| Paleolithic Diet Page (Paleo Diet, Caveman Diet, Hunter/Gatherer Diet)PaleoDiet.com - The Paleolithic Diet PageWhat the Hunter/Gatherers AteBookmark This PageContents to Sections BelowSub PagesSites by IndividualsEducational InstitutionsMedia ReportsAssociations/OrganizationsCommercial SitesBooksDehydratorsFood ScienceMailing Lists/Archives/ForumsForaging and Ethnobotany LinksFood Vendor LinksAutism & DietMultiple Sclerosis & DietRheumatoid Arthritis & DietAlso see the PaleoFood.com Recipe CollectionSites by IndividualsIntroduction to the Paleolithic Diet is Ben Balzer's page. He is a family physician in Australia. Probably the clearest introduction on the web.Second Opinions is a site by Barry Groves, PhD. It includes many articles exposing dietary and medical misinformation. A selection of them:The Naïve Vegetarian is a long article covering various diets with a focus on pointing out the fallacies of vegetarianism.The Cholesterol Myth points out there is no evidence that eating cholesterol is bad.Does Animal Fat Really Cause Cancer? points out that an examination of a couple of studies that came out in July 2003 does not support the claims that media is making for them.Polyunsaturated Oils and Cancer argues that polyunsaturated oils increase cancer risk.William Banting: The Father of the Low-Carbohydrate Diet is a history of the first low carb diet, which was also paleo.Paleolithic Nutrition: Your Future Is In Your Dietary Past is an article Jack Challem wrote for Nutrition Science News: April 1997.An Interview with Ward Nicholson now has three parts on the web. Good overview of man's diet over the past 65 million years. Long but highly recommended reading. First published in Chet Day's "Health & Beyond" newsletter. Now part of a very comprehensive Beyond Vegetarianism site. Every argument that your vegetarian friends use to avoid meat for health reasons is debunked here.Sweden's Staffan Lindeberg has a home page Paleolithic Diet in Medical Nutrition. Now in English. A recent study, reported in Science Magazine, has the Paleolithic diet improving glucose tolerance more than a Mediterranean-like diet in individuals with ischemic heart disease. Also see his first web page, an overview of his Kitava study: On the Benefits of Ancient Diets.Tamir Katz MD's Diet Information has a paleo orientation, though he doesn't call it that. He has a knack of clearly and directly explaning things. Excellent for friends and relatives of paleo eaters who are wondering why you eat weirdly.Neanderthin (Paleo) eating is Vad's page where he tries to sum up, super concentrated, what this whole thing is about. Includes menus, weight loss, and more.Regimen to promote neuroprotection and encourage nerve repair by Dr. Anthony G. Payne pushes the paleo diet. Especially see his links on turmeric.A diet high in phytic acid, which can be found in whole grains (it's in the bran) and beans like soy, is very detrimental for mineral absorption. Phytic acid strongly binds to minerals like calcium, iron, zinc and magnesium to form insoluble salts, phytates, which precipitate from the body. Staffan Lindeberg has written a summary on phytic acid.Two common foods clearly are Neolithic and avoiding them is key to a paleo diet. Here are link pages for avoiding them: Gluten-Free Page and No-Milk Page.Optimal Diet is a dietary model of human nutrition devised and implemented by Dr. Jan Kwasniewski. Lots of fat and low in carbs. Lots and lots of articles collected from various places.Meet Your Inner Mole Rat is a summary of Wrangham's hypothesis, which argues that humans became tuber eaters when we moved from the rain forest to the savanna.Lutein/Zeaxanthin and Macular Health is an article discussing antioxidents and protection against the oxidizing ultraviolet radiation of the sun. The best dietary sources of antioxidants in general, and carotenoids specifically, are fruits and vegetables and the more brightly colored, the better. Lutein and zeaxanthin are yellow pigments found in high concentrations in yellow fruits and vegetables as well as in dark green, leafy vegetables. In particular, spinach, kale and collard greens contain high levels of these two carotenoids.JoAnn Betten of the PaleoFood mailing list and I have collected many recipes at PaleoFood.com. All have no grains, no gluten, no dairy, no beans/legumes, no refined sugar, or other Neolithic foods.Ashton Embry has an essay Paleolithic Nutrition. He's a leading proponent for using dietary intervention to control MS.The Evolution of Human Nutrition by Barry Bogin is interesting reading which covers themes like homo erectus and up to date findings, and the relation to nutrition. [now in archive.org]Liz Pavek, a low carber, paleo person started her own website. See WHAT I THINK ABOUT ALL THIS:. Has her opinions on the state of nutrition and health.In William Calvin's The Ascent of Mind, Chapter 8 he discusses why he thinks that the Acheulian hand-ax (the oldest of the fancy stone tools of Homo erectus) was really a "killer frisbee." He argues that natural selection for throwing accuracy, which requires brain machinery, is the evolutionary scenario for bootstrapping higher intellectual functions. There are many more articles