And your point is? Just as many papers – if not more – have shown no correlation between meat consumption and cancer. You’ve got to look at the whole of the data pool, not just cherry pick studies to prove whatever point you’re trying to make.

MRE

“I heard somewhere, maybe NPR, that a lot of doctors were not happy with Jarvik’s endorsement of Lipitor…”

Hey, but all of us from the Milwaukee area love that Lipitor commercial with Dr. Jarvik. It was filmed at the Milwaukee Art Museum in the new addition designed by Calatrava.

Sue O.

Hi Sue–

I’m well acquainted with the Milwaukee Art Museum that has the fins (or whatever they’re called) that change as the day goes on. MD and I have spent a lot of time in Milwaukee over the past year and a half because that’s where our PBS TV show Low Carb CookwoRx is filmed.

Cheers–

MRE

“I took 2 krill oil caplets and 2 Nordic Naturals ProOmega capsules.”

What are the potencies of these pills in gm or mgm?

Thanks and loving PP.
Elaine

Hi Elaine–

2 caps of krill oil provide 150 mg EPA and 90 mg DHA; 2 caps of ProOmega provide 650 mg EPA and 450 DHA. The krill oil fats are in the phospholipid form making them much more potent than their doses would imply.

Here is the info from the label of the krill oil:

EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) 150.00mg
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) 90.00mg
Omega-6 Fatty Acids 0 20.00mg
Omega-9 Fatty Acids 0 85.00mg
Phospholipids 0 400.00mg
Astaxanthin 0 1.50mg

Hope this helps–

MRE

Hi Elaine–

Sure. I took 2 krill oil caplets and 2 Nordic Naturals ProOmega capsules.

Best–

MRE

Hi Kathy-

As I tell almost anyone who will listen, if your happy with your weight and your state of health, far be it from me to make any kind of dietary recommendation.

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Victoria–

I experience these same frustrations daily.

Best–

MRE

i’d be curious if you have wot to say about Singer ?

Sinc. and what about adding an ‘s’ betwixt the ‘a and the t’ eh ?!

Simon

Hi Simon–

Pete Singer is a man of strong beliefs. I just don’t happen to agree with any of them.

MRE

Hi Imsovain–

As we were writing the PPLP that study was in the works at Colorado State University. We had arranged for all the funding, had the experimental details worked out, and were awaiting our elk and deer collecting permits from the Colorado wildlife people. Unexpectedly, they turned us down. We argued with them for a while, then realized that we were wasting our time and moved on to more productive endeavors.

Loren Cordain has some data from other studies showing the breakdown of carcase fat in wild animals. Check out his website at http://www.thepaleodiet.com.

Best–

MRE

Hi Audley–

Michael Jacobson would indeed be on my top ten list of nutritional idiots, right there along with Jane and Dean.

It’s too bad he has such influence on the dietary mores of America.

Best–

MRE

“Hi Art,
I’ll first say that I support most of the ideas you write about on this site. That said, I had a question for you that I’ve asked myself and can’t seem to answer.
While I agree that a “paleo-style” diet is most appropriate for health and longevity, I can’t seem to answer this question:
Is it necessary?
In my efforts to answer it, the best answer I can come up with is “No”. In other words, while I agree that

low insulin levels,
regular/varied/non-excessive exercise,
good sleep,
little to no sugar or refined foods,
lots of veggies, and
effective stress coping methods

are all necessary to increase one’s chances for a long time, I don’t think that eating purely paleo is. Do you?

The simplest argument that I have for this statement is as follows: While I have not researched the topic at all, I would still be willing to bet that if you polled all the centenarians in the world today, few if any would admit to following a paleo diet, especially eating no grains. If this turns out to be true, would you agree then that, if longevity is the goal in mind, there is no reason to not eat grains (assuming one follow most, if not all, of the above recommendations)?

Your thoughts on this matter would be much appreciated.
Daniel Chong

Hi Daniel–

All the centenarians alive today are those who have adapted to whatever diet they happened to have at hand and managed to live at least 100 years on it. As I’m sure you are aware, there is a bell shaped curve for all these kinds of analyses, and, in the case of centenarians, they are the ones way out on the long right hand tail. If you take a large enough group of people and feed them for their entire lives on (insert your diet of choice here), some of them will make it to 100 years of age. Because these outliers on the long tail of the bell-shaped curve lived to be 100 on such a diet doesn’t mean that that particular diet is the best one for all people who want to live to be 100. It simply means that some people live to be 100 on it. Everyone alive today who is 100 years old lived through two world wars; does that mean that the stress caused by living through two episodes of global conflict leads to longevity? I doubt it.

What I believe (and what, I suppose, Art DeVany believes (I’ve don’t know Art DeVany;until this comment I’d never heard of him)) is that our genome developed over the last couple of million years on the diet at hand during that time, which, for the most part, consisted of meat, fish, insects, and a few roots, shoots and tubers. It makes sense (to me, at least) that if this is the diet the forces of natural selection molded us to perform optimally on, then it’s probably the best diet for a long, healthy life.

Best–

MRE