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If you take a very black and white approach to it I'd concede that you are correct and that there is a genuine argument being presented that you should eat like
by brd 14y ago
If you take a very black and white approach to it I'd concede that you are correct and that there is a genuine argument being presented that you should eat like a caveman and that Zuk has a point.
However, what you are copying/pasting here is marketing copy.
Diets tend to fail because people fail to adhere to them. People fail to adhere to them because they are complicated. These sites are trying to convert visitors by providing a simple, palatable message.
When you get past the sales pitch there is real science behind the paleo diet. The paleo diet started out as a hypothesis based on a paleolithic diet but the paleo diet is well supported by modern nutritional concepts and is advocated for those reasons, not simply because a caveman ate it.
edit: if the paleo diet were simply based on the premise "a caveman ate it" it would be nothing more than a fad diet that died out in the 70s.
- cromulent 14y agoFrom the 2011 "Updated to include the latest guidelines and research" version of the canonical "The Paleo Diet" by the scientist Loren Courdain who started it all: ==== You'll be following the diet that every single person on the planet ate only 333 generations ago. ... Here are the ground rules: 1. All the lean meats...you can eat 2. All the fruits and non starchy vegetables you can eat 3. No cereals 4. No legumes 5. No dairy products 6. No processed foods ==== It seems like much more than a straw man or marketing copy. http://books.google.fi/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d_lVB6HZJ4YC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Loren+Cordain&ots=LW9KK9Logo&sig=tJOKdeeHnTanHdDGYdyDLIfkkdI&redir_esc=y http://books.google.fi/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d_lVB6HZJ4... Page 23.
- jacalata 14y agoYou said the entire premise of this book is based on a straw man argument. This means 'this book is trying to discredit claims about paleo diets that nobody actually makes'. My point is that you are wrong that nobody makes those claims, here are some examples of people using exactly that description. Feel free to argue that it misrepresents the makeup of and the reasoning behind paleo diet, but don't argue they didn't say it. And if you've literally never heard someone arguing that they eat just meat and vegetables because our bodies evolved for it in the Stone Age and haven't had time to learn anything else, I envy you. Here is a fun article about some people who self describe as being 'paleo', for an example of how this 'just marketing copy' is the same as the actual justification for paleo used by many people: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10caveman.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10caveman.html?pag...