ABC Radio National

The Body Sphere





Date/Time 28 Dec 2014 3:21:59pm
Dammit, defenders of the paleo way are so predictable. Fact is, Zuk acknowledges many of the positive aspects of choosing to live in a manner which is basically good for us, which paleo enthusiasts do a lot of.

If anything, I think what Zuk objects to is the way some people adopt a paleo lifestyle and justify it with "scientific" explanations which are simply inaccurate... as though adopting paleo turns you into a geneticist.

The paleo diet points to a number of foods which aren't exactly friendly to the human digestive system and recommends that we avoid them, and that's fair enough. But to explain the diet by assuming that our genes are the same as those of our stone age ancestors - and to apparently ignore concepts like gene expression - is misguided.
