Quote: (03-06-2014 10:36 PM)apoclater Wrote:
For those who claim the paleo diet is a fad diet…go to a natural history museum and look at what humans ate. They started with the fattiest and most nutrient-dense parts of meat they could find--marrow, organ meats, and fat-dense parts. Lean parts such as breasts were junk meat.
Think about what you crave--delicious, melt in your mouth marbled red meat. High fat, high protein. I don't EVER crave a big spinach salad sprinkled with low-fat dressing and some chopped up vegetables (although I eat asparagus cooked in bacon fat as an accessory to my steak). If we craved the OPPOSITE of what is actually healthy for us, we would be the sole species on earth that is true for. Can you imagine our genes saying "vegetables are healthy for you, but you should eat meat", and have to self-control for that? Cats get fat from grain-heavy diets and thrive on meat-heavy diets. Dogs too. I'm not saying our diets should be similar to cats or dogs, I'm just saying if you switch a dog from the crap that you find in the grocery store to a high-quality meat-based food, you will notice a huge difference in energy levels, health, etc--just like humans.
Guys, do a little more research before you call paleo a fad diet. Diet is like religion for a lot of people (maybe even worse in terms of zealotry)--they've grown up with it a certain way and don't believe it should be any other way. I would hate to see guys on this board posting topics about how they can't get big on a diet consisting of protein shakes, vegetables, and soy.
Go skin and prep a Bison and report back on how great your Paleo is....
It's all cute and nice when you can drive to the grocery store and buy a bag of chicken breast and some steaks.
Humans quickly ditched the Paleo style diet when they figured out they could use their brains to figure out complex growing systems that would give then more calories for less work. Agriculture was born and you had a surge of human population as a result. After that time little animals such as chickens, fish, lambs, goats, rabbits, ducks, pigs*, etc were all favorited for to ease of taking care of them.
Humans always take the path of least resistance. Our we lazy? I wouldn't say that, but we are just more efficient. We would of never ditched Paleo for agriculture if Paleo gave more benefits (of calories) and was easier.
Humans have more in common with horses then dogs or cats. Dogs an cats are carnivores and if you look at their teeth, they are designed to rip flesh. They exert less energy to attain energy from meat because they can easily rip and break it down themselves. A human meanwhile only has 4 carnivore tearing teeth, while we have at least 16 flat crushers for crushing down grains and ruffage, are teeth look more like horses versus a cougar. If we were designed to eat meat in high amounts are teeth would of evolved to reflect that instead of us ester ting large amounts of energy just to derive the calories from our meat through labour and prep.
It's still less work to grind grains into flour.. By hand.. With a mill then it is to skin, dress, and prep large animal flesh. Think of why we loved fishing.. A fish can be scaled and gutted in as little as 20 minutes, you can grill it in the same amount of time and eat it. It was easy to preserve and close to the flat lying area near water where humans lived.
Paleo is a fad.
