The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications

Chet Day ^ | Unknown | An Interview with Loren Cordain

[Pharmboy]

Old stones at that.

[Pharmboy]

Ping*

[T'wit]

How do "old stones" differ from "old stones?" Did they eat italicized stones? But you only find those in Italy, don't you?

[Pharmboy]

When I re-read your original post all I could say was "D'oh!"

Game, set and match to you, my friend. No Twit you; certainly a wit.

[mykdsmom]

When I was big into low carb eating I belonged to a low carb listserv and Ray Audette the author of Neanderthin was a member. Have you read his book?

I was very interested in his posts and even made some of the beef jerky recipies in a dehydrator. He was big into making pemmican too if I remember right.

I wasn't able to lost weight on the Atkins diet but I did feel the best I've even felt in recent memory. I know that carbs are pure poison for my body but want the reward of weight loss that goes with the diet. That I could never achieve.

So now I feel like crap and I'm fat : ( WWAAAA...think I'll have another beer.

MKM

[T'wit]

I am going to stick to a tender neolithic diet. Old stones are too tough and they've lost most of their flavor.

[T'wit]

You'll do just anything to get a photo of breasts into Free Republic, won't you?

:-)

[Snuffington]

I hope people will take into context the fact that paleolithic humans rarely lived into their 30's. A diet suited for paleolithic hunter-gatherers isn't necessarily going to be ideal for us today, because, with very few exceptions, we don't live like cavemen.

[1234]

YUP; O positive blood type.
hope folks are familiar w/"eat right for your type"-fregards

[T'wit]

> but want the reward of weight loss that goes with the diet.

High protein, very little fat of any kind, and enough carbs to keep your tummy from making disgusting noises. Keep calorie intake under daily energy use. You will lose weight.

[arielb]

Want to live until 30? Fine eat like a caveman. The Chinese and Japanese eat a high carb diet (they eat mostly rice-not General Tso's Chicken) and they have the highest life expectancies

[jocon307]

THE KEY, the ABSOLUTE KEY is to eat a well balanced diet, eat what you crave, what your people (your ethnic group, not some cave ancestors) eat in moderation, don't be a pig, and STAY AWAY FROM CRAP. Also, you got to move, you got to move, as the Rolling Stones sang.

In point of dietary fact, no amount beer is too much, look at the Germans, they drink enough beer to float a boat, and they still excell at sports!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Evolutionary theory suggests that the diet of Paleolithic Man was designed to maximize health during breeding years rather than long life per se. I guess the author wasn't trying to say: "Suck rocks!" (Or even "Rock sucks!")

Perhaps an Oxygen movie title here: "Andrea Yates, the Breeding Years"

[Age of Reason]

The fossil record indicates that early farmers, compared to their hunter-gatherer predecessors had a characteristic reduction in stature, an increase in infant mortality, a reduction in life span, an increased incidence of infectious diseases, an increase in iron deficiency anemia, an increased incidence of osteomalacia, porotic hyperostosis and other bone mineral disorders and an increase in the number of dental caries and enamel defects. Early agriculture did not bring about increases in health, but rather the opposite. It has only been in the past 100 years or so with the advent of high tech, mechanized farming and animal husbandry that the trend has changed.

Just what I've been saying around here, over and over.

Agriculture was not developed because it was easier than hunter gathering, except when attempting to hunt and gather in an overpopulated world.

Technology has always been the art of making more from less--and usually the more is of an poorer quality than the original.

[LarryLied]

the diet of pre-agricultural humans was derived primarily from animal based foods.

So why do we have teeth designed for a mixed diet, one which is not primarily meat? Our intestines would be shorter too if meat was our predominate food.

[rightofrush]

You'll do just anything to get a photo of breasts into Free Republic, won't you?

Chickens have one breast. Men have one breast. Woemen have one breast and two tits.

[cpdiii]

The diet of the Paleolithics was one designed for a short life i.e. 30 to 40 years. A high protein and fat diet would be advantageous because of the high caloric content. This would allow them to live and reproduce and then die at a relatively young age. The reason we are now a agricultural society as opposed to a hunter society is the agricultural society is superior to the hunter in reference to longivity. The reason the agricultural society suffers so many diseases is they live a hell of a lot longer and get old. The hunters died young.

PS
I am hoplessly addicted to a high protein diet.

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[T'wit]

> Woemen have one breast and two tits.

Maybe we haven't dated the same woemen.

[T'wit]

Y'know, I was thinking earlier that Demosthenes used to walk around with a mouthful of rocks. The old explanation was that he was working on his pronunciation and oratory skills. I think we just found the truth: he was on a paleolithic diet.