Try these:

from the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v63/n8/abs/ejcn20094a.html

from the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine: http://www.thepaleodiet.com/articles/J%20Nutr%20Environ%20Med%202003.pdf

-good starting point, anyway....

A good one on grains by Cordain:

http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/EvolutionPaleolithic/Cereal%20Sword.pdf

I've listed below the best articles that I've come across so far. I recommend printing one of them, and showing it to your doctor. One's an ideal number because it requires little commitment on his part, but will [start to] open his mind.

• Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease

• Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet.

• Beneficial effects of a Paleolithic diet on cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes: a randomized cross-over pilot study.

• Saturated fat, carbohydrate, and cardiovascular disease.

By the way, I keep them, and a couple of others, bookmarked on Delicious.

Hi Guys, thanks! I have forwarded to him all the 'hard' science stuff, however I am finding much like a jigsaw puzzle, to fully appreciate paleo as a whole you need to build the argument bit by bit, de-constructing the conventional wisdom fails one step at a time... As such can anyone recommend any more really good paleo articles.

I think I have the doc agreed to read 1 article a week I send him :)

CMM - I replied to you on PaNu's forum but here's a partial repost. If someone has the time, interest and/or desire for "academic cred", here's my "tripod" I currently use as my foundation to build on/lens to view everything through:

• "The expensive-tissue hypothesis: The brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution", Aiello and Wheeler, 1995. Summary: Eating meat made us human (bigger brains, smaller guts).

http://people.biology.ufl.edu/sphelps/documents/evobrain/aeillo_wheeler_95.pdf

• "Paleopathology at the origins of agriculture", Mark Nathan Cohen etc, Academic Press, 1984. Summary: Human health declined markedly with the introduction of cereal grains into our diet, as demonstrated by skeletal and dental records.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology-at-origins-of.html

• "Clinical calorimetry XLVI: Prolonged meat diets with a study of the metabolism of nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus", Mclellan, Rupp and Toscani, Bellevue Hospital, NY, 1930. Summary: Two men ate an all-meat diet for one year with no scurvy or other health problems, proving in practice what biochemistry is already quite clear on: There are no "essential carbohydrates".

http://www.jbc.org/content/87/3/669.full.pdf

And of course, this excellent summary of GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES which covers the last 150 years of obesity research, and the bad science and politics that led to government recommendations for a low-fat diet, reversing what was previously "conventional wisdom":

http://higher-thought.net/wp-content/uploads/Notes-to-Good-Calories-Bad-Calories.pdf