Paleolithic nutrition: twenty-five years later.

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Nutr Clin Pract. 2010 Dec;25(6):594-602.  A quarter century has passed since the first publication of the evolutionary discordance hypothesis, according to which departures from the nutrition and activity patterns of our hunter-gatherer ancestors  

“Most people are simply not designed to eat pasta”: evolutionary explanations for obesity in the low-carbohydrate diet movement.

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Low-carbohydrate diets, notably the Atkins Diet, were particularly popular in Britain and North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. On the basis of a discourse analysis of bestselling low-carbohydrate diet books, I examine and critique genetic and evolutionary  

Study Showing Both Mediterranean & Paleolithic Diets

Dietary Shifts and Human Health: Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in a Sustainable World.  

Paleolithic diets as a model for prevention and treatment of Western disease.

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OBJECTIVES:

To explore the possibility that a paleolithic-like diet can be used in the prevention of age-related degenerative Western disease.  

Actual causes of death in the United States.

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To identify and quantify the major external (nongenetic) factors that contribute to death in the United States.

To identify and quantify the major external (nongenetic) factors that contribute to death in the United States.  

Saturated fat, carbohydrates and cardiovascular disease.

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The dietary intake of saturated fatty acids (SAFA) is associated with a modest increase in serum total cholesterol, but not with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Replacing dietary SAFA with carbohydrates (CHO), notably those with a high glycaemic index, is associated with an increase in CVD risk in observational cohorts, while replacing SAFA with polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is associated with reduced CVD risk.  

Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet

Background:
The contemporary American diet figures centrally in the pathogenesis of numerous chronic diseases—‘diseases of civilization’. We investigated in humans whether a diet similar to that consumed by our preagricultural hunter-gatherer ancestors (that is, a paleolithic type diet) confers health benefits.