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Originally Posted by Willravel
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.
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I am impressed by the overreactions to the media spin on the diet and the actions of some extremists.
You are right Will - the diet is in fact very healthy. It says eat whole foods, not processed. Eat the food we evolved with over millions of years - meat, nuts, veggies and fruit.
As to the fasting, there is nothing wrong with a little fasting. I don't do it myself, but about a billion Muslims around the world do it regularly and they don't seem any the worse for it. Going to extremes is a little out there, IMO, but fasting for 12 or 24 hours is not going to hurt anyone.