Posted: May 16, 2010 12:55 am
wunksta wrote:Elena wrote:
There is no contradiction here. There is substantial research supporting the superiority of a Paleo-like diet for overall health.
what i mean is that most of what is advocated in these diets are already being advocated. if people eliminated smoking, excessive drinking, fatty foods and large quantities of sugar, as well as exercised then they would see largely the same improvements that are considered to be apart of the paleodiet.
What the "Paleo diet" name does is it provides a unifying theory regarding each of the elements of the diet. Many people still think that nutrition is a matter of counting calories, and that diseases are only related to genetics, and maybe, to some junk food. The rationale for a healthy diet, however, is that we have evolved to eat certain foods and not others.