VegesaurusRex

Agree with everything you say. In addition, to being a commercialized fad diet, paleo is also extremely ineffective: Out of 25 diets, it is rated 25th, with approximately 24000 out of approximately 31,000 who tried it saying it did not help them. Check out other diets, like the vegetarian diet:…

Hear, hear! This is not the thread to talk about current biology with regards to diet, but if one started I would love to participate. I am, as you may have seen, really good at citing studies. As for the proper music? I know what I like.

I'm exhausted by reading this thread. It doesn't look like too many "Paleos" have replied, aside from a few really boring cat fights. So... here's what this "Paleo" thought of the article. "An entire class of self-help books recommends a return to the diets of our ancestors. Paleolithic diets, caveman diets, primal diets…

You are quite right. I was out of line. I apologize to any offended by this.

I should also mention that the article that Professor Bozzo said was "Contrarian" also addressed this point and stated the hypothesis that communal activities, better care of children and working together for the safety of the community would also explain the increase in brain size. But because Professor Bozzo said that…

Yes, you are referring to the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis that Professor Bozzo was talking about like it was some big mystery. This is the hypothesis that certain tissue is more expensive in terms of energy than other tissue. As I understand it, it means that an organ like the brain which is 22 times more expensive than…

Talking to you is like talking to a creationist. It's true because your Bible says it's true. Hey, I bet you went to MIT -Mississippi Institute of Technology!

Like I said, you wouldn't want to compare academic or professional accomplishments. I'm sure I wouldn't know anything about Joseph Wharton either, right? By the way, rather than traipsing through the streets of West Philly, you would have done well to take a logic and rhetoric class when you were at Penn. You might want to…

You truly make me laugh. If you had anything worth saying you would have said it. All you are doing is posturing and dancing around some imaginary Maypole. Talk about something other than how great you are, how much you supposedly know, and what you want me to answer for you. Say something of substance. But then, I really…

So the theory behind it, its philosophical grounding, its raison d'etre is wrong, but the diet is good. Holy miracle, Batman! Can you say wishful thinking?

Every major study on meat eating since the Framingham study in the 1940's, The China Study, the Nurses Study dozens of studies from England, Germany and other places all disagree with you. Meat in quantities of more than 70 g per week is harmful to you (the amount varies with different studies, but the message is the same.…

Let me try to spoonfeed this to you so that your fragile ego doesn't get any more bruised. ******************** My ego is in very good shape,thank you. But I know BS when I see it. And I am seeing a lot of it. You are not answering anything, you are demanding, condescending and obnoxious. In my experience people who act…

Okay, your response sucks. Like VOV says, if you have something to say, say it. If you want to have a real conversation, I am fine with that. If you want to act like a dork, fine but I am not participating. Just for example, you implied that the author of that article was receiving money from raw foodist groups, which…

I don't remember saying they were. Nor were insects likely a major part of the Hominid diet prior to Homo erectus.

I finished reading the article and found it meandering, patronizing, and in many places, an example of lazy scholarship. Parenthetically, I have no dog in this fight; I don't eat "Paleo," and I'm not a vegan. ************ I found it humorous and substantially in accord with every anthro course I ever had. *********** The…

Look, I didn't write the article, but I did understand it. It said what it said.

The article supports what most true Paleo dieters say: eat whole fruits and veggies and supplement with meat. The reason the article seems to be anti-paleo is because it starts on a false premise: the paleo diet concentrates on meat with a supplement of fruits and veggies. *********************** No, that is not what the…

Have you ever looked up the lifespan of the Inuits? You might want to do so. Before exposure to white man's food, their lifespan was about 47 years. Now it is between 64 and 67 years. What the article said was the only thing we know for CERTAIN was that from Hominids to Anatomically Modern Humans, the most common food was…

Agree with everything you said.

According to the article, that was probably authentic Paleo.

Okay. Trying to keep this discussion on the article. Sticking it to twatwaffles may be fun and overall a good thing do to, but doing it in this discussion is not really on topic. Please read the article if you haven't and then comment.

Any time a Veggie/vegan goes off about Paleo diets it always ends up a we are better than them kind of thing. People who identify as eating a Paleo/Primal diet do not ever generally think they are truly eating as our ancestors did, but contend that what is being recommended as healthy food right now isn't, and that taking…

I just tried the link. It works. Here it is again: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/07/23/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/ Also, I read other journals such as PNAS, PLoS ONE, Science, and Nature, among many many others. SA's articles are written by the top people in their field, and would…

Really? You consume a lot of insects? It seems we are overrun with people who are too lazy to read the article.

Hello! This is not a thread about what diets can be beneficial (although I completely disagree with your statement) This is an tread about what the Paleo Diet is/should be/ must be/ actually was.

Speak for yourself.

Have you read the article? You might want to. There is no trashing of the diet, but there is an honest attempt to try to undersand what the Paleo Diet really was. (Hint: it is not what the Paleos believe it is.)

Of course. The article pointed out that the Russian Colon was much longer than the Turkish Colon. Probably the Russians ate fewer insects than the Turks, or perhaps the Turks all lived near water and ate fish. In any event, the author, after being equivocal about what the real Paleo diet was, gave us a hint as to what he…

LOL!!!!!!

Let's hope that he made those comments for the benefit of the rather unsophisticated voters who elected him. If he actually believes that and sits on a science committee that is really scary,