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All the more reason for them to be fanatical about their claims now. I'm not accusing them of being any worse then some of the Paleo guys, just indicating their motives can be called into question just as easily.

I certainly agree it's possible although I don't think you know that with certainty. It's interesting in itself that they adapted well to this type of diet or were they already adapted to it? :) It does indicate that we can be healthy on this sort of diet and even live to a ripe old age, the question being is does it take…

That's very interesting. Thanks for enlightening me. I think if I were eating vegan I'd probably allow eggs, especially if they came from my own hens or from a responsible farmer especially since eggs are a wonderful source of lots of nutrients.

Oh believe me, as someone who has been overweight since he was a kid, I've done the yo-yo thing so many times. It really applies to any diet, it needs to be a lifestyle change, not a quick fix. You have to change your whole attitude, your relationship with food and exercise. Going from obese to thin is truly one of the…

One thing I've wondered about with vegans is the reasoning behind not eating eggs. Is it because it represents the potential for a life form? It's not like it hurt the Hen to produce it, especially if say you had your own in your backyard. I'm not talking about whether you think eggs are healthy, I'm referring to the…

Why thank you ma'am. I did lose a lot of weight using Paleo, although in the interest of full disclosure, I actually tried different diets for a month at a time and was able to lose weight on each of them. A month probably wasn't long enough, but my devotion to my own n=1 experiment was less than my desire to just lose the…

Yes, I see that all the time. This study has XYZ limitations, caution should be applied when interpreting the results, yadda, more studies needed. Sadly, the press often run with these conclusions anyway because it sells newspapers and drives up blog hit counts. Suddenly the public is running around saying drinking diet…

I can't watch the video right now, but I'm assuming this is the nurses health study? There is value in this research for sure, I would still like to see someone figure out the mechanisms underlying what is going on. The Nurses Health study is one held up as showing the link between CHD and saturated fat consumption, but…

Oh, don't get me wrong, a well designed study, especially if you can feed the subjects and not just question them on what they ate etc. is still a useful tool. I think there are current nutritional recommendations that are not backed up by well controlled studies, or should I say there were studies but their support for…

There are some nutty cavemen types around who go back to nature, wear loin clothes and carry a spear etc. However, I think you'll find most intelligent Paleo types have no interest in leaving civilization behind. Many of the Paleo supporters are big bloggers after all, bit hard to do without high technology. :) For them…

It's basically impossible to do what you described with human beings. However, studying the whole animal all at once is not the only way. We can use a bottom up approach, eventually we will reverse engineer the entire human body, probably not in our lifetimes though. Then we can understand the mechanisms and how they…

Well, the studies are hopefully more than just a PhD's opinion. They are peer reviewed (hopefully) and thus subject to the brains of many, reducing the impact of bias, but never eliminating it. It's not that I place no value on the PhD/credentials, I just don't automatically assume their opinion is correct. I think it's…

+1 Just about everyone is in it for the money to a certain extent. Sisson, Robb Wolf etc. on the Paleo side, Ornish and so on. I should rephrase that, they all stand to gain financially from the success. I don't know what their motives are, they may be altruistic, but they probably don't mind the money too. :) Campbell is…

That is what I keep saying to your husband. :)

Well, being quite cute puts her on par with Denise I guess. LOL Denise was also a veggie for a number of years. As I've said before, you can bash it's Paleo roots, but you can also remove Paleo from the name if you like. There have been some calls to move away from the caveman concept. Remove that and what do you have. A…

freerange and veggisaurus - Seriously, tone it down. I'm surprised this thread has been reported and shut down. Other threads have been shut down for far less. The name calling is getting old, "militant veggie" and "murder with an erection" are really not called for. If you want people to listen to your point of view then…

We've had this argument before. LOL I follow it because some of the science that has been done makes sense. It intrinsically makes sense to me that a diet that tries to avoid factory farmed meat, encourages fruit and veg consumption and the avoidance of processed carbs is a healthier one. There is science to back up all of…

It's a bad article because it misrepresents the diet. They don't cover the variations in Paleo diets and it makes no citations. You can't even call it an expert opinion because the person writing the article has a degree in psychology.

Here is one of the many IF posts on Mark's Daily Apple: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fasting-weight-loss/#axzz22X7s6iCQ Search the site, there are loads of others. Robb Wolf talks about it on his blog and pod casts as well. Believe me, it's extremely common in the Paleo/Primal/Ancestral health community. Those Paleo…

As I've said before, Paleo has not been studied much yet. Would love to see a good study compare it to ornish, low fat SAD etc. I've seen nothing in what you've posted that convinces me that loads of experts think it's awful. You'll find plenty of dietitians who don't like vegan diets too btw. Just because we know about…

That was a really bad article written by a psychologist. The comments on that page completely destroy a very poorly written opinion piece. Haven't checked out the satisfaction level stuff on the usnews site but that's still pretty weak.

Love this... n=1 baby.

Actually, I would like to see evidence of this. If anything it illustrates how adaptable we are as humans in that we can survive on just about any mix of macros. It's interesting veggiusmaximus that you are making the assumption that a stick of butter is unhealthy, definite bias there, a preconception that groups like…

Lyle likes low carb diets for their better appetite suppression but he will say weight loss is all about a calorie deficit and that LC offers no magical metabolic advantage. I don't think LC provides a metabolic advantage either in my humble opinion, sadly. If only it were that simple. You do talk like someone who hasn't…

LOL, Usnews, yeah, they know what they are talking about. I've read that review. It was completely off base. The Paleo diet, by Cordain, calls for leans meats and is not a high saturated fat diet. They didn't cover all the nuances and I'm not on board with the lipid hypothesis anyway, so I don't buy the sat fat bogey man.…

Eh? IF is very popular in the Paleo and Primal communities. It's a common topic of discussion and many avid Paleo-dieters IF.

You still haven't posted those links... :)

It's always nice to see yet another contradictory piece of information about weight loss. LOL Although I appreciate you posting it. I'm really struggling with the results of this study. How on earth does someone who walks miles every day have the same energy expenditure as someone who doesn't. I can only guess those not…

Okay, veggiusmaximus, agreed that it's difficult to determine the components of the Paleo diet, although I think it's obvious it was highly varied based on local flora and fauna. I think it's safe to say that it didn't contain twinkles, wonder bread and processed corn products in just about everything. That is the major…

Okay, you raise the typical arguments against ancestral diets but are a liitle misinformed. First not all "Paleo" diets exclude dairy some do on the basis that we couldn't possibly have consumed dairy for the majority of our evolution. This doesn't prove dairy is bad for you but proponents of ancestral diets tend to view…