Wow, the things you could find on the palaeo savanna, what?
Article about, essentially, Beyond the Palaeo Diet to the full-on Palaeo lifestyle -
I'm over here, fair lying on the ground and holding my stomach almost retching with laughter at the following: she used to be the sort of beauty obsessive who would slap on makeup to take out the trash, in part because of her sheepishness over her acne. But when the primal path inspired her to rid her bathroom of any product containing creepy-sounding chemicals, she adopted a zero-tolerance policy to any store-bought beauty product or cleanser - even soap. As she proudly related on her blog, [she], now makes her own beauty products, including a “no-poo” shampoo method (baking soda and apple cider vinegar, with a few drops of jojoba oil for the tips as a leave-in conditioner), body scrub made from olive oil and brown sugar, and toothpaste made with coconut oil and baking soda, with activated charcoal tablets for whitening. Although houseguests are shocked to find not so much as a canister of Ajax in her house - her horrified father-in-law recently raced out to the drugstore to buy toilet cleaner, instead of her white vinegar solution - she feels transformed.
I am all 'is she going foraging in the hedgerows for soda bicarb, that completely not-chemical item?'. Has she gathered and processed the olives and the coconuts herself after gleaning them from the trees?
Brown sugar??!!! (If you're not supposed to eat this because it's Not Palaeo, is it okay to use it for body scrub? enquiring minds...)
Can we calculate the airmiles necessary to live the Palaeo Dream?
Also suspect that living in the Canaries rather than working at Harrods may have something to do with entire feel so much better scenario. (Wot, me, cynical?)
We also wonder whether actual palaeo infants were engaging in 'unstructured play' (Maria Montessori on the primeval savanna?) to expected to make their contributions to hunting and gathering as soon as they could walk? This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2156616.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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