A beginner’s guide to Paleolithic nutrition

[elmagicochrisg]

Sure we adapt. That's why we are not all O positive people anymore. Before we started consuming milk and grains all people were O positive. Fact that now some people have A, B or AB blood types is proof of our evolution and adaptation. I would have to look it up, but one group has adapted to milk, the other to grains. That's why we should also partially adjust our diet to our blood type. There is no such thing as a universal diet...

I'm O positive, so I'm made for the caveman diet...

Still, the fact that some people adapted doesn't mean milk and grains are good for you. They are no good any way you look at it. I would have to look up why they are bad for you again, but I just don't have the time for the moment...

[saturnfan]

The other thing I want to point out, is that even I am advocating the diet hardcore, I share a lot of the skepticism expressed in this thread. But I have always been interested in evolutionary type subjects, so I find the theory and concept very fascinating. So I will continue to look into it and read about it.

[mjmjr25]

If you ask any professional athlete how they got to be as healthy as they were, they aren't likely to attribute it to any sort of fad diet such as paleolithic eating. They made it to where they were because of simply eating according to their personal needs and lots of exercise.

I have no doubt that eating in this method is probably healthy - but ANY sort of nutritional diet (paleolithic/caveman or otherwise) will give you results WITH exercise.

There is no miracle diet to losing weight, it takes dedication, nutrition and work.

This.

^That.

When I used to drink a lot of beer and not play basketball, regardless of what I ate - I got chubby.

I've cut out the beer 5 years ago and I do something physical a few times a week. I eat fast foot, steaks, burgers, nacho cheese, cereals loaded w/extra sugar, 3-4 sodas a day.

If there were a "perfect diet" out there, we wouldn't have a new "perfect diet" every few weeks.

There is a perfect diet, its called stop eating when your full and move your body.

I'm going to eat a 1/2 pound burger on sesame seed bun, covered in nacho cheese right now (seriously) and my guess is, this a 2 soda meal.

Somehow I think i'm going to wake up with the same energy, same weight, and same body as I have everyday for the last 5 years.

[MrPopo]

Sure we adapt. That's why we are not all O positive people anymore.

Citation needed.

[elmagicochrisg]

Sure we adapt. That's why we are not all O positive people anymore.

Citation needed.

You got me this time...

Seems like this blood type diet is the theory of one Dr. Peter D'Adamo and Dr. Peter D'Adamo alone...

I've read a lot of contradictory theories the past 2 hours. Dr. Peter D'Adamo says blood type O was the first, other studies say A was the first, and yet another study showed both A, B and O date from millions of years ago...

Because group O blood can be received by anyone in a blood transfusion, it was originally thought that this was the ancestral blood type, but more recent work suggests that there are several different mutations that can deactivate the A or B genes to turn them into O. This makes a firm timeline much harder to establish and there are several competing theories that contradict each other. What they agree on is that AB is the most recent and didn’t occur until the 16th century when group A populations from Europe and group B populations from Asia began to mix. The other blood groups are tens of thousands of years old with B being more recent than A. The oldest group is either group A or one of the forms of group O.

Oh well, it all sounded very reasonable the first time I read about it. But there seems to be no scientific backup whatsoever for this theory. On the contrary, it seems that D'Adamo's theory is complete bogus. So I guess it's better to forget what I said in my previous comment. My bad...

[dsheinem]

There is a perfect diet, its called stop eating when your full and move your body

"the meal is not over when I am full"

[Luke]

The perfect diet is bacon.

[Zing]

Pre-agricultural man would almost never have gotten heart diseases, cancers, diabetes or suffered from obesity.

That's because pre-agricultural man would die from an infection that stemmed from a small cut at the already ripe age of 25.

Also you have no way of knowing that for sure. You may be correct about diabetes and obesity, but with the average lifespan back then heart disease would have rarely been able to present itself, and the same goes for cancer.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, but just because humans didn't eat grains before hand doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't, or that it leads to being overweight.

After reading the OP, I was going to make a similar post. It appears that the median lifespan of pretty much anyone before 1900AD was 40 or less.

I suspect that grains only lead to being overweight due to the amount consumed and caloric density. The African farmers growing and eating nothing but grains certainly are not overweight. Peoples with diets consisting almost solely of rice they have grown themselves are certainly not overweight.

Any diet extremely high in protein and fibre will probably lead to good health. Unfortunately, the diet of the first-world is low in both.

[Inazuma]

I think the best diet is to eat whatever your body craves at that time, and generally try to avoid unhealthy foods.

I will walk around the supermarket, and buy whatever I want to eat. Then when I am at home and hungry, I will eat whatever I want. This works great for me.

Going off my natural cravings, I tend to mostly eat meats, fruits, veggies and nuts. I also like to eat beans and cereal. I generally dislike bread and dairy. When I eat cereal, I use rice water. When I exercise, I drink coconut water.

It's also very important to exercise regularly, but that much is obvious.

[Erik_Twice]

After reading the OP, I was going to make a similar post. It appears that the median lifespan of pretty much anyone before 1900AD was 40 or less.

Note that the median lifespan includes the incredibly high infant mortalities of the age.

The perfect diet is bacon.

But bacon isn't as tasty if I can't dip it into my coke!