Creepy Condescending Wonka

That's true: people say the paleo diet makes you live longer, but the typical caveman died around 35.

It isn't completely off base. Unlike veganism, it doesn't try to deny human nature by forbidding meat. Despite what vegans say, humans are omnivorous, as well as predators. In fact, we're the biggest predators on the planet.

I agree, the Paleo Diet makes more sense than a Vegan Diet, since we are evolved to hunt. It's just the past 30 years when nutritionists pushed the "low fat high carb" diet when everyone started getting fat. I've been on it on and off for about 3 weeks, and it's definitely helped to maintain my blood sugar from going up too quickly.

Isn't that the average age of death though?

It was, because caveman didn't know proper sanitation and didn't have shelter, and were extremely stressed due to the fear of being hunted down by tigers. But they were much healthier than us, because they exercised most of the day for hunting. However, unlike the modern paleo diet, they didn't eat a lot of meat. That's where most people (including me) were misconceptionized.

But the thing is (just like with many other cultures) if it's the average age, then the reason why it's so low is because of the infant mortality rate and the frequency at which people died of disease, not because people were dying of old age at thirty.

That's what I was trying to say, they died young and had high mortality rates because they didn't have the tools to protect themselves with the modern medicine, shelter, and technology we have today. But I'm not sure about paleolithic women, because they don't mention about what women did.

Ok that's fine, it just bugs me when people say that in the ancient and prehistoric world, people died of "old age" around thirty :)

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The cream tower looks...glorious

I deleted my original comment, because I didn't understand it was a pun. Lol! :)

LOL

Quinoa is not paleo though, because it has grains. But you'll see middle aged woman foraging the aisles bragging about the new health fad they've been trying.

I'd like to hear "paleo" dieters tout the benefits of living with internal parasites, like our stone age ancestors. :)

The Paleo Diet was discovered in the 70s, at a time when people believed low fat diets were better. And sugar companies used their lobbying power to silence those who said the opposite. There is still much more research to be done, but generally, legumes were avoided because it grew in the ground and was dirty (not safe for consumption).

I'm happy we have the luxury to choose our diets :)

That is Golem from Lord of the Rings. Famous Cave dweller

If they eat a diet void of wheat, dairy, and legumes, then yes.