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 halfmeasures rated 14 months ago- From the page: "Around 10,000 years ago, an enormous breakthrough was made- a breakthrough that was to change the course of history, and our diet, forever. This breakthrough was the discovery that cooking these foods made them edible- the heat destroyed enough toxins to render them edible. Grai...
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- kaamran rated 3 months ago
- I dont care about the history but the diet looks healthy.
- sky1blue2 rated 10 months ago
- This is mindblowing stuff! I changed my diet but the bit about potatoes and beans really suprised me! Hopefully now I can get things right. Wow!
- philh74a rated 5 months ago
- The Paleo diet for weight loss - interesting concepts to try.
 smebro rated 7 months ago- From the page: "Antinutrients are very real and for over 100 years research has been done on them- but it is generally only appreciated by a small group of specialized scientists. "
Well it has the word nutrient... and begins with 'anti'... perhaps there is hard science behind this! Science that only specialized scientists will appreciate.
Also see line "More romantic souls like to think of it as the diet that was eaten in the "Garden of Eden" and they are correct in thinking so."
Sense makes none.
- toillat rated 10 months ago
- Interesting stuff. The reason for the low occurence of poor eyesight and other ailments could just as well be that the hunter-gatherer tribes are to a larger degree subject to natural selection than the modern day man, with our glasses, heart surgery, pogo sticks and vacuum cleaners.
- Dudley3 rated 7 months ago
- This is an interesting combination of history and diet.
- dearknucklehead rated 9 months ago
- I like DeVany better, but this is some good introductory stuff.
- ShawtyIsA10 rated 9 months ago
- thanks for nothing hippie
- DarklingLuna rated 9 months ago
- Paleolithic diet. If one is on a quest for healthier living this article is certainly one to think about.
- ajanelle rated 10 months ago
- I call BS. Just to begin with, breakfast would not be the easiest meal to change as the author claims it is closest to the paleolithic diet. Why make up something as obvious as this. Breakfast for most people consists entirely of these evil grains and useless dairy products the article is complaining about. Not to mention the fact that raw potatoes are not poisonous, that they were first cultivated 8000 years ago which doesn't quite add up on the authors timetable, that uncooked grains can be eaten by people and are eaten by many animals. Apparently, there are some poisonous beans, but I've eaten more than my share of uncooked and undercooked green beans, and they are obviously not much of a risk.
Moreover, the article contradicts itself by stating the obvious benefits to adapting things such as grains, beans, and potatoes into the human diet: increased consumable calories for increased population. How then could we (all 6+ billion of us) revert to a diet that was obviously inadequate for the much much smaller paleolithc population?
Not to mention, these modern-day hunter-gatherers would be faster and stronger than your average couch potato for very obvious reasons related to physical activity. Additionally, how does "BPG" consumption effect rats, which are similar to humans, by stifling weight gain while we "civilized" humans are so much fatter than our contemporary and past hunter-gatherer brethren??
I might actually give this diet a try, anyway. Maybe this poorly written and reasoned article holds a bit of truth, ya never know.
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