To 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

To 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".