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Couple of questions I have for anyone in the know about this. While we may have not evolved a great deal over the last 30 thousand or so years, our bacteria ma
by lugg 12y ago
Couple of questions I have for anyone in the know about this.
While we may have not evolved a great deal over the last 30 thousand or so years, our bacteria may well have. That would cover our entire digestion systems mouth to anus. I suspect those bacteria have evolved in many ways that may mean we can eat a more modern diet without doing any harm or perhaps doing better. Has this been covered by any of the studies?
I have to question the avoidance of things like bread. Even in Paleolithic times we had crude forms of processed grains and bread. Are proponents of palaeo saying to cut these out completely or just cut out the highly refined kinds?
- mariusz79 12y agoPaleo Diet is not really a best name to the describe this diet. Better name would be "hunter-gatherer diet" but that's not too marketable. The whole premise of this diet can be summarized as this: - eat what you can kill - eat what you can gather - eat only stuff that can be eaten raw (that includes meat and fish)
- ben_straub 12y agoTodays grains are actually a highly-processed food that you can't really digest when they're raw. There's no one simple rule for food on paleo/primal, but one rule of thumb is "feel free to cook, but only eat things you could eat raw."