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I was listening to a physician and RD on the radio this morning talking about how misguided the Paleo diet is. The authors of this diet don't really understand how our ancestors live. And the the NHS and many other knowledgeable people consider the Paloe diet to be a FAD with no medical merit

An article in Science Based Medicine summarizes it this way

"CAM and the Paleo diet share this fear of modernity as an underlying assumption even as their advocates use and misuse evolution to "prove" their worth. This is nothing new, and the rationale behind the Paleo diet is nothing more than, as Zuk has put it, the evolutionary search for our perfect past. Unfortunately, fantasy is not reality, and we humans have long been known to abuse and despoil our environment, even back in those "paleo" days. Indeed, when I took a prehistoric archeology course, which was largely dedicated to the period of time of the hunter-gatherers, one thing I remember my professor pointing out, and that was that what he did was largely the study of prehistoric garbage and that humans have always produced a lot of it."

It's a part of my paleo fantasy, it's a part of my paleo dream

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