Why Paleo?

It's hard to be 100% “Paleo”, especially when you love wine! As far as being a food snob is concerned, I think that's good. Why pollute your body with crap when there are so many “real foods” that are nutritious and delicious?…….Thanks for the mention too!

Been Paleo for the better part of 3 months and I will never go back. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Food taste better too.

I really have an issue with the first sentence of the quotation; I believe it is wholly inaccurate and grossly misleading.

The sentence,”Science has yet come close to matching Mother Nature’s nutritious produce,” makes the false presumption that the produce and meat that is available in fort world countries’ grocery stores is the same as 2.6 million years ago. In fact, an overwhelming majority of the vegetable and fruits anyone anywhere eats are cultivated (that is, refined through selective breeding and controlled growing yielding desired attributes) and have been altered significantly from their “original” breed that existed 2.6 MYA. It is in fact sciences, such as horticulture, animal husbandry, genetics, fertilization, chemistry, meteorology, geometry, botany and zoology, that have lead to the abundant nutritional options afforded to us today.

Some examples of this amazing adaptation of available resources to fit our needs include the cultivation of the fig (one of the first fruits domesticated), in circa 9400 BCE in the Mid East, sheep in 10, 000 BCE, which was also around the same time as the taming of rice in central Asia. And to mention rice again, Norman Borlaug’s contribution through science of a high-yield strain of rice saved billions of people from starvation. Billions. Yes, with a a”b.”

So, I think that the assertion that science has not produced anything near the nutritional value of the food found in mother nature is wrong, and I do not see what insight that statement offers into nutritional optimization of athletes. I have not seen that there is research or evidence of the claims the paleo diet manifesto makes.

I really have an issue with the first sentence of the quotation; I believe it is wholly inaccurate and grossly misleading.

The sentence,”Science has yet come close to matching Mother Nature's nutritious produce,” makes the false presumption that the produce and meat that is available in fort world countries' grocery stores is the same as 2.6 million years ago. In fact, an overwhelming majority of the vegetable and fruits anyone anywhere eats are cultivated (that is, refined through selective breeding and controlled growing yielding desired attributes) and have been altered significantly from their “original” breed that existed 2.6 MYA. It is in fact sciences, such as horticulture, animal husbandry, genetics, fertilization, chemistry, meteorology, geometry, botany and zoology, that have lead to the abundant nutritional options afforded to us today.

Some examples of this amazing adaptation of available resources to fit our needs include the cultivation of the fig (one of the first fruits domesticated), in circa 9400 BCE in the Mid East, sheep in 10, 000 BCE, which was also around the same time as the taming of rice in central Asia. And to mention rice again, Norman Borlaug's contribution through science of a high-yield strain of rice saved billions of people from starvation. Billions. Yes, with a a”b.”

So, I think that the assertion that science has not produced anything near the nutritional value of the food found in mother nature is wrong, and I do not see what insight that statement offers into nutritional optimization of athletes. I have not seen that there is research or evidence of the claims the paleo diet manifesto makes.