Paleolithic Diet (was: A Couple of Newbie Questions)

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But more and more modern research is evolving the picture of a

healthy diet that is remarkably similar, if not virtually identical,

to a Mediterrenean Paleolithic diet. Walford's diet is essentially a

Mediterrenean Paleolithic diet if you make the appropriate changes to

eat only grass-fed meats, low-insulinic carbs and avoid refined oils.

That begs the question: if our Paleolithic ancestors ate so

fantastically healthy compared to modern diets, why didn't they live

longer than 30-40 years of age? It's very unlikely they were eating

a lot of excess calories in a warm, temperate climate, or eating past

the point of satiety. So surely at least just one [skeleton] managed

to defy the negative odds of widespread infections and infant

mortality, the two reasons for our dramatic increase in the average

lifespan last century.

Logan

> I always thought that our ideas about Omega 3's came from recent

scientific

> info, not from what we surmise about our ancestors . What our

ancestors ate

> isn't a scientific way to go about planning a modern diet and

doesn't always

> jibe with the healthiest way to eat from what we now know.