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What Exactly Is the Paleo Diet?
Let’s be realistic: There’s no way to eat a Stone Age diet these days unless you live off the land, hunting, fishing, and gathering from what’s naturally available in the wild. Few can do that,...
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How Long Have Our Ancestors Been Cooking With Fire?
Earlier this month I mentioned that biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham estimates hominins tamed fire and started cooking with it 1.8 million years ago. A recent article at Slate reviews the...
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A Default Position on the Omega-6/Omega-3 Debate
ASBMB Today has a well-written balanced article on the omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid ratio debate written by Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay. A fair amount of it is understandable to non-science majors. The...
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Paleo Pioneer S. Boyd Eaton’s Personal Lifestyle
Dr. Eaton (M.D.) spoke at the last Ancestral Health Symposium about his own diet and exercise program. He’s 74-years-old and has been following his paleo lifestyle for 30 years. In this video, Dr....
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Git’R Done: Efficient Exercise For Those Who Don’t Enjoy It
I hate exercising. I’d rather watch TV, play Parcheesi, play my mandolin, bowl, go to a movie, sleep, blog, surf the ‘net, work on my next book, fish, visit with my wife and kids, practice shooting,...
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Steve Sailer on the Paleo Diet
In addition to an iconic picture of Raquel Welch, Steve Sailer at VDare has posted an article on the paleo diet. It’s mostly about whether the Paleolithic analogy is pertinent to modern times. An...
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Once Again, There Is No “Paleo Diet”
David Despain, reports on “The Evolution of Human Nutrition” meeting of December, 2012. Example: Want to eat a diet that mimics that of our Paleolithic ancestors? It might be a little more complicated...
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Matthew Yglesias Says “Paleo Diet Is Nonsense Science”
Here’s his brief article at Slate. Mr. Yglesias was apparently influenced by Marlene Zuk. Well, now that that’s settled, I can shut down this blog and start another hobby. Since Loren Cordain...
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My Critique of the Joslin Critique of the Paleo Diet
The Joslin Diabetes Blog yesterday reviewed the paleo diet as applied to both diabetes and the general public. They weren’t very favorably impressed with it. But in view of Joslin’s great reputation,...
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Anthropologist Debunks the Paleolithic Diet
Christina Warinner has a new TEDx talk on the paleo diet. Dr. Warinner has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard, so I’ll call her an anthropologist. The written TEDx intro mentions she is a...
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Seminal Article by Loren Cordain, Ph.D.
I have little to say about it. Just wanted it in my database: “The Nutritional Characteristics of a Contemporary Diet Based Upon Paleolithic Food Groups” in Journal of the American Neutraceutical...
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Is the Paleo Diet Truly Low-Carb After All?
Lifextension argues that very case in a recent blog post. If the paleo diet is low carb, then it’s going to be heavily animal-based. According to Lifextension: Diachronic and comparative analysis of...
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Who Invented Clothes?
Archeologist Suzi Gage suggests the answer in an article at The Guardian: Quite astonishingly, there is physical evidence that Neanderthals more than 100,000 years ago were tanning animal skins – a...
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Were Hominins Eating Grains 3 Million Years Ago?
A guest blogger at Discover magazine tackles some recent evidence that our hominin ancestors ate more grain than we might think. Her conclusion: So while there remains little doubt that many modern...
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“Scientific American” Pooh-Pooh’s the Paleo Diet
Click through for details. The writer mentions our pals Marlene Zuk and Christine Warinner. A snippet: The Paleo diet not only misunderstands how our own species, the organisms inside our bodies and...
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A Theoretical Framework For Evolutionary Medicine
If you’re scientifically inclined, you’ll enjoy perusing the following article. Otherwise, quit now before it’s too late. “Lifestyle and nutritional imbalances associated with Western diseases: causes...
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I’ve Never Had Much Interest in the Kitavans…
…but maybe you have. If so, click over to Science-Based Medicine for Dr. Harriet Hall’s thoughts on them and Staffan Lindeberg’s seminal nutrition study. This is her second recent post on ancestral...
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The Argument Against Starches, Safe or Otherwise
Lifextension argues it as well as anyone I’ve read. Some quotes: Chimpanzees produce salivary amylase to digest fruit; similarly, carnivores also possess amylase in order to process the glycogen...
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Dr. Guyenet Makes a Case for Beans in the Paleo Diet
As an introduction, he writes… The canonical Paleolithic diet approach excludes legumes because they were supposedly not part of our ancestral dietary pattern. I’m going to argue here that there is...
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Have You Heard It’s Better to Squat Than Sit While Defecating?
It may prevent hemorrhoids, according to a writer at Slate. I first heard about this debate around three years ago, probably at Mark’s Daily Apple. You don’t hear about it much now. An article at...
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