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paelofantasy

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:40 am
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.”

Re: paelofantasy

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:01 am
by buckethead
They didn't just eat bacon and almonds?

Re: paelofantasy

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:25 am
by Fat Cat
Wine and cheese is paleo rite?

Re: paelofantasy

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:35 am
by The Crawdaddy
Fat Cat wrote:Wine and cheese is paleo rite?
Absolutely!

Re: paelofantasy

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:20 pm
by JamesonBushmill
as long as pussy, whiskey and ice cream stay paleo, nothing else matters.

Re: paelofantasy

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:29 pm
by Holland Oates
JamesonBushmill wrote:as long as pussy, whiskey and ice cream stay paleo, nothing else matters.
Amen!

Re: paelofantasy

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:40 pm
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.