about evolution and human development throughout William's extensive site.Pemmican: Recipes, Stories and Stores is a link page with more on this than you've seen before.Lynne Olver at the Morris County Library has assembled The food timeline, which gives you the history of Neolithic foods. Includes paleo foods, like animal domestication and when some foods where first noted in the literature.Eating is an essay by Todd Moody.Dental Microwear Web Site is on the study of the microscopic scratches and pits that form on a tooth's surface as the result of its use. See the page on references. Some are evidences of past diet.Factors that Inhibit Calcium Absorption is an article pointing out the non-paleo things we do, mostly food related, that are negative for calcium absorption.The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. argues that too much animal fat being dangerous is a myth. This is a collection of essays, complete with the critical references.Dr. Joseph Mercola has an extensive web site on alternatives to traditional medicine. A hodge podge of different things. A small selection:Low Grain Guide To Health has a few links that are relevant to paleo eating. At bottom take link to his Sugar Index Page.Why Grassfed Animal Products Are Better For You.Low Grain and Carbohydrate Diets Treat Hypoglycemia, Heart Disease, Diabetes Cancer and Nearly ALL Chronic Illness.Caveman Cuisine by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD.Coconut: In Support of Good Health in the 21st Century by Mary Enig is an address she gave to a Cocotech meeting. Long and gets into coconut oil's competition. Many references at the end.The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications is an interview with Loren Cordain, PhD done by Robert Crayhon, MS.Ed's NewTreatments site has numerous diet related articles. One The three most damaging foods to our health: Wheat, Cowmilk and Soy is an introduction to a site by J. Dogtor.There is ample evidence that grain consumption is behind many cancers. Here is a quick analysis of the connection.Jack Challem has written Alpha-Lipoic acid: Quite Possibly the "Universal" Antioxidant and meat is the best source.paleofood.de is a site all in German, but PaleoFood.Info is their English version. Here is Loren Cordain's Food Pyramid.To Crack a Coconut tells how this is done in Thailand, without fancy tools, then gets into pressing milk, and some recipes.Cooking Clan of the Cave Bear Style! is a student experiment in boiling water in a skin pot over a fire (or not...)Aris Stathakis has a page How To Make Real South African Biltong - a traditional South African dried meat.Brett Saks, B.S., D.C. has a page The Adverse Effects of Wheat and Other Grains. Based on his clinical experiences.Chet Day sent a copy of the article by Robert Crayhon (Interview with Loren Cordain) to the Rea Centre in London, a place claiming to be proponents of a paleo diet. You can check out their counterpoint at Hunter Gatherer Paradigm Examined in New Light. It argues that our ancestors were not big meat eaters. Argues that since men are the scientists that hunting has been exaggerated out of proportion, and that gathering was the primary source of food. Chet Day also asked some questions and created The Rea Center Interview: Paleo Nutrition, Veganism, and More. Incredibly wordy with little content. [some now in archive.org]The Myths of Vegetarianism by Stephen Byrnes goes through many of the arguments that vegetarians use and explains why they are myths. A must read for all vegetarians.Blindness, Mad Cow Disease and Canola Oil by John Thomas points out the negatives of canola oil.The Venison Processing FAQ covers everything from choosing your target to recipes.The Paleolithic Diet is Bob Hodgen's story of his experiences on NeanderThin. Includes short explanation.Krispin Sullivan has written The Lectin Report. It explains the background on lectins and their connection to health problems. A good place to start to learn about these toxic proteins in Neolithic foods.Aquatic Ape Theory is a site covering all links on the subject. (The theory argues that humans evolved along the water's edge, but such evidence is now covered by the oceans.)Buried in the middle of The Revised Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen for Effecting Lysis in Solid Tumors one can find their diet recommendations for tumor control. It has a paleo diet orientation. Protein is 35%, preferably Omega 3 rich. Carbohydrates (also 35%) are only vegetables and fruit, no beans, bread, potatoes, or any grain. Then dietary and supplemental forms of fat should provide 20-30% of (daily) calories.WWW.PALEODIET.NU is a site in Swedish put up by Niclas Larsson. He has plans to grow the site.EATING BUGS! is a summary page by Aletheia Price. She used to have the comprehensive eatbug.com.Weird & Different Recipes is a page by Bert Christensen that includes several insect recipes and other foods that a Paleolithic dieter may have eaten.Zachary Huang has put up his Zack's Bug-Feasting Page. Mostly pictures of people eating giant silkworms and mealworms. Also see his other links.Vad är Paleodiet? is a site in Swedish put up by Hans Kylberg.