From 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 a

From 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.