As far as I can tell, Paleo is based off of the premise that humanoids were never sexier or healthier than when they were cavemen. Even though they had no birth control or Penicillin or dental floss, and everyone was probably covered in lice…
As far as I can tell, Paleo is based off of the premise that humanoids were never sexier or healthier than when they were cavemen. Even though they had no birth control or Penicillin or dental floss, and everyone was probably covered in lice…
They were honest-to-God covered with lice.
http://www.livescience.com/41028-lice-reveal-clues-to-human-evolution.html
http://www.livescience.com/2291-lice-shed-light-ancient-history-americas.html
Im thinking a true paleo diet would be more replicated by the Bushman of the Kalahari than the one the press gives us. likely more fish and shellfish consumed than wooly mammoths for most of the world. During the iceage , the population would mostly move south away from the edge along with the herds but probably clustered along coast lines , which would have had huge plains with the lower sea level.
or a plains indian diet prior to the establishment of KFCs .
no bannock , but mostly meat and assorted roots and berries
“…likely more fish and shellfish consumed than wooly mammoths…”
Yes, I think fish and small game are slightly easier to catch.
Oh, and as I remarked elsewhere, if you’re replicating true paleo, and you’re aged 54+, you’re supposed to be dead now.
I dunno paleo but I won’t touch processed or fast foods. Also no sugar period, very little bread (whole wheat occasionally) and no added salt to anything.
Havent had a coke type drink in 20 years, only coffee, juice, or water (bottled). Very little dairy, except occasional eggs. Pork & chicken well cooked, everything else from medium rare to raw (yes plenty of Sushi & steak tartar)
Veggies few but raw or steamed.
Oh my god I may be a communist.
well that sure explains your comprehension deficit. Me I eat everything you shouldn’t, and still breath, then maybe I’m dead and don’t know it
“Also no sugar period”
Any yet by your own admission you drink juice, so you’ve no idea what you’re talking about.
One my favorite quotes is by Thomas Hobbes. It addresses the back to nature, noble savage types like
Thoreau and Rousseau. Primitive life was no picnic, it was a day to day struggle for anything more
than a starvation diet, constant tribal warfare and danger from hungry beasts:
“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Most of the tree-huggers see just such a future for
all of us. Romantic and noble my fat hairy ass!
“One my favorite quotes is by Thomas Hobbes. It addresses the back to nature, noble savage types like Thoreau and Rousseau.”
While Thoreau was at his cabin on Walden Pond contemplating the simpler life of the noble savage, he used to send all his laundry home to his mother to be cleaned.
There was no one true Paleo diet. Mammoths were certainly on the menu of many groups. The evidence indicated humans and dogs co-evolved for hunting. Unfortunately, humans were too good at it and each continent or large island that had large mammals or birds saw them all go extinct not long after humans arrived. Then humans had to shift to smaller quarry.
In terms of health and general well being, Yuval Noah Harari nails it in his book Sapiens. Agricultural has been history’s greatest fraud: Hobbes was an apologist for the great wealth disparity that agriculture enabled. Life expectancy didn’t start going up until scientific method came to fruition post-Bacon and improved medicine.
So a few of us read this on FB yesterday and had a few laughs.
It was satire…wasn’t it?
And Robert posted the same link…slow news day?
“…noble savage types like Thoreau and Rousseau…”
Somehow I can’t characterize Rousseau as a “noble savage”; perhaps you meant “savage noble”
Always remember Fred Flintstones great big steaks
I guess if you want to go full monte “paleo” you’ll eat a lot of fresh and live food, occasionally heating it over a fire pit to go easier on your rotted teeth – you will constantly hungry yet weak and tin because you have a major dose of worms and other ingested parasites –MMMMM paleo tonight dear, I chased the dogs off this lovely fresh kill, pull some fresh dandelions and we’re eating like the top of te food chain.
A reasonable diet can be constructed following two bits of advice: shop the perimeter of the store… Fruits, vegetables dairy, meat fish and blissful cheese; never eat anything your grandmother would not recognize as food.
And yes I did steal these from Michael Pollan.
Eat health, stay fit and die anyway.
*healthy
Sheesh, starting to sound like OK/new!
Could be the lack of pork in my diet lately! I did see a fascinating video for bacon wrapped grilled cheese today!
Throughout most of human history (including our distant ancestors like Homo Erectus) …
… humans ate meat almost exclusively, as in 98%.
In the last 1.8 million years since Homo Erectus became a hunter, 75% of the time, it was a very cold, low CO2, low rainfall, ice age. There was no trees, no vegetables, no nuts, and no fruits almost anywhere. There was only grassland, savanna and desert everywhere (except where the glaciers where).
… But what there was in abundance, was the large grassland herbivores. Big wild cattle, big buffalo, big deer and lots of smaller animals as well because there was grassland everywhere.
… What does a two-legged efficiently running hunter that can sweat to cool off (we sweat more than any other animal, orders of magnitude more, the horse is the next closest species but that is about it). We also lost our body hair to help with the cooling provided by that sweating and we also had new weapons like wooden spears and the handaxe to …
… humans hunted the large grass herbivores and ate meat almost exclusively because that is ALL there was. We became good at running/jogging the herbivores down until they collapsed due to heat exhaustion because they have to pant to cool off (non-sweating that is) and they couldn’t sustain a longer more-than-1-km run while we had no problem with that. After hunkering down in whatever shade there was in the mid-day, they became easy prey for the new king of the day-time savanna, us.
… The “paleo” diet was steaks over a fire (until 13,000 years ago when the trees came back).
For some reason, this is a little known story about our history.