Again, just silliness, rabbits are trapped, not run down. "The anthropologist Bruce Latimer has pointed out that the fastest human being on the planet can’t catch up to your average rabbit" While the article may contribute to a veg vs meat eater discussion, it doesn't have much to say on the paleo front. We know what they didn't eat. They didn't eat sugar, wheat, or processed foods. - Todd Hoff

But to that end, then why even call it a Paleo diet? Why not call it the "Don't eat shit that's become prevalent in the last century" diet since that's where the bulk of processed and sugary foods has come in. It seems weird to ascribe a specific origin to a diet that actually has little to do with the origin. In reality, if you're going to develop a Paleo diet, you're going to need to learn to eat seasonally and seasonally only. You're going to need to learn to only eat those things that are grown around you, not stuff shipped in from other regions, states, countries. You're going to need to use methods used by our Paleo ancestors - which means you don't get to make your Paleo chicken tortilla soup since I'm pretty sure the Paleo folks weren't making chicken broth or tomato paste. I mean, the thing with the Paleo diet isn't the diet itself - it's the ascribing of said diet to Paleo habits. When in reality it's just another flavor of restriction dieting with a fancy name and half-baked backstory attached. - Hookuh Tinypants

For the same reason Mcdonalds doesn't call their Big Mac "faux manufactured in a lab 'food' that will last until the heat death of the universe." Marketing. And like for everything else there are different models of what paleo means and given a model there are different degrees of adherence. You'll find a majority who follow notionally and a much smaller minority who take it quite seriously. - Todd Hoff

My problem is that attributing it to pre-agricultural eating habits while ignoring what pre-agricultural eating habits actually were is basically selling pseudoscience. - Victor Ganata

That's my exact problem with it as well. - Hookuh Tinypants

You mean pseudoscience like the food pyramid? - Todd Hoff

Yes, exactly (although some orgs do update and modify their charts based on current empirical evidence rather than agribusiness interests) - Victor Ganata

I can't even remember the last time anyone referenced the food pyramid. That still happens? Huh. - Hookuh Tinypants

They're usually presented in table form these days. - Victor Ganata

So an even sturdier foundation. - Todd Hoff

In as far as some of them are actually based on evidence. - Victor Ganata

Quite the endorsement. - Todd Hoff

Much like any other set of recommendations, some organizations are actually interested in providing useful guidelines based on the best available data and some organizations are simply interested in selling you something that may not actually be in your best interest. *shrug* #ymmv - Victor Ganata

The food pyramid is big ag promotion tool. So I guess we know where it fits. - Todd Hoff

There isn't just one org that provides nutritional guidelines, and not all of them are beholden to big ag interests. And they're not necessarily trying to sell books or programs for profit. - Victor Ganata

But all the paleo advocates are greedy promoters. Got it. - Todd Hoff

Hey, I get it, we live in a capitalist society, after all. Gotta make that paper. - Victor Ganata