Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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if so what should it be?

Seems like a good chance to gather data (perhaps yearly) on a few hundred or more people who generally stick to this 'fad' (I'm kidding) diet. Even though macronutrient ratios are argued about, most people generally steer clear of gluten, legumes, milk, and refined sugars.

Perhaps a basic height/weight might be a good place to start but maybe include lipid panel numbers or something?

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asked Sep 8 2011 at 3:26

Jeff
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LaLonde would burn the place down if they did. – No more. Sep 8 2011 at 5:12

"people who generally stick to this fad diet" ... fad diet? Interesting word choice. – Beth-WeightMaven Sep 8 2011 at 13:38

I was being funny about the fad diet. – Jeff Sep 8 2011 at 15:00

Travis Culp · Answer 1 · 2011-09-08 03:30:43Z UTC

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I really think there should be a lipid panel database where you'd enter values for various tests and it would have checkboxes that would elucidate which particular ancestral diet permutation you're following. Someone could then run some statistical analysis on it and see what sort of correlations exist. It wouldn't be "scientific" but it would likely yield a good deal of data.

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Travis Culp♦
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that'd be really cool! Do ya think people would put in random numbers though? – Jeff Sep 8 2011 at 3:33

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There'd probably be some kind of way to control for garbage outlier data. I think we're all OCD enough that 99% of it would be accurate. – Travis Culp♦ Sep 8 2011 at 3:34

Maybe scan in the lab results so there's no cheatin'. – Danielle Sep 8 2011 at 6:48

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