[Ctrl-Home for Top, or Click Here]Educational InstitutionsThe Paleo Diet is Loren Cordain's site. It promotes his book and also includes, for free download, PDF files of all of his scientific articles on Paleo Diet.Did Cooked Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains? by Elizabeth Pennisi Discusses the Wrangham hypothesis, which argues that our ancestors have been cooking food for 1.9 million years, and that plant foods did play a key role, especially in the form of roots and tubers, and especially cooked.Diet and Heart Disease. It is not what you think is a online course by Stephen Byrnes covering the Lipid Hypothesis. [now in archive.org]Cooking up quite a story: Ape, human theory causes evolutionary indigestion is an article by William J. Cromie discussing the controversy over how long humans have been cooking.Origins and Evolution of Human Diet is an academic web site devoted to discussion of evolution and the human diet. Especially don't miss the articles on the conferences link! And in them especially see Botd Eaton's Evolution, Diet and Health which argues that current w-6 : w-3 imbalance together with absolute dietary DHA intake quite low in human evolutionary perspective may be relevant to the frequency of unipolar depression.Hunters and Gatherers Anthropology is a course taught by Raymond Hames at U. of Nebraska. Includes lecture notes on the book The Foraging Spectrum which outlines the important research issues, theory, and problems in hunter-gatherer research. His site has many other sub-pages that shouldn't be missed.How to Carve an Elephant is a chapter in Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth (1993). A cute writeup on some archaeologists that showed that a dead elephant can be carved up using the simple tools that were available 1.5 - 1.9 million years ago.Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition is a class at Indiana U. taught by Jeanne Sept, Professor of Anthropology.Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets. by Cordain et. al. is an abstract of an analysis showing that whenever and wherever it was ecologically possible, hunter-gatherers consumed high amounts (45-65% of energy) of animal food.The Changing Nature of Inuit Nutrition and Dietary Patterns by James H. Boschma III goes into detail on the dietary patterns of the Inuit. [now in archive.org]Cabrillo College's Anthropology Department has Monte Verde A Pre Clovis Site, which among other things, discusses the foods these early Native Americans ate. [now in archive.org]From the Neolithic Revolution to Gluten Intolerance: Benefits and Problems Associated with the Cultivation of Wheat, by Luigi Greco, Department of Pediatrics, U. of Naples. A history of gluten intolerance and why it is so common.Investigation of the Role of Wild Plant Foods in Pre-Agrarian Europe is a project currently being undertaken by Sarah Mason at the University College London.Plains Archaic people discusses the hunter-gatherers of the American plains. These PaleoIndians big-game hunters exploited a narrow-spectrum, focal resource base (one, maybe two animal species depending on location - e.g., reindeer in north; limited range of small game; few if any plants). Long and technical.Underwater storage techniques preserved meat for early hunters demonstrates how PaleoIndians living in the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age preserved meat from large animal kills by storing it underwater.Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory is an exhibition at the Museum of Antiquities on the world of the late stone age hunter gatherers in Britain. Only three pages are food related: The hunter gatherer way of life is heavy on the tools used in Britain. Tasks and activities around the home fire has some on food processing. Could you survive today as a hunter gatherer? has pictures of collectable foods and you select whether it is edible or not. In three parts: fungi, foliage, and nuts & berries. More than half of the options are poisonous.Health Issues and Trans Fat by Mary G. Enig discusses how it was claimed in 1958 that these were culprits in heart disease, but the edible oil industry quickly squelched this information.Do dietary lectins cause disease? is an editorial in the British Medical Journal which suggests that lectins, which are high in cereals, potatoes, and beans, may be behind some autoimmune diseases.You Are What You Eat: New Theories About Rheumatoid Arthritis is a newsreport about an article in the British Journal of Nutrition. The authors argue that their theory implicating diet needs more research.The Southern Greek Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Sequence at Franchthi is a cave where the deposits revealed what the occupants ate over the years.Stone Age Habitats hasn't much to do with food, but there is mention of cooking hearths, and a couple nice graphs. But for some reason the time lines are flipped.Fattening cattle with corn changes the lipid balance and is clearly not the natural diet for a grass eating cow. In Simple change in cattle diets could cut E. coli infection researchers have found that when cattle were fed hay or grass for just five days before slaughter, much less E. Coli cells were present in the animal's feces and virtually all surviving E. coli bacteria were not acid-resistant and were killed by human stomach acid.A Hunter-Gatherer Bibliography compiled by students of James W. Helmer Department of Archaeology, U. of Calgary. 