That's an interesting read, thanks for posting the link.
I started following a low-carb diet in 2009 and was able to lose weight and feel better, and so I started reading more and searching for more information. I think what helped most is that I was avoiding some foods that, although I really enjoyed them, did a number on my GI tract (granola and oatmeal in particular, sigh). The thing is, as I read through various blogs and sites, what constituted "paleo" depending on whatever flavor of snake oil the blog writer was peddling. There was even one that went from promoting paleo based on how our ancestors ate meat and few greens, to disavowing paleo because our ancestors ate more greens and less meat. I never did understand how the eating habits of nomadic hunter/foragers who died young could help me feel better and live longer today.
I started following a low-carb diet in 2009 and was able to lose weight and feel better, and so I started reading more and searching for more information. I think what helped most is that I was avoiding some foods that, although I really enjoyed them, did a number on my GI tract (granola and oatmeal in particular, sigh). The thing is, as I read through various blogs and sites, what constituted "paleo" depending on whatever flavor of snake oil the blog writer was peddling. There was even one that went from promoting paleo based on how our ancestors ate meat and few greens, to disavowing paleo because our ancestors ate more greens and less meat. I never did understand how the eating habits of nomadic hunter/foragers who died young could help me feel better and live longer today.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
