieth century hunter-gathers (HG) showed them to be generally free of the signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Consequently, the characterization of HG diets may have important implications in designing therapeutic diets that reduce the risk for CVD in Westernized societies.

...we have analyzed the 13 known quantitative dietary studies of HG and demonstrate that animal food actually provided the dominant (65%) energy source, while gathered plant foods comprised the remainder (35%). This data is consistent with a more recent, comprehensive review of the entire ethnographic data ( n ¼ 229HG societies) that showed the mean subsistence dependence upon gathered plant foods was 32%, whereas it was 68% for animal foods. Other evidence, including isotopic analyses of Paleolithic hominid collagen tissue, reductions in hominid gut size, low activity levels of certain enzymes, and optimal foraging data all point toward a long history of meat-based diets in our species.

Because increasing meat consumption in Western diets is frequently associated with increased risk for CVD mortality, it is seemingly paradoxical that HG societies, who consume the majority of their energy from animal food, have been shown to be relatively free of the signs and symptoms of CVD

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Paradoxical? What is the biggest difference between the S.A.D. (standard American diet) and that of our hunter gather forbears and their modern cousins?

CARBOHYDRATES. GRAINS. SUGAR. Not to mention all other harmful substances acknowledged to be in most processed foods.

Heart healthy grains is a big lie -- one of the biggest.

But whatever, eat your 4 servings of wheat a day, margarine, low fat chips, canola oil, diet soda, and continue to scoff at the 'crazy skinny people' who don't need prescription meds for blood pressure, cholesterol, GERD, and more.

'Crazy People' who choose to acknowledge reality and stop swallowing corp/gov propaganda.

Open your eyes folks. In most areas of this country, the average person is a complete lard-arse.

Even kids. Many of our younger generations are future land-whales waiting for the Type II diabeetus disability check at age 40 or something.

Why is that? (hint: in old farming texts, the optimal method for fattening hogs was to feed them corn).

Two excellent books/blogs/ and lots of youtube:

*Grain Brain - written by a Neurologist

*Wheat Belly - written by a Cardiologist

That said, it is probably best for ymost people to mock that which they do not understand because
"the regular food TASTES SO GOOD and cooking real food is JUST SO MUCH WORK and NOBODY HAS TIME FOR THAT and DANCING WITH THE STARS, plus THERE IS A NASCAR RACE ON. Now where's my pills?"