See, it IS incredibly irritating. And stupid. And I have encountered those people! Those are the people the satire is mocking, and NOT the sincerely healthy & rational people who relate to the types of foods eaten in Paleo.
I've also eaten a low-glycemic index diet, carefully monitoring my blood glucose 4x a day. I've spent a week experimenting with recipes to make a birthday cake that is gluten free/dairy free for a friend. I've done careful eliminations & BRATY at different times for tummy troubles. I stock the freezer with local, CSA pork & fish. I worship the heck out of Joel Salatin/Michael Pollan.
But yeah, I admit it, the name BUGS me. There's cavemen on the "official" Paleo website, and a smattering of machismo and tribal appropriation that goes along with it. The dismissal of 10,000 years of agriculture and agricultural history bugs me. The often mentioned premise that we're not evolved to process the products of agriculture is inherently and blatantly false. We don't need to go back 10,000 years to rediscover a healthy lifestyle. We only need to go back 100. Why are we not all on the Steampunk Diet? (Because that would be AWESOME.)
I've also eaten a low-glycemic index diet, carefully monitoring my blood glucose 4x a day. I've spent a week experimenting with recipes to make a birthday cake that is gluten free/dairy free for a friend. I've done careful eliminations & BRATY at different times for tummy troubles. I stock the freezer with local, CSA pork & fish. I worship the heck out of Joel Salatin/Michael Pollan.
But yeah, I admit it, the name BUGS me. There's cavemen on the "official" Paleo website, and a smattering of machismo and tribal appropriation that goes along with it. The dismissal of 10,000 years of agriculture and agricultural history bugs me. The often mentioned premise that we're not evolved to process the products of agriculture is inherently and blatantly false. We don't need to go back 10,000 years to rediscover a healthy lifestyle. We only need to go back 100. Why are we not all on the Steampunk Diet? (Because that would be AWESOME.)
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