made me laugh. On Nov 23, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Look, the diet itself is sound; it’s the philosophy that’s bullshit. Eat > what you want. Just leave the damn cavemen out of it.” > > > On 11/23/2013 04:04 PM, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> Sigh. Then it's a bunch of scientists making fools of themselves, much the >> same as Marlene Zuk did earlier this year. >> http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-it-all-just-a-paleofantasy/#axzz2lVLlYgZq, >> setting up strawmen and knocking them down. >> >> I'd recommend for anyone interest in what the topic in general read "The >> Story of the Human Body" by Daniel E. Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Saturday, November 23, 2013 1:21:33 PM UTC-7, Eric Norris wrote: >> More about the Paleo Diet: >> >> http://mumanu.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/archaeologists-officially-declare-collective-sigh-over-paleo-diet/ >> >> From the article: >> “Nearly every food item you currently eat today has been modified from its >> ancestral form, typically in a drastic way, ” he began. “The notion that we >> have not yet adapted to eat wheat, yet we have had sufficient time to adapt >> to kale or lentils is ridiculous. In fact, for most practitioners of the >> Paleo Diet, who are typically westerners, the majority of the food they >> consume has been available to their gene pool for less than five centuries. >> Tomatoes, peppers, squash, potatoes, avocados, pecans, cashews, and >> blueberries are all New World crops, and have only been on the dinner table >> of African and Eurasian populations for probably 10 generations of their >> evolutionary history. Europeans have been eating grain for the last 10,000 >> years; we’ve been eating sweet potatoes for less than 500. Yet the human >> body has seemingly adapted perfectly well to yams, let alone pineapple and >> sunflower seeds.” >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
