paelofantasy

Tell us if you found a gem or a piece of shit, and who peddled it

Moderator: Dux


Topic author
dead man walking
Sergeant Commanding
Posts: 6797
Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:34 pm

paelofantasy

Post by dead man walking »

new book about how wrong-headed paleo is. haven't read it, but saw a review.
[The author] argues that the line of thinking that animates much of paleo living begins with some questionable premises. “The notion that humans got to a point in evolutionary history where their bodies were somehow in sync with the environment … reflects a misunderstanding of evolution,” Zuk writes. “What we are able to eat and thrive on depends on our more than 30 million years of history as primates, not on a single, arbitrarily more recent moment in time”—that is, not merely on some hunter-gatherer fantasy.
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk.
Attempts to mimic the eating habits of our foraging relatives results from a confused understanding of our history. According to Zuk, humans ate different foods in different places, and “thrived on the variety.”

Perhaps the biggest paleo-fallacy identified by Zuk is the assumption that our biology has somehow stopped changing since the dawn of agriculture. She notes that there’s “a strong body of evidence” that our genome has changed as we spread across the world and discovered farming, “making it difficult at best to point to a single way of eating to which we were, and remain, best suited.”
Really Big Strong Guy: There are a plethora of psychopaths among us.

User avatar

buckethead
Sergeant Commanding
Posts: 6638
Joined: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:25 pm
Location: The Rockies

Re: paelofantasy

Post by buckethead »

They didn't just eat bacon and almonds?

User avatar

Fat Cat
Jesus Christ®
Posts: 41334
Joined: Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:54 pm
Location: 悪を根付かせるな

Re: paelofantasy

Post by Fat Cat »

Wine and cheese is paleo rite?
Image
"I have longed for shipwrecks, for havoc and violent death.” - Havoc, T. Kristensen

User avatar

The Crawdaddy
Top
Posts: 1834
Joined: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:51 pm
Location: Not punching holes in the ocean

Re: paelofantasy

Post by The Crawdaddy »

Fat Cat wrote:Wine and cheese is paleo rite?
Absolutely!
Blaidd Drwg wrote:90% of the people lifting in gyms are doing it on "feel" and what they really "feel" like is being a lazy fuck.
"A good man always knows his limitations..." -- "Dirty" Harry Callahan


JamesonBushmill
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 441
Joined: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:07 pm
Location: Balanced precariously on the end of Eva's Clit

Re: paelofantasy

Post by JamesonBushmill »

as long as pussy, whiskey and ice cream stay paleo, nothing else matters.
Females who wear heels emulate the gait patterns of wounded and/or compromised prey and thus inspire males to heights of predatorial chasse-a-tude. - Robb Wolf

User avatar

Holland Oates
Lifetime IGer
Posts: 14137
Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:32 am
Location: GAWD'S Country
Contact:

Re: paelofantasy

Post by Holland Oates »

JamesonBushmill wrote:as long as pussy, whiskey and ice cream stay paleo, nothing else matters.
Amen!


TerryB
Sergeant Commanding
Posts: 9697
Joined: Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:17 pm

Re: paelofantasy

Post by TerryB »

JamesonBushmill wrote:as long as pussy, whiskey and ice cream stay paleo, nothing else matters.
I nominate JamesonBushmill as permanent Administrator and MOderator.
"Know that! & Know it deep you fucking loser!"

Image

Post Reply