Browsing All posts tagged under »paleolithic diet«

Which modern day athletes look the most like our ancestors? (On how we’re “supposed to move”)

May 2, 2014

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In the paper From athletes to couch potatoes: humans through 6,000 years of farming, the structure of human bones was analyzed by Alison Macintosh. She looked at our bones starting ~7,300 years ago and ended with current students at the University of Cambridge. “Using a portable desktop 3D laser surface scanner to scan femora and tibiae, she […]

The other side of “logical eating” (Paleo and CrossFit nonsense)

February 6, 2012

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This post stems from certain groups, like CrossFit, who state phrases to the tune of, “Eat like a caveman! If a caveman couldn’t kill it or pick it, then we shouldn’t eat it! We weren’t designed to eat man made foods! Sugar is the devil!” The advent of agriculture is essentially shunned and blamed for […]