answer to Paleo Diet?

debdelilah

The Paleo Diet is usually meat centric, allowing for only 23% of carbs(with some variations allowing more). And I was reading about it on the forum along with other low carb variations - there are so many advocates of low carb diets now that it is hard to ignore/disregard it, so I have been studying and thinking about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html

I realize that humans in the ice age probably ate more meat, less plants - but is that because plants were less available in the ice age in general, due to the climate?

Chimpanzees are omnivores like we are, and they primarily eat fruit, leaves, buds and blossoms.

Thoughts?

neanderthin

The Paleo Diet is usually meat centric, allowing for only 23% of carbs(with some variations allowing more). And I was reading about it on the forum along with other low carb variations - there are so many advocates of low carb diets now that it is hard to ignore/disregard it, so I have been studying and thinking about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html

I realize that humans in the ice age probably ate more meat, less plants - but is that because plants were less available in the ice age in general, due to the climate?

Chimpanzees are omnivores like we are, and they primarily eat fruit, leaves, buds and blossoms.

Thoughts?

There is some dogma that paleo is pretty low carb and for some H-G-ers that's probably true, especially the further north or south of the equator we went, but most modern indigenous people sans the Inuit and Masai consume lots of carbs, which basically tells us, we can formulate it any way that works towards your goals and you wouldn't somehow be in violation to how ever is the king of paleo. just kidding. As far as chimps consuming primarily leaves, buds etc, yes those were easy, they were first and foremost tree dwellers, as we were a few million years ago. Things have changed.

As far as red meat is concerned, as soon as someone conducts a progressive controlled experiment and not hang their hat on observational then their can never be any cause and effect conclusively, variables need to be controlled, period. Do these observational epidemiology studies over 10 or 20 years do that, no. What they do do is ask questions they extrapolate data. for example any time red meat is studied like this the quartile that consumes the most red meat is always at the disadvantage of being lumped into the group that smokes the most, doesn't exercise, consumes copious amounts of processed foods, including processed meats, sugar, refined carbs which we all know lead down the same path......junk science at it's best. imo of course

Firefox7275

The Paleo Diet is usually meat centric, allowing for only 23% of carbs(with some variations allowing more). And I was reading about it on the forum along with other low carb variations - there are so many advocates of low carb diets now that it is hard to ignore/disregard it, so I have been studying and thinking about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html

I realize that humans in the ice age probably ate more meat, less plants - but is that because plants were less available in the ice age in general, due to the climate?

Chimpanzees are omnivores like we are, and they primarily eat fruit, leaves, buds and blossoms.

Thoughts?

Less plants by volume or by calorie? Part of the issue is when you draw a line in the sand, what date. They likely ate quite a lot of plants but primarily seasonally, less quantity of the calorie dense stuff like grains and more of the lower calorie stuff like fruits and veggies. Fish and seafood likely played a large role for many groups, look at the 'Out of Africa' theory maps and consider that omega-3s are essential.