By the way, warriors did not carry excess muscle. Simply not enough rest to caloric availability to achieve more than survival levels. C’mon dude, get real.

If you read everything he says, you won’t know WHAT to do except BUY his program. What a joke. He is guilty of the same crap he accuses everyone else of; lack of evidence, lack of scientifically validated studies, vague principles, marketing hype/motive. Note how he loves to quote scientific studies but then when it comes to protein intake, he tells you “. Use your common sense. Through trial and error you’ll find what works best for you.” Wow now that is some real enlightening junk. He tells you everything is wrong except HIS diet, which he will sell you, and I bet follows some kinds of measurements and ratios. Bodybuilders are clueless? Now that is REALLY laughable.

One of the more popular diets in the media is the Paleolithic diet, that our long ago ancestor’s ate, before the industrial revolution and well before pocket societies were established. This diet has received much attention as of late, following the release of Dr. Loren Cordain’s book ‘The Paleo Diet.’ Many readers use Dr. Cordain’s book as their justification to consume a high meat, high fat diet, despite a mountain of evidence indicating that meat dominate diets are actually the problem and result in premature aging and disease. ?

Many people have come to the conclusion that our ancestors predominately lived on animal flesh because the bones of animals were discovered near campsites. The remains of plants do not survive in same way that bones do. It would be more plausible that, our ancestors, out of necessity, ate locally growing wild plants and moved about to locate them. They killed and ate animals when they could, but these opportunities were few and far between. ?

These stone age peoples were not the carnivores that the proponents claim. The reason for this is; hunting and killing animals is not easy and those humans were bipedal beings who were considerably slower than the animals that they were seeking to eat and they had no technology to assist in hunting and killing prey (they had no means of storing food for any period of time either). Visualise yourself chasing down a beast with your bare feet/hands and flat blunt teeth- this would actually be quite amusing!

The main problem with Cordain, one of the leading expert proponents in the use of low grain and natural meat diets, is that the basis of his theory has nothing with science to do as it is impossible to falsify. We will never learn what our ancestors ate in the caves or elsewhere, in particular not how much. Neither will we learn if their diet was beneficial or harmful to their health. Said that, I think it is a good idea to stick to natural food undisturbed by the food industry.

One of her other arguments against Cordain is that paleolithic time was about 2 million years and that there (of course) was an immense variation in these people´s diet. This is also what has been observed among present days´ primitive people. Which of their diets should we choose? Throughout history humans have migrated all over the planet, at times enduring scarcity and famine, conversely experiencing much abundance. Just because humans consumed a particular diet (due to availability or lack thereof) does not mean that following these dietary patterns is optimal or consistent with health longevity. Therefore one cannot extrapolate from the ancestral diet to today’s circumstances.

This is somewhat irrelevant in that we are not hunter/gatherers or cave dwellers anymore and humans are not dying of infectious disease or starvation, but of disease’s of dietary excess, body pollution and poor lifestyle choices. Cave dwellers didn’t live long enough to experience degenerative disease.??

In my opinon the main argument against cavemen diet and anti-grain diets is the fact that some of the healthiest cultures around the world consume small amounts animal foods and always have (2-3 serves per week), but the majority of total weekly calories consist of wide variety of unrefined plant based material, with organic animal foods used as condiments. In John Robbins book Healthy at 100, he presents the research on the worlds longest living and healthiest peoples such as, the Hunzan’s, Abkhasians , Okinawans and Vilcabamban’s. The average individual in these cultures lives to 110 years of age, happy, vibrant, active and coherent. They consume low fat plant based diets, with little or no meat.?? For example, the Vilcabambans enjoy organically-grown fruits and vegetables along with whole grains for plenty of fiber. They eat meat only about once a month, and their diet is low in fat.

In contrast, there is no successful population that lives or has lived on a meat-based diet!!!!!!! For example the Inuit Greenlanders have the worst longevity statistics in North America and this can be due to their high consumption of meat and low consumption of fresh whole foods. Legitimate research shows that these people have higher rates of cancer and die 10 years younger than the average general population of Canada.
Similarly, the Maasai in Kenya are a tribe that hunt and eat a diet rich in meats and wild game and they have the worst life expectancy in the modern world. The average lifespan for a Masai women is 49 and for men it is 45 and if they reach the age of 60 they are considered to be very old. Adult mortality rates figures on the Masai, show that they have 50% chance of dying before the age of 59. Although the Masai’s short life spans is linked to their harsh living conditions, their diets high in meat and low in fresh whole foods still take their toll. Dr. George Mann, who once was an advocate of the Masai diet, went extremely quiet several decades ago when he conducted autopsies on 50 Masai men in their 40’s who had the atherosclerosis of men in their 90’s. If these men hadn’t died so young, they would have had the same degenerative disease that we do in Western countries!!!!!!!?

Scientists have now been able to conclusively determine the best diet for ideal health by measuring the diet/lifestyle versus the disease rates of various populations world wide. We now know that greatly increasing the consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, raw nuts, seeds and whole grains (and greatly decreasing the consumption of animal products) offers profound increased longevity potential. This is due in part to a broad symphony of life-extending phytochemical nutrients that a vegetable-based diet contains.

I personally eat breakfast as my largest meal of the day, and 60-80% of my caloric intake comes from organic sources of saturated fat. I eat dinner for breakfast and I have done so for the past 12 months. I have lost weight, built muscle & improved my training performance, balanced my menstrual cycle and cleared up acne that every professional I sought out assured me I would have for life.

I train 6 days a week, in the earlier part of the day before 12pm. This means I’m helping my natural wake-sleep cycle regulate itself by stimulating my adrenal glands to produce their awakening hormones as they would naturally if we were living more in touch with mother nature’s natural rhythm. I never train on an empty stomach, as it stimulates my system to become overly catabolic, meaning tissue destructive and fat is not the tissue the body uses to break down first. Fat stores toxins, and shifts them away from our organs. It’s the last place a body under stress will want to burn fat from as we have a very strong inbuilt instinct to survive. I make sure I eat within the hour after training and I eat a good source of protein and fat, so my body will use that fat to detoxify and allow my body to burn the fat I have stored on my body. It’s a pretty simple system, and I feel pretty amazing following it.

I was really excited about reading your article. Unfortunately it’s exactly this type of advice that is burning more people out there up, especially women.

Now, if I am suffering from chronic stress, and elevated cortisol on a regular basis, and a really bad, unhealthy waist:hip ratio, WHY would I want to aggravate and ecourage this “fight or flight” reaction in the body? Wouldn’t that be a bit counterproductive? How is someone who is already suffering stress-related obesity supposed to react to the suggestion that they should try to keep that reaction going by skipping breakfast?