From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 16:23:09 MDT
I William Wiser wrote:
[gts wrote:]
>> It's a question of who has the burden of proof.
>
> I think the default of most people, scientist, and nutrition
> scientists is the status quo.
Welcome to the discussion.
I agree. Sad thing, too. Most people have come to believe that the modern
American diet is perfectly natural and thus the default diet. And yet here
we are in the midst of a national health crisis. Obesity and diabetes have
reached epidemic proportions. Something is very wrong, and you can be very
sure that the dairy and grain industries are not going to help us identify
the problem. In fact they will fight very hard through their lobbyists to
suppress any movement at the national level to correct the American diet.
Also our economy is so heavily dependent on dairy and agriculture that
pulling the rug out from under them would likely sink us into a depression.
> I am curious what knowledgeable paleodiet proponents think of
> caloric restriction.
I don't know that paleodiet theorists have any consensus opinion on the
subject, but this paleodiet theorist believes caloric restriction works as
an adaptive mechanism to increase the probability of producing offspring.
Faced with apparent famine, the body shifts gears in order to live longer to
produce offspring at some time in the future when food may again be
plentiful and offspring can be reared. Evidence is strong that longevity
from CR is inversely proportional to procreation.
-gts
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