Paleo Diet getting mainstream coverage

[Psalehesost]

It's catching on...

...except that - not so surprisingly - they still just don't get it regarding fat. And carbs and fiber. So it's still two big steps short of the paleo diet here arrived at.

 

[mada85]

And while articles are being published that get closer to the truth of the matter, not to mention authoritative books on the subject (e.g. Primal Body, Primal Mind) it appears that the PTB are going into major damage control mode. The following article appeared in the UK Daily Mail a couple of days ago. I'm posting the full text here because it's just so obviously a propaganda piece.

We should only eat meat on feast days to help tackle obesity, says government food adviser

We should return to ancient traditions and only eat meat on feast days to help tackle obesity, a government food adviser has claimed.

Our meat consumption is ‘out of control’, according to Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, London. [Professor Lang is a food policy adviser to the UK Government.]

He suggested we should re-adopt the tradition of regarding meat as a treat and only eating it on feast days, such as Christmas.

Dramatically reducing our intake of meat would also help prevent climate change, he said.

'Let's go back to where culture has been for thousands of years, which is meat is an exception,' Prof Lang told The Telegraph.

'If you were growing meat yourself, it is an incredibly slow process and killing and eating an animal is a special day.

'At Christmas if we were well off we had beef. It was a big deal. We killed an animal as an exception, for a feast.'

He said he was not suggesting we only have meat once or twice a year, but no more than once a week.

In medieval times, there were a large number of feast days to celebrate saints or recognise the changing of the seasons.

Prof Lang, who advises the World Health Organisation, as well as the Department for Environment, on food policy, said eating too much meat can lead to serious health issues such as obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Last year, Sir Liam Donaldson, then Chief Medical Officer for England, said reducing meat consumption by 30 per cent would prevent 18,000 premature deaths a year.

The process of producing meat is harmful for the environment because of the energy and water used to grow animals, and cows produce the greenhouse gas methane.

Sir Paul McCartney has advocated Meat-Free Mondays, but Prof Lang said: 'I am saying instead of having one day where you do not eat meat, eat meat once a week and have really good, grass-fed meat.'

_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080256/We-eat-meat-feast-days-help-tackle-obesity-says-Government-food-adviser.html

 

[SeekinTruth]

What a bunch of BS, in that article, Endymion! And I agree that "lean meats" and lots of fruits and vegetables misses the mark of the high animal fat/low carb diet. SO many things are being called "paleo" these days. A REAL paleo diet is what we ate during the last ice age.

 

[mada85]

What a bunch of BS, in that article, Endymion!

There is indeed – and it's unadulterated too! I had such a weird sense of disconnection when I read it. I couldn't believe that someone - a so-called expert - could come out and say things that are so demonstrably false, and get it published too. And this guy is an advisor to the WHO and the UK government.

Sir Paul McCartney has advocated Meat-Free Mondays,

McCartney's wife, Linda, was a vegetarian who died from breast cancer at the fairly young age of 56.

 

[Harold]

It's catching on...

...except that - not so surprisingly - they still just don't get it regarding fat. And carbs and fiber. So it's still two big steps short of the paleo diet here arrived at.

yup... true... ya gotta start somewhere... this forum has come along way from munching cookie's at the ouija board. So I have hope for others too.

 

[whitecoast]

Recently my parents actually heard about the paleo diet on this political radio channel my dad's always plugged into. The only part they repeated to me was that the person said that, "it's a lifestyle, not just a diet". I'm unsure how much of the saturated fat and carb disinformation they dissected, but it was certainly a start. Like many people have said before, paleo is becoming popular enough to be targeted more by evil interests. Even friends and some family have even started to get onboard with it :) Now it just comes down to educating others more.

 

[Laura]

Sir Paul McCartney has advocated Meat-Free Mondays,

McCartney's wife, Linda, was a vegetarian who died from breast cancer at the fairly young age of 56.

I guess he doesn't have enough firing neurons to put 2 + 2 together on that one!

 

[Nienna]

Sir Paul McCartney has advocated Meat-Free Mondays,

McCartney's wife, Linda, was a vegetarian who died from breast cancer at the fairly young age of 56.

I guess he doesn't have enough firing neurons to put 2 + 2 together on that one!

Yeah. Well, if he eats mostly fruits/veggies.....