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The Paleo Ploy

Paleo Project Questions (the link to the video is below)

The Paleolithic diet appears to have replaced the Atkins diet is the low-carb
champion of the day. The problem is that few people look critically at what seems on
the surface to be a logical supposition: we should turn away from civilized foods and
eat like our Paleolithic ancestors in order to be healthy. But just what does that
mean? What is the Paleolithic Period? Which ancestors are we talking about? And
what relevance does it have today?

The voiceover PowerPoint will help you take a critical look at some of these
questions and some of the claims made by advocates of the Paley oh diet.

Following are some questions that you can answer after your own thoughtful
consideration. Like the Pima project, this is an exercise in being skeptical.

1. What is the basic premise of the Paleo Diet?

Since the beginning of the Paleo period our ancestors lived off meats, vegetables,
fruits and nuts. Our diet has changed these past 10,000 years due to agriculture and
our species began to eat starchy foods like legumes, grains and potatoes.

2. What foods does the Palo Diet say to avoid and why?
Avoid : grains, legumes, potatoes, dairy, sugar and salt.

3. Are there any flaws in this reasoning? What are they?

Diets that requires consumption of 40% protein is toxic due to our bodies
limited capacity to process nitrogen. Also the diet is hard to follow since the
amount of fruits and vegetables a person must consume to obtain energy is
too large. Also, diets that are low in carbs requires the person to consume
large amount of fat.

4. How does evolution fit with the Paleo Diet, or does it?
Evolution does not fit with the Paleo diet because is our ancestors did
consume starchy foods.
 5. Would an athlete benefit from the Paleo Diet?
The athlete would not benefit from the Paleo diet because they need large
amounts of carbohydrates to provide fuel for their bodies during rigorous training.

6. What distinguishes the Paleo diet from other low-carb popular diets, i.e. The
Atkins Diet, ketogenic diets, the South Beach diet?
They are all fads diets created to trick people into buying promising diets that
are hard to follow, harmful and, expensive.

7. How do you distinguish popular diets from nutritional science? Where do

you look? How do you evaluate an idea that is presented to you as scientific
fact?
Popular diets don’t have a scientific support and nutritional science does.
There are a few government sources such as myplate.gov that helps people to
learn about nutrition and they provide recipes that are easy to follow and
affordable. My husband is a type of guy that likes to listen to fit gurus and he
always presents me with articles about people extreme weight loss and
nutrition. Two days ago he came to me and said that his fitness guru female
yoga teacher explained to him that nutrition cures cancer. I almost fell off the
chair after hearing this so, I question my husband by asking him if nutrition
cures cancer then how come there are people dying with cancer. I have a
bachelors in Biology so I do have more knowledge than he does when comes
to science but, my husband does not listen to me so to convince him I look for
scientific published articles by Nature or Pubmed and try to explain to him
about our body’s metabolism when he is willing to listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VcLiw6tPM