The paleo diet is an effective "diet" plan, not health plan. Paleolithic humans/humanoids didnt live as long as health concious people today for a reason.
It is an outstanding health plan, when quality animal sources are consumed. Paleolithic humans were more robust, and had on average larger brains than moderns. Isotopic studies of skeletal/tooth remains demonstrate that animal proteins (and therefore animal fats) were foundational.
Life expectancy derives from numerous factors, but everyone coming from the veg perspective zeros in on diet as being the principal factor. At all stages of life, Paleolithic humans were on average healthier than us. By far and away, today's life expectancy is an artifact of the war on infectious disease, coupled with 20th Century advances in critical care medicine. We can save you from injuries that before were almost certainly fatal. We can also medicate you into multiple years of 'existence' with a host of degenerative diseases--have a look in any assisted care living facility. And among the more important influences in life expectancy among Paleolithic and contemporary 'primitives' was plain old homicide. Humans are violent, no different than our chimp cousins.
Across the globe, one common factor presented itself to western explorers encountering non-industrial/non-agricultural societies--absence of the 'diseases of civilization' (CVD, diabetes, obesity, periodontal disease). Those very diseases, well-known to the trained medical specialists sent to the colonial outposts, appeared among the native peoples as soon as they adopted the foodstuffs brought by to colonizers.
Inuit traditionally survived and thrived on a diet virtually devoid of plant matter. Northern Plains tribes ('Buffalo Peoples') likewise subsisted on a plant-poor diet. The Masai men, during the Moran phase of life (warrior caste), lived on blood, milk (whole and fat rich) and meat from their cattle. All of these people were phenomenally healthy until the loss or giving up of their traditional diets.
animal cholesterol is bad. the best cholesterol is produced internally, same can be said for DHA, and most amino acids using plant derivatives.
Bullshit. Animal cholesterol is exactly what you make every day, all day. What you eat, in terms of cholesterol, has almost no bearing on serum cholesterol. Cholesterol is essential to life. It comprises a major percentage of your brain by weight. It is essential to the health and function of every cell. It is the basis of synthesis of critical hormones, not least of which is testosterone.
There are no magic vegetables, no special plant source amino acids.
sodium intake should never break over 2500mg, but should really be under 2000mg a day.
modern nutrition and advocated nutrition are not in alignment. i can drag up studies to show you why you will not live as long eating paleo as opposed to vegetarian. i dont eat that much carbs, and i eat no meat or eggs at all.
Even sodium is finally being given exoneration by recent medical research. The alleged role of sodium in high blood pressure is actually rooted in the chronically elevated insulin levels caused by excessive carb intake, in particular sugars and refined starches such as wheat flour. Insulin drives the kidneys to conserve sodium. There is no alternative then but for the body to retain water to maintain sodium balance. Remove the carbs, the insulin plummets, and the kidneys promptly pull excess sodium. Low carbers almost always note a rapid loss of weight in the first few days of diet change--that is rapid loss of retained water once the kidneys are freed to do what they do. I have no fear of salt.
No need to drag up studies showing how I'm about to drop dead from eating Paleo. You need look no further than much of that body of 'research' to see shining examples of scientific incompetence. I spent much of 2011 immersed in research related to diet and health. It was fucking eye opening, to say the least. I am, and have long been, a lover of science. I discarded religion just out of high school. Majored in the sciences in college. My position is that there is no other reliable way to discover how the world works. It was dismaying in the extreme to see how badly science is done, how much of that gets published in peer-reviewed journals, and how often dissenting views don't get aired. Here in the States you need only "Follow the money" to see where much of the problem lies. Research doesn't get done without funding. Much funding comes from commercial interests. Look at how the Big Pharma operates.[/QUOTE]
an ideal diet should be 50% minimum vegetation (half cooked, half raw) 10-20% fruit 10-20 grain/oat, 10-20 %nuts 10-20 % beans/lentils
Tell that to the Inuit, Lakota, Masai, and numerous other traditional cultures.
