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Hold on a second. I'm reading the Paleo diet, and in theory someone on this diet would not have the same life expectancy as a human living over 10,000 years ago. I don't eat a lot of grains simply because I prefer a diet heavy in veggies and my life expectancy is in the 80s. People on the Paleolithic diet can still utilize everything from safe, public drinking water to antibiotics, which dramatically increase health and increase the likelihood of living a long life.
Let's review. The Paleolithic diet promotes eating fresh fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds, and lean meats and suggests against grains and processed foods. That's perfectly reasonable and completely healthy based on our understanding of modern health. The only real questionable thing I saw skimming the article was the fasting, which seems quite stupid simply because hunter-gatherers were (according to my reading of archeology) perfectly capable of rationing food in order to regularly eat. If you throw out the fasting, the diet really isn't harmful at all.
I'm not going to do it, and I can't see myself recommending it, but let's not indulge in hyperbole.
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