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Originally Posted by BigJimCalhoun
I listen to the podcasts from Robb Wolf.
Much of the paleo diet is avoiding dairy, legumes and grains. I tend to follow the Weston A. Price diet which is similar except major differences are:
- Raw unpasturized dairy is ok
- grains and legumes that have been soaked/sprouted are ok.
Aside from that, it is very similar. Both are not afraid of saturated fats and though paleo/weston a price differ, compared to everything else, they are 95% in alignment.
After listening the podcasts from Robb, I found he is not the zealot that I thought he was. In episode #69, he did not disagree with the doctor promoting raw mik and he himself eats out a few times a week and may have beans with Mexican.
Loren Cordain was whom Robb studied under at CSU. Loren was on another podcast and recomended striving for 18 out of 21 meals/week paleo. I guess my point is two of the best known voices in the paleo movement are not unreasonable.
I have been doing the Weston A Price/Paleo now for 1.5 months and love it.
Also check out westonaprice.org. |
Robb has strayed away from Loren Cordain's overly strict Paleo principles (which I think is a good thing) mostly because of Cordain's refusal to look at the saturated fat issue. One thing to keep in mind is that 99% of the things that Mark Sisson/Robb Wolf/Cordain base their diets on is derived from observational studies, which look at correlations of diet and lack of disease based on observation or historical accounts of hunter gatherers. Correlation shouldn't be misconstrued with causation, so some may view these studies with a fair amount of skepticism. Weston A. Price (WAP) did similar investigations (he was a dentist, originally looking at why hunter gatherers didn't have the same dental issues as "civilized" westerners), only he expanded and looked at groups like the Maasai (who consume large quantities of raw dairy) and some other groups that consumed sprouted grains. Personally, I like the WAP approach, mostly because cheese and milk are damn good.
If you really want to get into the scientific parts of the diet, check out Mat Lalonde, he is an organic chemist who has been looking at why the "paleo" diet actually works using more rigorous analytical methods. Robb Wolf has him on one of his podcasts, or you can get an 8 hour lecture that Mat did @ Crossfit Academy of Lions (
http://academyoflions.com/events/mat-lalonde-ph-d/)
Unfortunately, I see Paleo going the route of many Crossfitters- just another "thing" that makes them better than everyone else. That's my $0.02, YMMV.