Re: Low-carb diets get thermodynamic defence

From: Lyle McDonald (lylemcd_at_grandecomIMRETARDED.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:12:21 -0500

Randy Shrader wrote:
> Lyle McDonald wrote:
>
>>Ignoramus29728 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>What the paleo folks are also saying, is that as soon as ancient
>>>people started eating grains, they started having health problem and
>>>deaths from diseases cut life expectancy. I saw a number stated that
>>>life expectancy dropped by 30 years.
>>>
>>>Whether that is actually true, is not clear to me as I like to see
>>>more evidence than I have seen.
>>
>>If they can source it, great.
>>I have a feeling it's a lot of bull***.
>>
>
>
> Skeletal remains show the appearance of deficiency diseases that coincide
> with the development of agriculture, simply because people then were just as
> lazy as they are now. Once they'd domesticated a plant they'd quit all that
> nasty gathering bull*** and get most of their calories from a single
> source.

But this is a fundamentally very different situation then that of a
mixed diet containing said refined source. As I mentioned in another
context, the presence of iron-deficiency anemia suggests the problem
being the lack of red meat, not the presence of refined grains per se.

Of course, if refining grains mean people start eating less of the stuff
they need, that's one thing entirely.

It says a lot about nutritionally unbalanced diets.
It says nothing about a diet containing both (i.e. modern diet).

Lyle

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