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Debunking season – Debunking “Debunking the Paleo diet” by Christina Warinner 24 Mar 2013 | 12:36 am
The popularity of the Paleo Diet brings a slew of debunking attempts from dietitians and academics answering the call of their vocation to save the world from the big Paleo Diet debacle. It motivated...
Paleofantasy or Paleofantastic? 19 Mar 2013 | 04:57 am
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you and then you win”. This is the famous Gandhi quote rephrasing a quote by a forgotten US union leader by the name of Nicholas Klien. ...
A new paper in Nature lends support to the evolution of the Homo genus toward specialisation (in hunting) 29 Aug 2012 | 10:23 pm
I would intuitively argue that evolutionary adaptations, in any species, are more frequently associated with the need to obtain nourishment than with any other need, including sex. The question of wh...
How varied could past Paleo diets have been and does it really matter? 20 Aug 2012 | 03:40 am
From time to time a prominent Paleolithic researchers of one discipline or another remark, apparently in reference to popular Paleo dogma, that: “there were many Paleo diets” or that “there was no sin...
The obesogenic effect of non-evolutionary “strange’ foods 25 Jul 2012 | 08:23 am
I consider every morning I wake up as another piece of evidence in support of the hypothesis that I am alive. In other words, I try not to forget that most of our conclusions and understandings are n...
Why we gain weight and how to loose weight – the evolutionary answer 27 May 2012 | 12:20 am
The basic reason why evolution has endowed us, and indeed every animal, with the ability to accumulate fat is quite obvious – the accumulation of an energetic buffer to be used at times of shortage. F...
Why we need such big brains part 2 – Ask the Bushmen 13 May 2012 | 07:27 am
As you may recall from the previous post on the subject we are dealing here with two hypotheses generally referred to as “Specialization” and “Versatility”. In other words did our brain grow to enable...
Why we need such big brains? – Diet versatility or diet specialization? 6 May 2012 | 07:50 pm
I am not going to waste the gift of your attention on the question of whether our brain tripled in size in the last 2 million years in order to enable us to obtain sufficient food for survival. Obtain...
Physicist Richard Feynman on the “science” of nutrition 22 Apr 2012 | 06:35 am
There is little argument that Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was one of the greatest thinkers of his time. Tim Ferriss posted a YouTube video on his blog of Feynman’s interview for the BBC program Hor...
Can anecdotes and history match science in guiding Paleo nutrition? 1 Apr 2012 | 02:09 am
Abstract - Yes! Anecdotes and historical lessons can be as valuable as science in nutrition. This is how we managed to cross the first 2.5 million years of our existence as a species. Several promin...
