The paleo diet bites the dust as new evidence is unearthed

[Binkie The Clown]

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[font size=8]Paleo enthusiasts, you've got it all wrong[/font]
11:29 AM Wednesday Sep 16, 2015


Ancient people likely ate more grains than researchers previously thought. Photo / iStock

The orthodoxy of the Paleo diet has been challenged by the most unlikely of contenders: the humble oat.

Paleo dieters shun most grains and carbohydrates on the premise that our Palaeolithic ancestors did not eat them and were healthier for it, but a new archealogical discovery suggests oatmeal was actually part of ancient diets.

Analysis of a stone pestle by an Italian research team found it was dusted with the starch of wild oat plants, Men's Fitness reported.

More at the link, and another feather in the cap of Dr. McDougall's Starch-Based Diet

[SheilaT]

1. Plus, depending on what part of the world

and at what time in pre-history you might want to be referencing, there wasn't just one Paleo diet.

The book Paleofantasy by Marlene Zuk is an excellent assessment of the Paleo nonsense.

[yeoman6987]

2. Of course

I wish everyone would just eat what they want but in moderation. Every fad makes the population fatter and fatter. Do not go without. Eat it all but eat in moderation and you will be fine. Americans spend more on crappy diets them every country and they fail. Eat moderately and get off the couch 3 times a week and you will be heathy and at least moderate weight. Not rocket science. Although these crazy programs are making the inventors filthy rich. Good job America!

[daleanime]

9. True with one addition.....

eat less meat. If you're unwilling to give it up entirely, eat smaller portions and try to have more meatless meals. Better for yourself and the planet.

[yeoman6987]

11. Good point and thanks for the additional info.

[Scootaloo]

3. Paleolithic people ate whatever was edible

That's the basic gist of living off the land

[d_r]

5. yep

they ate what the could get. And the reason that sweet stuff and carbs taste so good to us now is that they were like a gold mine for our ancestors (who were the ones that lived long enough to have children that lived long enough etc.)

[gladium et scutum]

8. To the Paleolithic people

anything short of granite was considered food.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Oh no! Guess I'd better sell all my high-flying "gluten free" stock!

Our complete gullibility for the latest fad both amazes and amuses me.

But, as that renowned nutritionist Norman Bates once put it, "We all go a little mad sometimes."

[Skittles]

7. I hear you

I wish people would stop with the stupid diet fads and just eat everything they want, just not as MUCH as they want, and EXERCISE

[RufusTFirefly]

10. I'm fascinated by the widespread susceptibility to fads

Almost no one takes kindly to being told that they've fallen for a fad or fashion.
It's like telling someone who insists on something that "really happened" to a friend of a friend that their "true story" is actually a tired old urban legend.
It tends to elicit an angry, insistent, and decidedly defensive response.

[Skittles]

12. they spend so so much time being proud of what they will or will not eat

can you imagine living your life while eliminating any kind of food you really love? That probably would make you "defensive responsive"

[lunasun]

6. mares eat oats and does eat oats but little lambs eat ivy

a kid will eat ivy too
Cooked oats do not sit well with my tummy
the starch-based diet also comes with a number of things we are advised not to consume. These include but are not limited to: meat, fish, dairy, eggs, animal fats, vegetable oil, olive oil and processed foods