Benefits of The Paleo Diet
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Typical western foods are low in minerals, vitamins and soluble fibre but high in fat and salt.
There is much evidence indicating that some of these dietary factors are important causes of common western disorders like heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
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posted by Scott at
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Yes, there is evidence indicating that some of these dietary factors are important causes of common western disorder. But let's be careful indicting fat.
It has never been proven that high intakes of saturated fat and cholesterol are detrimental to our health. The American Heart Association bases their "low-fat" prescription off of five studies:
(1) The first one was Ancel Keys study done in the 70's that generated "The Lipid Hypothesis" which argues that eating saturated fat and cholesterol give you high cholesterol, and high cholesterol gives you heart disease... totally bogus, and debunked numerous times. The debunking is best explained in Gary Taubes's "Good Calories, Bad Calories." [Basically he had data from 21 more countries but he cherry picked the seven countries that showed what he wanted to show.]
(2) The Los Angeles VA Hospital Study (1969): Researchers didn't collect data regarding smoking habits for some men, and stated later that half the participants strayed from the prescribed diet.
(3) The Oslo Diet-Heart Study (1970); basically proved nothing regarding deaths from heart disease and a low fat diet.
(4) The Finnish Mental Hospital Study (1979): almost half of the participants either left or joined half way through the 12 year study.
(5) The St. Thomas' Atherosclerosis Regression Study (1992): 74 men showed a reduction in heart disease by those who ate diets low in saturated fat... but they were also required to eat less sugar. Since the message needed to be "saturated fat bad" that little detail is often left out.
Let me sum it up: Cholesterol doesn’t lead to heart problems. Cholesterol is absolutely essential to good health. A major factor is the small dense LDL particles that cause problems.
For a more complete definition of the diet see Paleo diet explained.
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