Quote: (03-29-2013 06:26 PM)RichieP Wrote:
Can you give a summary - what exactly does she "debunk"?
If she's asserting that our ancestors ate grains/carbs, that's one thing.
If she's asserting that clean meat + veggies + good fats (i.e. Paleo) isnt a pretty much optimal diet for humans, that's another. And she'd be wrong.
She takes issue with the claim that the paleo diet is at all a true reflection of how humans ate in paleolithic times. Making the fairly obvious points (to any informed observer, at least) that paleolithic humans were not eating pounds of fattened cow in every meal and that modern fruits and vegetables have been deliberately bred by us and brought from all over the world only in recent history.
She promotes food diversity as the most important factor in a healthy diet. At no time does she say that the modern "paleo" diet is unhealthy. I don't think anyone can deny that a hight volume and variety of fruits and vegetables together with quality protein is a fairly optimal diet.