Comments on: Back to the Roots, or Pass the Ketchup Please? http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267 Blogs Related to the Examination of Evolutionary Theory in Higher Education Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:46:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rose Chang http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-454 Rose Chang Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:00:54 +0000 http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267#comment-454 Thanks Steve. I respect your perspective here - and definitely feel you on the non-processed foods. I have gone through stints with wheat and dairy intolerances, but mostly if I eat closer to the actual source of the food, I feel better too. I have heard many incarnations of the "caveman diet" (caveman, itself, being a bit of a misnomer for the evolution of humans!) that focus on lots of meat, then some fruit, nuts, etc. I can respect your version much more (Steve has a FB page for his diet, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steves-non-processed-Paleo-recipes/108489865856384?ref=ts) with your recipes that are more non-processed versions of food we eat. With so much research showing the bulk of calories coming from tubers, and other gathered food sources in hunter-gatherer societies, eating so much meat seems oxymoronic to me! Where does coffee fit into your paleo diet? A person can only go so far... :) Thanks Steve. I respect your perspective here – and definitely feel you on the non-processed foods. I have gone through stints with wheat and dairy intolerances, but mostly if I eat closer to the actual source of the food, I feel better too.

I have heard many incarnations of the “caveman diet” (caveman, itself, being a bit of a misnomer for the evolution of humans!) that focus on lots of meat, then some fruit, nuts, etc. I can respect your version much more (Steve has a FB page for his diet, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steves-non-processed-Paleo-recipes/108489865856384?ref=ts) with your recipes that are more non-processed versions of food we eat. With so much research showing the bulk of calories coming from tubers, and other gathered food sources in hunter-gatherer societies, eating so much meat seems oxymoronic to me!

Where does coffee fit into your paleo diet? A person can only go so far… :)

]]> By: Steve Platek http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-453 Steve Platek Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:50:29 +0000 http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267#comment-453 Rose, cool post. Glenn turned me onto it. I agree with most of what you say. I especially agree with the notion of Processed foods being the problem. But agriculture might be a means of "processing" foods through genetic modification. That being said, everything we now consume is genetically manufactured in some form. I eat the ancestor way and I must admit eliminating dairy, for which I've never had even a single bad reaction to (i.e. I would not consider myself Lactose Intolerant, maybe just generally intolerant ;-) However, shortly after eliminating dairy I noticed that my joints felt, well, better. I had fuller range of motion, less knuckle and joint cracking, etc. My strength has also increased, and the list goes on. The same benefits were seen for elimination of processed grains - pasta, rice, etc. Just my 2¢ Lastly, I must say I whole-heartedly agree with "walk the walk" and there are now a few good programs of research showing that the high intensity, short bursts, and long trains of tracking, climbing, etc emulate the "ancestral" lifestyle. So it's probably not that all of our ancestors had to track 20 miles to get some food... Great post! Thanks, SP Rose, cool post. Glenn turned me onto it.
I agree with most of what you say. I especially agree with the notion of Processed foods being the problem. But agriculture might be a means of “processing” foods through genetic modification.

That being said, everything we now consume is genetically manufactured in some form. I eat the ancestor way and I must admit eliminating dairy, for which I’ve never had even a single bad reaction to (i.e. I would not consider myself Lactose Intolerant, maybe just generally intolerant ;-) However, shortly after eliminating dairy I noticed that my joints felt, well, better. I had fuller range of motion, less knuckle and joint cracking, etc. My strength has also increased, and the list goes on. The same benefits were seen for elimination of processed grains – pasta, rice, etc. Just my 2¢

Lastly, I must say I whole-heartedly agree with “walk the walk” and there are now a few good programs of research showing that the high intensity, short bursts, and long trains of tracking, climbing, etc emulate the “ancestral” lifestyle. So it’s probably not that all of our ancestors had to track 20 miles to get some food…

Great post!
Thanks,
SP

]]> By: Glenn Geher http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-182 Glenn Geher Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:06:18 +0000 http://evostudies.org/blog/?p=267#comment-182 Rose - AWESOME posting - you capture the essence of the issue of evolutionary mismatch regarding human diet very well here. I bet Richard Wrangham, author of "Catching Fire," which is all about culinary behavior and human evolution, will have a lot to say on this topic in his NEEPS 2010 Keynote address. http://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0465013627 Yes, yet another coup for the best intellectual society going! Rose – AWESOME posting – you capture the essence of the issue of evolutionary mismatch regarding human diet very well here. I bet Richard Wrangham, author of “Catching Fire,” which is all about culinary behavior and human evolution, will have a lot to say on this topic in his NEEPS 2010 Keynote address.

http://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0465013627

Yes, yet another coup for the best intellectual society going!

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