6 thoughts on “Paleoista”

  2. I have been following this for a long time with people like Cordain. Half of it makes sense but half is crock. Hunter gatherers did consume carbohydrates. That would be the gathering part. There are plenty of edible roots which do not require cooking like carrots. There are also pine nuts and other nuts which can be eaten safely without cooking after shelling. The same goes for berries. To think Paleolithic hunter gatherers did not eat these resources is simply, well, nuts.

    1. “Hunter gatherers did consume carbohydrates.”

      I am by no means an expert on the Paleo diet, but I never understood paleos to say that you do not eat carbos. My understanding is that you didn’t eat that which couldn’t be cooked on a stick over a fire (if it needed cooking at all).

      So that meant that, yeah they’d eat blueberries but didn’t have blueberry pie. And that they wouldn’t eat wheat off the stalk and also didn’t eat bread.

      Oranges, peaches, apples were all eaten, I would think, if they found them.

      1. Well, a lot of people tend to confuse the Paleolithic diet with the Atkins Diet and the Raw Foods diet. They are not the same thing. For example a people doing the Raw Foods diet will say drinking cow’s milk is fine while a Paleolithic dietist may say its a bad idea since animal husbandry is another development of the Neolithic. Although it is questionable if humans did not drink other animals milk even then I think. Then there are the Atkins diet people. Some are simply nuts and say you shouldn’t even eat an Apple or you’ll kill the diet. There is a balance out there but you need to be able to think for yourself.

  3. Also people who consume milk in their infancy are taller on average as adults. This is well documented as a case study in Japan. I think Cordain says this as well which was a nice jab at macrobiotics which was a truly ghastly movement.

  4. When I first clicked on the link I thought it said “Neal Stephenson”…I could see him doing paleo though.

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