The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications

Chet Day ^ | Unknown | An Interview with Loren Cordain

[Pharmboy]

A ping for your interest...old thread that just reappeared.

[Proud_texan]

"The Chinese and Japanese.."

They also have very low incidents of digestive system cancer. Obviously this could be due to other factors but I've always wondered if we were designed to eat meat why our intestines weren't designed like those of other meat eaters.

[SC DOC]

I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.

[Pharmboy]

LOL! It probably was the low carb mango salsa...

[Pharmboy]

We are not pure carnivores (like cats), but rather omnivores (like bears, pigs, rats, dogs).

[CDHart]

Very interesting article. Thanks for the post!

Carolyn

[R. Scott]

Eat like cave men and women.

As long as we get the same amount of exercise and fast for a few days every few weeks.
I do think the newest food pyramid is more PC than healthy. Sorry, fed - I would make a really lousy vegetarian.

[Colorado Buckeye]

I wasn't able to lost weight on the Atkins diet but I did feel the best I've even felt in recent memory. I know that carbs are pure poison for my body but want the reward of weight loss that goes with the diet. That I could never achieve.

You might want to visit Dr. Mercola's site and do a search on conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).

[Colorado Buckeye]

Bump.

[KosmicKitty]

Honey, even if I ate nothing but mastodon steaks, I ain't never going to look like that ;-)

[aruanan]

Robert Crayhon, M.S. is a clinician, researcher and educator who was called "one of the top ten nutritionists in the country" by Self magazine (August 1993). An associate editor of Total Health magazine, he is the author of best-seller Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple and the just published The Carnitine Miracle (M. Evans and Company).

Researcher, ha ha ha. He has one listing in PubMed and that's for a comment on a paper in J Am Coll Nutr. 1998 Jun;17(3):207-15. And notice that that was in 1998.

Yeah, the paleolithic diet is fine if you want to live in a way that brings a life expectancy of about 25-30 years.

[T'wit]

The switch from hunter-gatherer to agriculture made much more possible than beer. It made government possible -- because farm communities, tied to the land, were easy targets for spoliation and slaves. (Hunter-gatherers have nothing worth stealing, so we never saw the state develop in their domain. See "The State" by Franz Oppenheimer, published in Germany c. 1912, as I recall.)

Government, in the fullness of time, inflicted swarms of liberals upon us, eating out our substance. If it weren't for Free Republic, we'd all be wearing chains and picking cotton. So send Jim some money -- y'hear?

[blam]

"A ping for your interest...old thread that just reappeared.

Thanks, I like it when that happens.

[RightWhale]

This is the ancient Munro diet. Eliminate carbs altogether. Bugs and berries okay.

[Pharmboy]

I don't know the Munro diet, but I do know a bit about this one. It is based on pretty extensive data regarding the diets of hunting-gathering persons from all over the world (these people's diets would be closest to that of our ancestral hunter-gatherers) so, it has that.

[RightWhale]

Munro or Monroe I read about maybe 35 years ago and the book was old then. Said we were carnivores, and furthermore used to live very long lives. When our ancestors began agriculture and eating wheat, etc, our lifetimes were reduced to what they are now. Kind of questionable, but Munro said eat all the meat, eggs you want, avoid everything with starch. Orange juice okay. I would not recommend this, just reporting.

[Pharmboy]

Mine sounds like an updating of Munro's point of view with more data to back it up. But Munro's basic point was, and remains, correct.

[Myrddin]

Type O+ here as well. I spent years feeding an ear, nose and throat doctor to deal with sinus problems. After reading Eat Right for Your Type, I started eliminating stuff on the "bad list". It turned out that wheat was the primary source of the post nasal drip. A wheat free diet leaves my sinuses clear all the time...except when I catch a legitimate cold. Fresh milk was another item eliminated. The gasto-intestinal distress that was almost constant went away with elimination of fresh milk. Total elimination of dairy also fixes the swelling in my throat. It makes life challenging to keep all the bad stuff away.

When I eliminate the bad stuff from ER4YT and follow an Atkins low carb diet, I can lose weight and stay exceptionally healthy. A little regular exercise helps a bunch. Russian kettlebells are my exercise of choice.

[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past. Topic is from 2002.

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