Paleo Diet

[Tuckahoe]

http://mumanu.wordpress.com/2013/11/...er-paleo-diet/

Yeah... its an "article" on a website/blog for some body pillow, so I read this article as satire and humor, nor as anything legitimate. And the oh so serious Paleos in the comment section made it much more entertaining for me atleast






PS this is posted in the humor section.

[WingedMonkey]

So now you are making fun of Paleo reenactors ?

[moytoy]

The "sum up" says it all.

[Pedaling Fool]

I think this is funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOjVYgYaG8

[snifur]

paleo people are all dead for a reason.

[Sarcasm the elf]

paleo people are all dead for a reason.

Reason being the passage of time?

[Tuckahoe]

So now you are making fun of Paleo reenactors ?

Absofrickinglutely! The current crop of Paleos are just a bunch of mainstream farbs; they're just not hardcore enough. Ever since "Quest for Fire" and "Clan of the Cavebear" Paleo just hasnt been the same. Can you believe it? Some folks think they can just go out and buy a bear skin eat some road kill and call themselves Paleo... the nerve!

[Wise Old Owl]

OMG what is a paleoethnobotanist? And is Absofrickinglutely in a dictionary or in http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slang I got to go back to English Class.... my brain hurts....

[Odd Man Out]

Don't you know that the development of all civilizations coincided with the cultivation of grain as well as the production of beer, thus proving that beer making is in fact the world's oldest profession.

[Wise Old Owl]

I love the part of the article ..... at the end...

“Look, the diet itself is sound; it’s the philosophy that’s bull****. Eat what you want. Just leave the damn cavemen out of it.”

[WingedMonkey]

paleo people are all dead for a reason.

The dinosaurs ate them. Six thousand years ago.

[HikerMom58]

OMG what is a paleoethnobotanist? And is Absofrickinglutely in a dictionary or in http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slang I got to go back to English Class.... my brain hurts....

Absofrickinglutely! It's my new favorite word....

[JAK]

Lot of holes in the article. I can only assume the article has oversimplified the arguments of the scientists against the paleo-diet. I have always thought the paleo-diet is oversimplified because I've always understood that pre-agricultural diets had to have been widely varied around the world. Still, the spirit of the thing is to try and eat real food, avoiding over-industrialized food, and also avoiding over-agriculturized foods like rice, wheat, corn, that put too much emphasis on cheap calories. Have fun out there.

[Sarcasm the elf]

The dinosaurs ate them. Six thousand years ago.

It was terrible...

[Odd Man Out]

A few years ago I saw an interesting film on some primitive tribes in New Guinea (primitive in that they had little or no contact with the outside world and lived a lifestyle relatively unchanged for thousands of years). The documentary analyzed the various contributions to the tribe's diet. The men would go out for days at a time on a trips where they would hunt (monkey) and gather (wild honey). The effort, skill, and knowledge needed to attain these resources from the jungle were quite impressive. Meanwhile, the women would stay in the village and tend to garden plots where they would grow vegetables. After a few days, the men would come back with their honey and meat, pounding their chest with much bravado, bragging about how well the village would eat thanks to their hunting prowess. But when they analyzed the meal, they found that the vast majority of the calories came from the food raised by the women in the garden.

[Namtrag]

The paleo diet is really nothing more than eating real food, which means anything not processed extensively. People keep equating it with Atkins or some fad diet, but it's really not a diet.

[perdidochas]

Don't you know that the development of all civilizations coincided with the cultivation of grain as well as the production of beer, thus proving that beer making is in fact the world's oldest profession.

Yes, but hunter gatherers worked an average of 20-30 hrs per week. The cultivation of grain coincides with the longer work week and shorter life spans. A hunter gatherer that survived childhood had a life expectancy of about what ours is.

[Tuckahoe]

Care to site sources?

[WingedMonkey]

A hunter gatherer that survived childhood had a life expectancy of about what ours is.

Might be true that some lived to a nice old age...but...surviving childhood was a huge if.

Infant mortality is over 30 times greater among hunter-gatherers, and early child mortality is over 100 times greater than encountered in the United States.

we see that on average 57 percent, 64 percent, and 67 percent of children born survive to age 15 years among hunter-gatherers, forager-horticulturalists, and acculturated hunter-gatherers.

https://condensedscience.wordpress.c...-other-groups/
from
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gur...lan2007pdr.pdf

[max patch]

Yes, but hunter gatherers worked an average of 20-30 hrs per week. The cultivation of grain coincides with the longer work week and shorter life spans. A hunter gatherer that survived childhood had a life expectancy of about what ours is.

Care to site sources?

Except for the 20-30 hours comment, I heard the same thing on Serius/XM radio last week on the NYU Dr Radio show. Our life spans decreased with the advent of farming. Not commenting one way or the other, just supplying a source.