112K.`First farmers' with no taste for grain is an article by Mike Richards on the use of meat in ancient British Isles diets. The suggestion is that the Brits were depending primarily on meat for their nutritition up to around 2000 B.C.`Man the Hunter' returns at Boxgrove. Mark Roberts, the Director of the Boxgrove Project, provides evidence that the hominids of the Lower Palaeolithic period did hunt their meat.In sorrow shalt thou eat all thy days Peter Rowley-Conwy, Archaeology at the University of Durham, argues that many hunter-gatherers never wanted to farm.No carefree life for Mesolithic people. Hunter-gatherers worked much harder for their living than has previously been thought, writes Rob Young.Neanderthal bone chemistry provides food for thought. Using bone-chemistry analyses, a team determined the Neandertals must have feasted on meat. Neanderthal diet at Vindija and Neanderthal predation: The evidence from stable isotopes is the full text of the article.Kristin D. Sobolik is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary Studies at U. of Maine. She has a home page listing her publications, many of which are on prehistoric diets.Blueberries May Restore Some Memory, Coordination and Balance Lost with Age is a study from Tufts U. which found that blueberries make rats feel young again.Human Skeletons and Society in Prehistoric Italy basically shows how various ills increased in the Neolithic age. The best parts are the graphs showing the disorders they found and how they increased as the food become more away from a Paleolithic diet. This is the link to infectious disease and childhood stress.An abstract: Reducing the serum cholesterol level with a diet high in animal fat. by Newbold HL.Hunter/gatherers often eat grubs. Entomologists at the Iowa State University have created some Tasty Insect Recipes, and insects can be bought via internet. Also see Nutritional Value of Various Insects per 100 grams.The Food Insects Newsletter site includes selected on-line articles from back issues. Probably more paleo than most people can handle.Bugfood! is by the U. of Kentucky Department of Entomology. Discusses insects as food and insect snacks from around the world.[Ctrl-Home for Top, or Click Here]Media ReportsA High Fat, Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Alzheimer's Disease In Mice reports on a study that showed that a brain protein, amyloid-beta, which is an indicator of Alzheimer's disease, is reduced in mice on the so-called ketogenic diet."Drink At Least 8 Glasses Of Water A Day" -- Really? points out that there is no scientific proof that we need to force ourselves to drink a lot of water, and that ist is just an urban myth.Processed Carbs = Breast Cancer? reports on a study finds that women who ate the most carbs had twice the risk of breast cancer compared to women who ate the least amount.Old Bones Hint At Fatal Neanderthal Flaw has quote: Vegetables and fruits played little role in the diets of Neanderthals and early modern humans, he said. "They were eating some (vegetables and fruits), but it was not enough to show up in their bone chemistry," Richards said.Against the grain is mainly a review of the Dangerous Grains book, with digressions into other evidence that anti-gliadin antibodies cause numerous non-intestinal problems.Enduring Questions - Should You Be Eating Like The Cavemen? is an introduction by Amby Burfoot in Runner's World.Better Beef is an introductory article on the health benefits of grass-fed beef.The Diet Wars has an introduction to the caveman diet as one of the four competing diets covered.The Soft Science of Dietary Fat is a summary of an article in Science Magazine reporting that mainstream nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. In fact, there are good reasons to believe high-carbohydrate diets may be even worse than high-fat diets. Here is the original article by Gary Taubes.The blowout diet: fast all day, feast at night reports on a study that finds an intermittent feeding schedule produces similar benefits as a semi-starvation diet.New road reveals Stone Age site which may provide evidence of fire in the British Isles back between 250,000 and 300,000 years ago.High-cholesterol diet 'doesn't increase stroke risk' reports on a study of 43,000 middle-aged men. While it finds no correlation with stokes and fatty foods, they did not look for a correlation with anything else. [now in archive.org]Meat eating is an old human habit reports on an analysis of our ancestor's teeth that shows we became meat eaters 2.5 million years ago.Neanderthals' strong-arm tactics revealed discusses whether they threw spears or just used them to stab animals.Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent many years as an Eskimo among Eskimos. After a year experiment eating only meat at Bellevue Hospital, he wrote about his experiment and his years as an Eskimo in Adventures in Diet, a three part series Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1935 - January 1936.Food for Thought, Dietary change was a driving force in human evolution is an article in Scientific American that discusses our evolution in the context of diet.In prehistoric cave, scientists use computers as their guide lists off the diet of some middle Paleolithic era cave dwellers in Northern Israel.Animal Protein Consumption Associated With Bone Density in Elderly Women. This isn't really new. Herta Spencer back in the 80's showed that meat helped if an adequate amount of calcium was consumed. Studies showing that protein was bad used isolated, fractionated animo acids from milk or eggs. [now in archive.org]In Bread blamed for short sight Jennie Brand Miller links the dramatic increase in myopia in developed countries on childhood over-consumption of bread.Meat Eating More Healthy in Prehistoric Times discusses the healthier fats in wild meat. Loren Cordain's team compared the muscle, brain, bone marrow and fat of wild animals with those of cattle.Neanderthals Were As Smart As Us reports on new research that reveals that Neanderthals were not dumb, but had the technical and intellectual skills to put them on an equal basis with modern humans.Cave men diets offer insights to today's health problems, study shows. But, you have to eat wild meat, which has a healthier ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids.High 'Good' Cholesterol Level Lowers Stroke Risk is a news report highlighting that high HDL is the only indicator of lower stroke risk. However, it fails to mention that a low-carb diet is the only diet that increases HDL.Fishy clue to rise of humans reports that by studying the chemicals that remained in the bones of the earliest modern humans, scientists discovered that their diet, included fish and fowl as well as large mammals. The Neanderthals, on the other hand, only ate large mammals, which became extinct.Agriculture Is Bad for You is a Time Europe article pointing out that some dieticians recommend we change our eating habits to resemble those of our ancestors. A pro-Paleo article!Coconut oil promises to be anti-viral agent reports on trials that have confirmed that coconut oil has an anti-viral effect that reduces the viral level in HIV-AIDS patients to undetectable levels.Homocysteine A Possible Risk Factor For Alzheimer's discusses an association between Alzheimer's disease and moderately-elevated blood levels of the amino acid, homocysteine. Homocysteine levels can be reduced by consumption of foods with folic acid and vitamin B12, i.e. greens and meat.Diabetics Improve Health With Very High-Fat, Low Carb Diet discusses a successful study.Scientific American has Early Humans Had Woodworking Technology reports on finding evidence that humans produced wood tools, possibly spears, 1.5 million years ago. This is a million years earlier than previously believed. And Early Humans Ate Termites reports that ancient hominids had a taste for termites.Harvard Magazine on Paleolithic Fast Food. By excavating a cave they found that animals that move slower were eaten in the past and in later years ones that move faster were eaten. [link problems 22-Jul-06]The discovery of fire speculates that man controlled fire 1.6 million years ago. Circumstantial evidence also suggests that they were cooking their food. (This is a version of the article in New Scientist by John McCrone, May 2000.) [now in archive.org]Insulin-Like Compound Predicts Stroke Risk states that insulin resistance (which is usually caused by excessive carb intake, meaning that caused by normal intake of grains and sugar) is a predictor (i.e. indicates increase risk) of strokes.Go back to stone-age diet, says health professor is an interview with Loren Cordain.New Human Ancestor? Two and a half million years ago a humanlike creature in what is now Ethiopia raised a stone and smashed it down on an antelope bone to get at the marrow and fat inside. This is the earliest known evidence of a stone tool used to butcher an animal.New Species Of Human Ancestor. A more detailed version than the ABC News one. They also ate catfish and horse. Note the bit about "high fat meat"!Fossil find may be 'missing link'. A third page on 2.5 million year old fossil find in Ethiopia.Olive oil 'reduces cancer risk' claims that using olive oil in cooking may prevent the development of bowel cancer.A taste for meat argues that our ancestors three million years ago ate a lot of small mammals that could be caught without tools.The Caveman Diet is the CBS story on 48 hours where they featured Ray Audette and the paleo diet. Focuses on weight loss.Modern Stone Age food is an article based on an interview with Boyd Eaton that appeared in the USA Weekend insert magazine.In What the Hominid Ate by analyzing carbon atoms in tooth enamel researchers challenge the widely held belief that these 3 million year ago homnoids ate little more than fruits and leaves. [now in archive.org]The Electronic Telegraph had a 12-Aug-97 article "Barbecues are a thing of the past". Some archaeologists from Liverpool University working in the Suffolk forest found what they believe may be a hearth that is 400,000 years old. [Free registration required]Revealing Anciet Family Ties is a chart of our human lineage. It is included as it has arrows at the 2.5 million year mark showing when stone tools and meat eating were introduced. See also: article introduction and main text. [now in archive.org]Eating Like a Caveman is a page written by Kathleen Doheny. She gives an overview of the paleo diet, then tells of her experience of trying it for a day. Includes this quote by Loren Cordain "If it's a fad, it's the oldest fad going."