Friday, April 2, 2010

Excellent Post from PaleoNu

This is a flawless summary of how I view Dr. Cordain's work. His fat and salt phobias I find to be disappointing. However, there are many, many redeeming qualities in his books, and I still recommend them highly. If you have not yet read them, you'll learn a lot and enjoy the books.
http://www.paleonu.com/panu-weblog/2010/3/28/the-only-reasonable-paleo-principle.html
"My new principle or "paleolithic" principle, was just that if foods contribute to disease, it is unlikely (but not impossible) that the bad foods are what we have been eating a long time, and much more likely that they are something relatively new.  So, the way I thought of it, a food being evolutionarily novel was a likely condition for it being an agent of disease, but that novelty was neither necessary nor sufficient for agent of disease status."

It's one thing to look at any non-paleo food with a jaundiced eye, and another to pronounce it unfit for humans just on general principles (but lacking any direct evidence).

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