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Didn't quite get the Paleo diet reference: are you viewing it as a new (and thus suspicious) fad or as an old, safe and proven way of eating?
by nickpp 16y ago
Didn't quite get the Paleo diet reference: are you viewing it as a new (and thus suspicious) fad or as an old, safe and proven way of eating?
- kilian 16y agoThis confused me as well, seeing how it's both at the same time. :) With regards to the diet itself though: works for me, so I'm happy with it.
- nickpp 16y agoI happen to follow a rather different, mostly vegan, diet: Fuhrman. It also works very well for me. But I would like to educate myself about paleo, especially since it provides some compelling arguments while sounding yummy.
- kilian 16y agoI started eating primal/paleo/low carb (I prefer the latter) after reading 'good calories, bad calories' by Gary Taubes. I've been linking people to these notes for a while now: http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-bad-calories/ http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba... you miss some nuances, explainations and a boatload of references from the book, but it's a nice intro. As far as being vegan goes, check out 'the vegetarian myth' by Leirre Keith, I've been reading parts of it and it's both entertaining and it really gets under your skin.
- peregrine 16y agoAgreed. I've been trying to go towards a more whole food approach to eating and avoiding processed foods. But what is PG's opinion here?
- hristov 16y agoIMO, it is obvious that he views it as new and suspicious.
- tremendo 16y agoTo me it makes sense in the context: > we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how At its most basic Paleo Nutrition is mostly about avoiding or minimizing so-called neolithic agents of disease: refined carbohydrates, grains, processed oils. > It will actually become a reasonable strategy… to suspect everything new It may be that thinking of it as a "modern" approach to nutrition (ironic in that it's supposed to be the "ancestral" way of eating, but the linked Wikipedia article does call it modern) can help the adoption of the Paleo diet, because "it's new" and because it's new, "addictive".