From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 15:33:29 MDT
> gts wrote:
>
>> Where is the evidence that milk and cheese add anything to health
>> and longevity? There is none. Likewise with agricultural products.
This is exactly the kind of overblown, simplistic, black-and-white
rhetoric that makes it hard to take "true believers" seriously.
There is /mountains/ of evidence for the health benefits of dairy,
grains, and beans, and gts knows this as well as anyone. Yes, the
industries that promote these products selectively promote studies
that show their products in a good light--that's their bread and
butter, after all. But selectively ignoring all of those studies is
no better. It's also true that most of those studies were controlled
against a baseline of a modern agricultural diet without the subject
food rather than being baselined against a more thorough and
complete diet. It's good to call all those things into question,
and to criticize all these prior results and look for better results.
But to dismiss them out of hand is dogmatic hand-waving just as bad
as what the industries do.
Paleodiet is very good theory--but it shouldn't be a religion.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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