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Was dairy a part of our ancestral paleolithic diet?

The question is simple. Mammals have mammary glands, mammary glands produce milk. Early humans ate animals so they must have consumed the mammary glands. From my rudimentary unders …
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Why the heck are you all afraid of fruit?

One of the biggest arguments for the paleo diet is that humans are genetically the same for about 2 million years and lived off that same diet. Evolution takes a very very long ti …
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Worst Food Invention Ever?

What would you say is the worst food-related invention in History? In terms of the tragically unhealthy SAD lifestyles so many have grown used to.
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Why does “Paleo” seem to be absent from the history books?

Something that has been baffling me, are there instances of religion, literature, or just general historical records of where people have warned against the effects of grains/wheat …
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Why cant Humans Evolve to eat Grains?

Some people do just fine with grains and their genes are more evolved to them. Just like some people's ancestors consumed a lot of dairy and can thrive on it. Also evolution …
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Obesity in photography

Hi, I remember a while ago seeing a blog post somehere, where there were many pictures highlighting the scope of obesity from a century ago etc. If anyone could link to applicable …
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Paleo isn’t low carb anymore… but it kind of was.

I'm not a paleo long timer by any means. But I've been around for a little while and kept a close ear to the ground for my entire stint in the paleo realm. A common complaint among …
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Has anyone read any John Yudkin?

While visiting family over Thanksgiving, I pulled down and started thumbing through a paperback book from 1974 entitled "Nourishing your Unborn Child" by Phyllis Williams, RN. The …
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history/background

How did you get to this point? It seems that folks on this site have come from several backgrounds. I see: low carb weight loss; a search for solution to health issues; and physica …
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Why did Humans Start Eating Grains?

For many of us who go on a Paleo diet, binging on grains leaves us feeling horrible the next day. I wonder, then, why did early humans adopt this food in the first place? I unders …
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How would you refute: If grains are making us fat why weren’t people fatter in 1914?

Just happened across this article from The Atlantic yeterday: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/are-grains-making-us-fat/237030/ The article deduces that grain …
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Have you read the works of Jared Diamond???

Not really on the paleo side, but anyone read any of his stuff. Seems like it applies on some level to the paleo thang, going to order some books on amazon and wondering if anyone …
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The SAD and myopia

I stumbled upon some really interesting thoughts about the rise of myopia a few months ago. The blogs I read stated that poor vision was never a part of human history, and that pe …
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Should we base our diet off of where in the world our ancestors lived 20,000 years ago?

Is it possible that there may be another side of Paleo which we have not really gotten the chance to dig into yet. For example should someone originally from Eastern European des …
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Evolutionary History: Why does sugar taste good?

One very basic thing I don't seem to understand about Paleo: Why do things obviously bad for us taste good, while things obviously good taste less good (or at least less addictive …

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