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| Tango01 | 18 Dec 2014 1:11 p.m. PST |
…one, study suggests. "The Paleolithic diet, or caveman diet, a weight-loss craze in which people emulate the diet of plants and animals eaten by early humans during the Stone Age, gives modern calorie-counters great freedom because those ancestral diets likely differed substantially over time and space, according to researchers at Georgia State University and Kent State University. Their findings are published in The Quarterly Review of Biology. "Based on evidence that's been gathered over many decades, there's very little evidence that any early hominids had very specialized diets or there were specific food categories that seemed particularly important, with only a few possible exceptions," said Dr. Ken Sayers, a postdoctoral researcher at the Language Research Center of Georgia State. "Some earlier workers had suggested that the diets of bears and pigs—which have an omnivorous, eclectic feeding strategy that varies greatly based on local conditions—share much in common with those of our early ancestors. The data tend to support this view." The co-author on the paper, Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, well known for his reconstructions of the socioecology and locomotor behavior of early hominids such as "Ardi" (Ardipithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old) and "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old)…"
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| Whatisitgood4atwork | 18 Dec 2014 8:29 p.m. PST |
No expert, but I'd bet the Paleo diet was 'Whatever they could get at the time.' If someone had offered them Big Macs and Twinkie bars, they'd have taken them like a shot. Why anyone would want to imitate a subsistence diet with a constant threat of starvation and the possibility of becoming part of some other creature's diet is a mystery to me. |
| Perris0707 | 18 Dec 2014 9:28 p.m. PST |
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Bunkermeister  | 18 Dec 2014 10:52 p.m. PST |
Bronto burgers? Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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| Tango01 | 19 Dec 2014 10:25 a.m. PST |
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Dr Mathias  | 20 Dec 2014 10:44 a.m. PST |
I did Paleo for about a year, best I've felt for a really long time. A new baby arrived and the 'eat what is convienient to heat up quick' diet came back into play though :( |
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