Comments on: Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:14:35 +0000

It’s refreshing to encounter an MD interested in nutrition! Thanks for doing this work!
While I agree that a diet based on starch is generally not the best nutrition for human beings, there are other factors in this particular study…
One of the factors not considered in this study is the correlation between blood type and ability to utilize various forms of proteins.
Another factor not considered is that the corn/bean/squash diet traveled into the Ohio valley up the Mississippi from the coast of Mexico, where the Spanish were present during the years in question. This means that they may also have been influenced by other less-healthy factors, and that the shift may have had nothing to do with the availability of meat but the imposition of new norms on the community.
A third factor not considered is the possibility that the soil the plants were grown in wasn’t healthy and so the plants were not fully nutritive.

All of which is not to negate the value of the study but to place it in a larger context.

Again, thanks for doing this work!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:05:33 +0000

In ref to Cousins. His Anatomy of an Illness describes in detail how he overcame an “undiagnosable and untreatable” condition by significantly increasing his vitamin C, rest, and laughter, among other things. He also quit a primarily processed food diet and began eating fresh foods, which by definition included raw.

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By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:24:54 +0000

Re the question on what to feed weaning babies – have a look at the Baby Led Weaning movement. At six months old a baby can hold and gnaw on a piece of meat and get valuable nutrients from the meat juices – amazing to see if you have only seen babies being given purees in the past.

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By: mreades

mreades — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:06:49 +0000

It depends, I suppose, on how you define a Paleo diet. On the low-carb version that I put my patients on seems to significantly improve periodontal health. At least I’ve had many, many patients tell me that their dentists told them their gums were much better than before starting the diet. If one goes on a Paleo diet with a lot of sticky starch, I don’t know whether it would help or not, but I doubt it.

By: M

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:30:34 +0000

Awesome post. I had missed this one.

By: John Ball

John Ball — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:29:33 +0000

I’ve had a lot of patients follow the paleo diet and haven’t seen any particular increase in dental health because of it. Is this common in your experience?

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