Absolutely. Although the benefits would have to be more than not gaining weight or not having food allergies, it would have to be a situation where my health thrived on modern and processed food.

No, I don't think I would go back to a neolithic diet. I enjoy the paleo food I eat now too much. Artificial flavours and over sweetness don't taste right any more.

I agree with Happy Now. If there are no negatives for health of retreating in the hypothetical then I can't see where there'd be a problem, if for whatever reason I wanted to (novelty perhaps). The want for any foods though is probably inextricably connected to its effects - remove the 'pentalising' effects of a food and there isn't going to really be a compelling disincentive to eating it.

Naturally people in general would continute using food etc as self expression so for some there wouldn't be a change but I wouldn't be adverse to eating bread etc...

I would eat everything. I love variety and trying every kind of food on the planet just to see how it tastes. There isn't really anything I don't like.

If it were just as healthy, I would eat cookies, cake, and candy bars all day. I have a horrible sweet tooth an that would definitely be my entire diet!

I'd start with some pasta and garlic bread. After that I would eat some cake.

Would I ever go back to eating packaged, processed foods with artificial ingredients? No.

Would I stop eating meals that consist only of delicious fatty cuts of meats and green vegetables? No.

Would I stop buying as many locally sourced and ethically produced foods as I can access and afford? No.

Would I enjoy including delicious fresh-baked bread, pastries, ice cream, pizza, in my diet? Yessssssss.

Hmm..

A bowl of al dente spaghetti aglio olio, drenched with olive oil and shrouded with freshly grated parmesan accompanied with a crusty chunk of bread. After, a generous serving of tiramisu and a double ristretto with hot milk on the side.

As a young man I used to eat up to 3 serves of pasta a day and had a six pack. These days I just need to smell a pasta and I feel the roll thickening..

Where do you buy those stem cells?

Theres alot more to SAD than wheat and carbs.

I think this about my answer:

I dont miss bread, its the toppings that are the good part.

Certainly not soy, vege oils or chemicals.

I dont stay up at night thinking about bland bird food like huge plates of rice or oats.

I might miss unending sweetness a little still (was something of a sweet tooth), but there again, thats an addiction, thus its a path to unending binging and dissatifaction, like drugs. Not a path to real lasting enjoyment.

I am better off either without it, or keeping it at a minimum.

So actually, my answer is no.

Id take the hypothetical miracle powers, just because a few miracle powers are always handy to have around, but I would at least not generally use them and stay paleo.

i'd eat whatever i wanted if i didn't have UC and needed to control my disease with diet. i've been limited for so long in my food options and it would be awesome if i didn't have to care.

If I could eat anything without getting sick or fat, I would choose a diet of pasta, bread, pizza, fried food, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate ice cream, more ice cream, mangoes & mango salsa with chips and a lot of mozarella, parmesan and asiago cheese.

No, I would not. Kind of like in your example, I've always been on the slender side, but even though I could eat junk food and not gain weight, I didn't even before I started following a Paleo diet because I knew that it wasn't healthy. I do have major health issues that I control by following a Paleo diet, but even if I didn't, I would not go back to eating a neolithic diet. For me, it's about achieving optimal health.

Yeah, I think I still would, but not as strictly. I would definitely eat more sugar, at least, but I get a fair amount of OCDish pleasure from eating in a way that I know is good for me, and did pre-Paleo as well. I imagine many people on this board are the same.

I would SO go back to neolithic food if there were no health or metabolic consequences. To me, it's much more delicious and satisfying to eat. Then again, maybe once I've eaten paleo long enough, it will taste more delicious and SAD food will taste disgusting. But even THEN, I still might stick to the neolithic foods, because you know, they're cheaper and more readily available and it would just be soooooooooooooo much easier.

I'm going to take a more macro approach to this. Though I will admit to going Paleo for the health benefits, my introduction to Paleo was through sociological aspects. I believe the deleterious effects of the Neolithic diet are much more than the health of one person. I'd stay Paleo just to contribute to the downfall of the processed food industry. (Not that I'm an activist, I just think the ease of acquisition for 'edible food-like substances*' is a problem worth tackling. *with acknowledgement to Mr. Pollan.)