Paleo Fantasy

Despite thousands of people having great real-life success stories, people can’t see the forest for the trees, and get hung up on the basic terminology of the word “paleo”. In fact, one lady was so incensed that she chose to write a whole book on it.

At UPG, we’re not tied to the fact that cavemen ate exactly what we have on our food list. That said, we think it’s funny that thousands and thousands of people have real life evidence (themselves!) of actual health improvements, and that people continue to get stuck on nailing down the exact dietary habits of cavemen.

Whatever Grok ate 20,000 years ago, you can be dang sure that it was way healthier than whatever most people are stuffing into their faces today.

One of this lady’s main points reads:

“We have a regrettable tendency to see what we want to see and rationalize what we already want to do. That often means that if we can think of a way in which a behavior, whether it is eating junk food or having an affair, might have been beneficial in an ancestral environment, we feel vindicated, or at least justified.”

It’s apparent that she’s not familiar with the actual scientific underpinnings of the diet (or the community of people behind it), as paleo diet followers tend to eat less “junk”, considering they’re eating meats, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. 

You can read the full post over at Salon

Photo credit: Richard Eriksson