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Modern fruits/vegetables

Basically, I'm new to this diet. A close friend of mine recommended it because he felt like had good results from trying it out and I trust his opinion. However, another friend of …
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APOE4-4 and Lifestyle Pace and Complexity

EDIT: Just found an article that seems to substantiate my hunch, below: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2002507/ My original posting: There is probably no correlati …
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How has humanity thrived since the advent of agriculture

I was asked this question at a cookout last weekend, and I think I answered it with a few good points, but would like to hear how everyone else would respond? In 2 million years + …
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What will be the next breakthrough discovery?

Leptin, arguably the most important hormone in our bodies, wasn't discovered until 1994. Uncoupling proteins(2-5) weren't discovered until the late 90s and their functions were bei …
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Do We Adapt Our Lives to Fit Our Diet? Or Does Our Diet Help Us Adapt to Our Lives?

I read a lot of exchanges on Paleo Hacks that go like: "What ratios do you eat? How many grams of such and such do you need to stay in Ketosis?" etc. I wonder if all of these stric …
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Modern Fruit vs Ancestral Fruit.

Looking for evidence/resources to the makeup, sugar, starch, fructose, glucose of Fruit over time. Specifically the generic fruit we eat today, what the ancestral versions were li …
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What exactly defines the paleo lifestyle?

It seems like a bit of a moving target. Anybody who does anything that nobody did 40,000 years ago simply proclaims that this isn't supposed to be a re-enactment and then moves on. …