most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-20T22:12:52Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/user/5932 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/48766/help-me-convince-my-sister-paleo-is-not-a-scam-fad-diet/48774#48774 Jeff 2011-06-30T23:15:03Z 2011-06-30T23:15:03Z

<p>As someone else pointed out, she is 14, even if a argument is valid it might not work. With that said, if there is a chance anthropology is probably the answer.</p> <p>Tell her that up until 20,000 years ago, humans didn't ingest non-paleolithic foods. If they weren't available prior to that time, then we didn't evolve to properly digest them. This is simply because of natural selection, if you weren't born with the proper makeup to be healthy when eating the foods that were available to you, you perished.</p> <p>Weston Price is probably the best person to cite if she wants a real life example of this as well. Being that he was a dentist in the 1930's and studied several of the healthiest cultures in the world that only at their own cultural foods. Their is even a nonprofit (keyword here for your argument) foundation online called westonprice.org dedicated to spreading the vital knowledge he uncovered so many decades ago.</p> <p>And Gary Taubes talks about the falsified research by Ansel Keys (or something like that) that led to the incorrect nutritional knowledge that now prevails as our conventional wisdom. Read into this a little bit if you want some real fuel for you fire.</p> <p>Good luck putting that little squirt in her place! :D</p>