Looking to get started right and read my story about how I and my entire family lost weight and got healthy following a Paleo-style diet? I included many of our favorite meals and even a great shopping list!
I am a consistent Redditor (http://www.reddit.com) and I tire of having people crap all over the diet I eat myself and feed my family. Standard American Diet eaters, Cardiologists, Personal Trainers, Vegans, Vegetarians, China Study Correlationists, Armchair Quarterbacks and many others will rant and rave about the lack of scientific evidence and how eating bacon will put you in your grave by 40.
I feel for them because they have been educated to believe what the government says. what educational systems say is true, and to never believe something that is directly contrary to those beliefs. I get that. I get that high-fat, high-protein diet is scary because of the cultural pressures we face as Americans.... hell, as Westerners.
So, I decided to make it easier for all of us and start posting a long, exhaustive list of supporting evidence. Now, be warned, there have been no detailed, LONG-TERM studies of Paleo Diet eaters directly. We can look at data for those tribal peoples who still subsist on a Hunter-Gather lifestyle but that's not exactly the same thing. HOWEVER, naysayers have the same burden of truth because there has never been a research study that proved Paleo eaters are going to have some massive heart problems. Correlation is not causation.
- Australian Aboriginals with Diabetes Relieved with Their Native Diet
- European Study
- It's the Milk, Not the Meat
- Journal of Cancer Research: Low-Carb, High Protein Slows Cancer Growth and Inhibits Start
- Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers
- New England Journal of Medicine: High-Fat, Low-carb as a Treatment
- New England Journal of Medicine: Weight-loss Comparison of Diets
- Randomized Cross-over Pilot Study on Paleo Diet Effects on Cardiovascular Disease and Type II Diabetes
- Saturated Fat has No Effect on Stroke, Heart Attack, or other Cardiovascular Disease
- Saturated Fat, Carbohydrates, and Cardiovascular Disease
- Spectrum of Gluten-Related Disorders
- STUDY: Health Improvements from a Paleo-style Diet
Excellent Resources but Not Scientific Proof (Not Peer-Reviewed)
An awesome InfoGraphic of the Paleolithic Diet:
http://infographic.paleolithicdiet.com/
The Biggest Mistake in the History of the Human Race, 1987, Discover Magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race/?searchterm=caveman%20diet
Weston A. Price Foundation
http://www.westonaprice.org/
Gary Taubes original NY Times article about why we get fat (This guy was the start for me...)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=print
Paleo Diet InfoGraphic
http://infographic.paleolithicdiet.com/
William Banting’s Letter on Corpulence from 1869 (Wait, how old is eating Paelo?)
http://archive.supermarketguru.com/Downloads/Banting.pdf