Comments on: 5 Steps for Eating a Paleo Diet

By: Roseline Woodruff

Roseline Woodruff — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:22:26 +0000

Proponents of this diet argue that modern human populations subsisting on traditional diets allegedly similar to those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers are largely free of diseases of affluence,and that multiple studies of the Paleolithic diet in humans have shown improved health outcomes relative to other widely recommended diets.”^*`

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By: James

James — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:57:28 +0000

I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2005, and told its an incurable chronic condition. I was taking approx $1000/month medications. I got laid off and lost my health insurance. I was morbidly obese nearly 400lbs when I lost my job, so I decided with time on my hands I should spend that time constructively on weight loss and healthy lifestyle. I gave up all processed foods and most grains, however I still eat oats, legumes and dairy. I could no longer afford my medications so I took a chance and stopped having my rx filled. amazingly none of the symptoms of the ulcerative colitis have returned even though I was told Id need those noxious medications for my entire life. Im now 215 lbs and Ive never felt healthier. in the past year I have run 2 half marathons and numerous other races, and have a full marathon planned for this fall, I attribute all of this to the clean diet Ive been eating. If i had continued eating all the trash I used to put in my body, Id probably have ended up in the hospital by now.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:15:19 +0000

Yes – there is wisdom to learn from the ancients: what not to eat – i.e. the real paleo diet, as pointed out by Norm. We have been gathering that intelligence over the ages as we domesticated plants and animals, learned what was safer to eat, how to vaccinate our children against diseases, how to engineer crops to make yet safer foods. What we now do is the cumulative gathering and utilization of knowledge from Paleolithic times to the present. Unfortunately there are amongst us neo-Neanderthals and Luddites who think that the bad old days were good old days. They use copper sulphate instead of modern safe fungicides, pollute the soil such that nothing can grow, but call their products organic wine. They use animal manure on vegetable crops and kill people in one episode after another after poisoning their victims minds that organic vegetables are healthier than vegetables cultivated with modern fertilizers that do not carry Salmonella and E coli. Lets be thinking greens – who do risk/benefit analyses on what balances best for the environment (including the human environment)- instead of being politically-correct knee jerk neo-Neanderthals.

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:05:07 +0000

In reply to Norm. I think there is wisdom to glean from looking back in history however.

By: The Humane Hominid

The Humane Hominid — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:14:08 +0000

@Norm:

And ate bugs and worms, possibly feces as well. Not to mention all the megafaunal species they drove to extinction.

A true “caveman” diet would forage for meat among local wildlife — rats, mice, pigeons, cockroaches, ants, spiders, stray cats and dogs — not buy a piece of fancy domesticated cow flesh from Whole Foods.

Come to think of it, the caveman diet lifestyle would be a good way to bring down that overpopulation of feral doggies and kitties…

By: Norm

Norm — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:35:38 +0000

And they only lived to age 30 and also practiced cannibalism. It wasn’t a very perfect world then either.

By: The Humane Hominid

The Humane Hominid — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:00:28 +0000

“This is a clear indication that our bodies were designed for a diet similar to that of Paleolithic man and woman, not that of their Neolithic, wheat-eating cousins. ”

No, it isn’t. There could be any number of explanations for this “decline.” For instance, agriculture increased reproductive fitness and produced greater population density, which in turn promoted the spread of diseases. It would also have increased the net number of individual variations pulling the observed average down (that is, the pre-Neolithic fossil record may be biased by a smaller sample size).

And you don’t think wheat- and grain-eating just fell from the sky, do you? We must have been practicing it in some form for quite a long time before the Neolithic.

It’s possible that a dietary change is the causal factor, but it’s by no means “a clear indication.”