Paleo Diet Losing Ground to Scavenger Diet
A new diet craze is sweeping the nation – and sweeping away the so-called “Paleo Diet”. The paleo diet, modeled on the eponymous 2002 book by Loren Cordain, admonishes us to eat like our paleolithic ancestors who roamed the earth between 2.6 million and ten thousand years ago. This has led people to a diet of fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts, lean meats and, oddly, bacon. But new research has shown that our ancient ancestors, as they spread out over the globe like toenail fungus in a men’s locker room,…
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