Blog

Tagged Questions

3
votes
14answers
352 views

Do you find people meet your lifestyle choices with criticism/hostility?

I personally get a lot... "You don't eat bread? what's wrong with you?" "sounds boring you seem to eat the same foods over and over" (people don't seem to realise that they do too, …
110
votes
39answers
17k views

What are the smartest anti-paleo arguments? And our responses to them?

Intellectual honesty demands that we understand and respond to the smartest & best arguments our critics make. What are the best anti-paleo arguments? And what are our respon …
15
votes
24answers
4k views

Buff vs. “feminine”?

This is a very non-scientific question, out of pure curiosity. The last 3 years I’ve been kickboxing passionately, I started lifting weights and then, one year ago, I started cros …
1
vote
5answers
314 views

Help me grok this comment about diet, natural selection, and disease

NPR has a blog article in which they highlighted comments about a previous post of theirs on the paleo diet. One of the highlighted comments was this: Robert McNealy (wooddragon …
1
vote
2answers
100 views

What are some good Paleo Videos?

Can someone recommend a good paleo video on Youtube or similar?
24
votes
15answers
2k views

What do you think are the “dubious” parts of the Paleo movement?

Those of you follow PaNu/Dr Kurt Harris probably have read that he will be cross posting at Psychology Today Online. As a big fan of Dr Harris, I am very happy for him and the mass …
9
votes
27answers
6k views

Crossfit Haters on Facebook

As a supplement to a paleo lifestyle, I also engage in Crossfit and I am sure that many of you do as well. A friend of mine has recently joined Crossfit and taken up a paleo lifest …
2
votes
8answers
490 views

Unsolicited “Observations” and How to evaluate if you are too thin?

File this under "good problems to have" for most.... I have been eating primally for well over six months now. I am 5'2" and 110 lbs (and holding steady). I feel great, I eat grea …
8
votes
10answers
438 views

Do you consult any non-paleo sources of information?

Do you consult any non-paleo sources of information? Sometimes my friends criticize me for getting all of my information from one source - the paleo blogosphere - which biases the …