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Paleolithic Nutrition: Twenty-Five Years Later.

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Dr. Gary Pack

The “evolutionary discordance hypothesis” was proposed 25 years ago as the connection between diet and “diseases of civilization.” The title of the article was “Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications,” by the same authors. The above theory says that diets have changed greatly since the days of our hunter-gatherer ancestors 10,000 […]

Paleolithic Diet Versus the Western Diet.

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Dr. Gary Pack

Environmental changes, including diet and lifestyle, which took place 10,000 years ago have been too recent for the human genome to make a proper adjustment. As a result “diseases of civilization” have emerged. The types of foods and food processing developed in the recent Neolithic and Industrial Periods have changed the following elements of our […]

Conditions: "Diseases of Civilization", Acid-base balance, Aging, Asthma, Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Coronary heart disease, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, Hypertension, Insulin resistance, Kidney stones, Metabolic acidosis, Metabolic syndrome, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Renal (kidney) disease

Supplements: Calcium, Fiber, Magnesium, Omega-3 fatty (linolenic) acid, Omega-6 fatty (linoleic) acid, Vitamin A, Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), Zinc

Foods: Alcohol, Almonds, Beer, Cereals, Cottonseed oil, Dairy, Fermented foods, Flax seed, Fructose, Glucose, Grains, High fructose corn syrup, Margarine, Monounsaturated fatty acid, Olives, Polyunsaturated oil, Salt, Sesame seeds, Sucrose, Sugars, Trans fats, Vegetable oils, Walnuts, Wild animals, Wild plants, Wine

Miscellaneous: Diet, Evolutionary discordance, Genome, Hunter-gatherer diet, Lifestyle, Na/K, Neolithic diet, Nutrients, Paleolithic diet

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