From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 13:34:38 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> Mike, you may have missed the way that Brian and gts "reinterpreted" the
> studies to say the opposite of what the original authors said. The original
> studies advocated a lot of grains in the diet. Brian and gts dismissed the
> parts of the study they didn't like, but kept the parts they did like, and
> then reinterpreted the results to enforce rather deny the Paleo diet. They
> then claimed the study reinforced their anti-grain diet. This totally
> contradicts the report's conclusion that "New evidences supports the theory
> that a high-fiber diet, including grains, cereals and fruits substantially
> lowers the risk of colon cancer." There is nothing in this study that
> supports the Paleo Diet. It specifically studied a high-grain non-Paleo
> diet.
Harvey, which study are you referring to? There were two, and I directly
reported the key findings of the European one, which as far as I can
tell did not as you claim specifically study high grain diets only. This
is not the only example recently of you misreading, for whatever reason,
what either I write or what a URL wrote.
Go read the key findings page again:
http://www.ism.uit.no/kk/e/key_findings.htm
The first key finding is specifically regarding fruits and vegetables.
Now perhaps they simply left out grains by accident. Who knows. What
matters is that their key findings mesh perfectly with the paleo diet.
Or to put it another way: if you eat what the paleo diet says to eat,
you are doing all three things this study says will reduce your cancer
risks. Do you want to dispute that? If not, why don't you retract your
claim that this study does not support the paleo diet. Who exactly is
doing the misrepresenting here? It seems like both you and Bill K. read
the first sentence of the BH story without looking carefully at BOTH
studies, and instantly jumped to your own conclusions.
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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