For Those Considering the Paleo Diet

NanRunsOnPaleo

I think you are confused by what I said. I did not say it was dangerous. I said there is not enough evidence for people on ethics committees to determine the approach as generally safe and there is certainly a lot of evidence (which does not use the actual diet or approach) that suggests that it MAY be unsafe. Sure, your diet MAY contain carbs, but in general the diet approach encourages higher protein because of the things that are limited (grains, fruit, dairy). I wasn't criticising the diet - merely pointing out why the obvious gaps in nutrition/health research exist.

Actually fat intake should be higher than protein. Paleo is not high protein and should not be. It should be high fat, moderate protein and low carb, especially when wanting to lose weight.

Maintaining of course the fat intake will go down a bit, protein and carb counts will raise, but all will still be in balance.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. I thought Protein was to be the highest...... I didn't know it was totally and absolutely okay to go really high in fat, even good fat. I've been trying to go the other way aaround.. and I have 50 pounds that I desperately need to lose.

freerange

I think you are confused by what I said. I did not say it was dangerous. I said there is not enough evidence for people on ethics committees to determine the approach as generally safe and there is certainly a lot of evidence (which does not use the actual diet or approach) that suggests that it MAY be unsafe. Sure, your diet MAY contain carbs, but in general the diet approach encourages higher protein because of the things that are limited (grains, fruit, dairy). I wasn't criticising the diet - merely pointing out why the obvious gaps in nutrition/health research exist.

Actually fat intake should be higher than protein. Paleo is not high protein and should not be. It should be high fat, moderate protein and low carb, especially when wanting to lose weight.

Maintaining of course the fat intake will go down a bit, protein and carb counts will raise, but all will still be in balance.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. I thought Protein was to be the highest...... I didn't know it was totally and absolutely okay to go really high in fat, even good fat. I've been trying to go the other way aaround.. and I have 50 pounds that I desperately need to lose.

Go over to Mark's daily apple, http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ and read up on it more, there is a lot of good info there.