[Pharmboy]

Just 'cause I love all you Freepers so much I want you to live a long time. Eat like cave men and women.

[SC DOC]

I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.

[CDHart]

Very interesting article. Thanks for the post!

Carolyn

[R. Scott]

Eat like cave men and women.

As long as we get the same amount of exercise and fast for a few days every few weeks.
I do think the newest food pyramid is more PC than healthy. Sorry, fed - I would make a really lousy vegetarian.

[aruanan]

Robert Crayhon, M.S. is a clinician, researcher and educator who was called "one of the top ten nutritionists in the country" by Self magazine (August 1993). An associate editor of Total Health magazine, he is the author of best-seller Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple and the just published The Carnitine Miracle (M. Evans and Company).

Researcher, ha ha ha. He has one listing in PubMed and that's for a comment on a paper in J Am Coll Nutr. 1998 Jun;17(3):207-15. And notice that that was in 1998.

Yeah, the paleolithic diet is fine if you want to live in a way that brings a life expectancy of about 25-30 years.

[T'wit]

The switch from hunter-gatherer to agriculture made much more possible than beer. It made government possible -- because farm communities, tied to the land, were easy targets for spoliation and slaves. (Hunter-gatherers have nothing worth stealing, so we never saw the state develop in their domain. See "The State" by Franz Oppenheimer, published in Germany c. 1912, as I recall.)

Government, in the fullness of time, inflicted swarms of liberals upon us, eating out our substance. If it weren't for Free Republic, we'd all be wearing chains and picking cotton. So send Jim some money -- y'hear?

[RightWhale]

This is the ancient Munro diet. Eliminate carbs altogether. Bugs and berries okay.

[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past. Topic is from 2002.

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[tomzz]

Can hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution be wrong? What are we really "designed" to eat?

You don't need to be an evo-loser to comprehend that Elaine Morgan is almost certainly correct in thinking that modern humans originally lived in water.

The original human diet was some combination of fish, shellfish, and fruit which they went up on shore for.

[razorback-bert]

I have read that they had a form of Soylent Green way back then.

[PoorMuttly]

http://www.amazon.com/Win-War-Within-Clinically-Inflamation-/dp/1594863172/ref=sr_11_1/102-7912886-0456107?ie=UTF8

Got this book yesterday. About this very subject, by Johns Hopkins dept. head. Speaks of neolithic hunter-gatherer diet, "AA Pathway," etc. I will post excerpts tomorrow...quite amazing research and conclusions.

He recommends EPA Omega 3 WITH GLA from Borage Oil, says it short-circuits inflammation key in diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, allergies, even obesity.....says modern recommended diet is 100% WRONG. Advises to avoid refined carbs, eat lean meat, green vegs....promises noticeable relief from such conditions within 10 days or so.

Quite amazing, sound research...rather compelling...at least to Dr. Muttly (played one on stage in 5th. grade, to rave reviews!)

[Renfield]

Anecdotal evidence--I think there really is value to increasing the amount of Omega-3 fatty acids in our diet. After seeing a dermatologist on Maryland Public TV explaining the importance of Omega-3, I started taking lots of fish-oil capsules (4-6 capsules/day), and my allergy problems (something I have struggled with all my life) have pretty much gone away!

I'm trying to work myself into a caveman diet. I already eat venison about 3 times a week, and lots of fish too.

[CobaltBlue]

My ancestors were Inuit. I HATE whale blubber! :(

[CobaltBlue]

Don't you find it at least interesting that as humans gave up their paleolithic diet, their civilization became much more complex? First agriculture, then architecture, the making of clay pots (which were used for, not only cooking and storing food, but chamber pots), writing, mathematics, and indoor plumbing?

In contrast, hunters and gatherers lived in huts, where the chief occupation of the males was killing each other and stealing each other's women, and the chief occupation of women, when they weren't busy being stolen, was frantically attempting to gather as many roots and berries and insects and baby birds as they could so everybody wouldn't starve to death?

The image of "man the mighty hunter" is belied by dietary studies of hunter-gatherer cultures throughout the world. Men brought home the wild meat from time to time but women brought home the calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, every day.

[toddlintown]

http://www.amazon.com/Low-Carb-Bartender-Counts-Drinks/dp/1593372531/sr=1-2/qid=1160436472/ref=sr_1_2/002-4679689-2028806?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Twinkie]

I just had a thick baloney sandwich and some green beans with fat back. Is that cave woman enough? Oh, and a couple of Reisen's candies for dessert.

[TASMANIANRED]

Eat raw meat.

[SunkenCiv]

here's one originally printed in the WSJ, reproduced at this living URL:

The Caveman Diet
by Lionel Tiger
July 9, 2002

Step back for a moment. We evolved as hunters and gatherers. Agraduate student in my Rutgers department, Matt Sponheimer, published an article in Nature in l999 showing from the micro-analysis of wear on fossil teeth that our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now... Within medicine and anthropology there has been a controversy brewing for years about the possible unhealthiness of the diet made possible -- and even necessary given our crowded planet -- by agriculture. The most popular expression of sharp wariness about particular agricultural products was the 1972 book, "Diet Revolution," in which Robert Akins argued that eating carbohydrates, especially grains -- which are cheap -- made people hungry so they ate more and burgeoned.