http://www.arthurdevany.com/webstuff/RevisedEssay.pdf

This is a good essay by Art DeVany; it deals with paleo nutrition and fitness.

We are hunter/gatherers in pin-stripe suits, living a sedentary life and it is killing us in ways our ancestors never experienced. Virtually all the degenerative diseases–atherosclerosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, declining muscle mass–of modern civilization are unheard of among hunter-gatherers and were not part of our ancestral experience. Most modern fitness prescriptions are static and agricultural. These programs model the body as a machine, not as an adaptive organism.

I think some of this is dependents. In societies that ate a high fat diet of salmon along the entire Pacific Coast of North and South America and some areas of the Northeastern American Coast, people were quite health because this food source was available for much of the year. Other hunters/gatherers experienced feast/famine cycles and traveled widely in search of food. People did eat in cycles during the year when fruits and vegetation were ripe, for example and they ate according to natural animal cycles, as well. I believe fruit is not a natural food source for most of the year excepting in tropical areas, and even then a lot of fruit is a dubious source of nutrients.

In general, I do believe we have not changed our bio-chemistry and so we require a high fat diet just as our ancestors did. Research supports this view for optimum health.

Hello,

I have viewed the Paleo.com site and have the book which I have began reading, the one thing I have started questioning is the weight lose aspect of it. On the forum site you do not see a lot of people losing weight they have struggled for several, several weeks just to lose a few pounds. Can you tell me your experience and a sample of what you are eating? This will help me a bunch.