Monday, June 6, 2011

Poll: Paleo Diet - Cult, Fad or Solution?

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This past decade the paleo Click Here!">dieting trend hit the mainstream teaching it's followers to reject our modern Click Here!">diet and embrace one from 10,000 years ago.

Since Loren Cordain's popular book many other versions of the paleolithic or ancestral Click Here!">diet have emerged, but is this old way of eating really necessary to our survival as humans or is the paleolithic Click Here!">diet becoming more like a religion?

Leigh Peele recently wrote a very extensive article exploring the Paleo Click Here!">Diet phenomena. In this article she looks at the Click Here!">diet of the paleothic era, the lifestyle of that era, and discusses whether or not it's truly beneficial for us to try to return to that way of eating.

She also discusses how the paleolithic Click Here!">diet has even begun to form somewhat of a cult or religious philosophy among it's followers.

Peele brings up some good points that I tend to agree with. Why would we want to follow a Click Here!">diet that our "relatively stupid" ancestors followed? Surely our bodies have evolved along with our minds.

What do you think? Is the paleo Click Here!">diet a solution to obesity or is it a fad or even a new cult? Participate in the poll and comments below.

What is your opinion of the paleolithic type Click Here!">diet?


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