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- Richard Nikoley: 6-years Of Self Experimenting: My Fully Integrated Approach To Paleo / Primal Eating, Real Food And Vibrant Health
His book, also recommended by Nassim Taleb, is Free The Animal. I likely would not have done much beyond a simple low carbohydrate, Paleo / Primal diet—combined with intermittent fasting, some supplementation of fat soluble vitamins and a mineral or...
- The Paleo Diet: Can We Really Eat Like Our Ancestors Did?
Fundamentally, I am a proponent of the Paleolithic diet. However, much depends on the specifics of the Paleo diet in question. The designation seems to be somewhat open to interpretation -- and thus the dietary devilry may reside in the details. That,...
- Gary Taubes' Latest Blog Post
When last I posted, oh so long ago, I promised next to discuss the food reward/palatability hypothesis of obesity and why I find it so uncompelling and more than a little bit disheartening. Why, in effect, I think it is the kind of bad science that begs...
- The Archevore Diet
Kurt Harris has updated his "Archevore Diet" to reflect his current thinking. Link to: The Archevore Diet ……………….. Related previous posts: Art De Vany's Zurich Minds Talk: "Evolutionary Fitness" Art De Vany’s Essay on Evolutionary Fitness...
- Art De Vany's Zurich Minds Talk: "evolutionary Fitness"
Link to: Art De Vany's Zurich Minds Talk .................... Related previous posts:Excerpt from The New Evolution DietThe New Evolution DietArt De Vany’s Essay on Evolutionary FitnessArt De Vany on EconTalkBooks:The New Evolution DietHollywood...
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Saving Private Paleo - by Richard Nikoley
There is no such thing as "being" Paleo
There's no "doing" Paleo, either. In fact, nothing "is" Paleo. There are no Paleo foods, no Paleo diets, no Paleo bbq sauces, no Paleo cupcakes, no Paleo snack packs. Grassfed beef and pastured eggs are not Paleo.
You can't go to a restaurant and find anything Paleo on the menu. There's no mail order that delivers Paleo. You are not Paleo, you can't be Paleo, and you never will be Paleo. There's no magic formula. There's no such thing as "I'm Paleo," and there never was.
What there is, however, is THINKING Paleo. Get it? Or, in professor De Vany's original parlance, Evolutionary Fitness. It's a state of mind, a way of thinking about all the choices you have to act upon. There are no absolutes, there's only for better or worse. That's it. That's really the whole basic formula.
Over time, knowledge of what's better vs. what's worse improves. That's why we ought to do science—to make better and better choices in our lives...and not so we can beat someone over the head with a study that "confirms" what we've been saying.
I'll keep with Art for a while here because once I began thinking of this recently, I recall how simple and elegant he made it all.
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Related books:
Free The Animal
The New Evolution Diet
Link to: Art De Vany’s new site
- Richard Nikoley: 6-years Of Self Experimenting: My Fully Integrated Approach To Paleo / Primal Eating, Real Food And Vibrant Health
His book, also recommended by Nassim Taleb, is Free The Animal. I likely would not have done much beyond a simple low carbohydrate, Paleo / Primal diet—combined with intermittent fasting, some supplementation of fat soluble vitamins and a mineral or...
- The Paleo Diet: Can We Really Eat Like Our Ancestors Did?
Fundamentally, I am a proponent of the Paleolithic diet. However, much depends on the specifics of the Paleo diet in question. The designation seems to be somewhat open to interpretation -- and thus the dietary devilry may reside in the details. That,...
- Gary Taubes' Latest Blog Post
When last I posted, oh so long ago, I promised next to discuss the food reward/palatability hypothesis of obesity and why I find it so uncompelling and more than a little bit disheartening. Why, in effect, I think it is the kind of bad science that begs...
- The Archevore Diet
Kurt Harris has updated his "Archevore Diet" to reflect his current thinking. Link to: The Archevore Diet ……………….. Related previous posts: Art De Vany's Zurich Minds Talk: "Evolutionary Fitness" Art De Vany’s Essay on Evolutionary Fitness...
- Art De Vany's Zurich Minds Talk: "evolutionary Fitness"
Link to: Art De Vany's Zurich Minds Talk .................... Related previous posts:Excerpt from The New Evolution DietThe New Evolution DietArt De Vany’s Essay on Evolutionary FitnessArt De Vany on EconTalkBooks:The New Evolution DietHollywood...