[Ctrl-Home for Top, or Click Here]Associations/OrganizationsProtein consumption is an important predictor of lower limb bone mass in elderly women concludes that protein intakes for elderly women above current recommendations may be necessary to optimize bone mass.The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics has a Discussion about the cavemen’s diet. Has comments from many researchers, some familiar from elsewhere on this page. No comments from Lorain Cordain, but much discussion and disagreement with him.The Weston A. Price Foundation was set up by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig. Like the Price-Pottenger Nutritional Foundation, with which they were previously affiated, it is not completely paleo in its recommendations. But lots of good articles nonetheless. See The Oiling of America. Also see Guts and Greast: The Diet of Native Americans. And what they think of Loreen Cordain's The Paleo Diet. And many other articles.A small subset of the people eating only raw foods are eating animal foods (RAF). And some of them have put up a resource page for Raw Paleolithic Diets.Food is part of the Vegan Straight-Edge site. The page is almost a resource page for paleodiet, with the sole exception of the comments about meat and protein requirements. It's quite interesting. Other pages at the site include: [all now in archive.org]The origins of agriculture - a biological perspective and a new hypothesis in which Greg Wadley & Angus Martin argue that the shift to cultivation and animal domestication was due to the "comfort" derived from the opioid peptides from gluten.John Coleman's Opioids In Common Food Products-Addictive Peptides In Meat, Dairy and Grains. (There isn't any evidence presented that this is an issue with meat, but it is a vegan site!)Paleolithic diet is a definition found in the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.Nutrition Australia has a Q&A page on: I have read somewhere recently about a 'Paleolithic diet'. What exactly is the 'Paleolithic diet'? Written as an introduction.A hunting rights group has put up Eating Meat is Natural, written by Jim Powlesland. It appears to be a summary from "The Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet & Exercise and a Design for Living".Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors is a study of jaw size and shape, tooth size, shape, and wear patterns, which give clues as to what the earliest human ancestors ate two to four million years ago.Fatty Fish Cuts Risk Of Death From Heart Attack In Elderly is another study showing the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids consumption.Concerns Regarding Soybeans by Mary Enig and Sally Fallon discusses the negatives with soy consumption. Abstracted from Health Freedom News, September 1995.Soy Online Service is a New Zealand site dedicated to "uncovering the truth about soy".Tragedy and Hype is a very comprehensive article on soy that appeared in Nexus Magazine. Shows how the soy industry manipulated things to turn their toxic food into a health food. Nexus Magazine also has The Hidden Dangers of Soy Allergens.Should we be Scared of Soy? covers the various health negatives of soy consumption.Ray Peat's Newsletter has a web site with some sample articles. There are two articles of interest to Paleodieters: "The Benefits of Coconut Oil" and "Toxicity of Unsaturated Oils". When you click on them then select open.Review and Atlas of Paleovegetation. Preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the Last Glacial Maximum (18,000 14C years ago).American Scientist had an article on Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution by Craig B. Stanford in the May-June 1995 issue. It discusses British primatologist Jane Goodall's observations.Paleolithic Diet: How our bodies want to be treated. is a page from The Healing Crow, an organization dedicated to bringing the aspects of mind, body, and spirit into our health.Beyond Toddlerhood: The Breastfeeding Relationship Continues by Priscilla Young Colletto provides evidence of lengthy breastfeeding prior to modern times.The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation promotes some Paleolithic nutrition concepts, though they recommend dairy, a non-paleo food. Many good articles worth reading there.Why I Am Not a Vegetarian by Dr. William T. Jarvis makes comments about the "ideological" commitment to a diet that are at least as interesting as the comments about diet itself.Trans Fat Spells Double Trouble for Arteries points out that the popular trans fat is unhealthy and not disclosed on food labels.[Ctrl-Home for Top, or Click Here]Foraging and Ethnobotany [Home]© 1997-2008 Don Wiss. All rights reserved. |
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