Fad diet make me very skeptical are that just that fads or do they have something to them I will talking about the paleo diet in this paper and explain if the paleo diet is a fad or as some legitimacy behind it.
The Paleolithic diet, or the Paleo diet, is a diet plan that consists of foods that would be available to paleolithic humans. Since this diet encompases the diet of early man it excludes modern processed foods and follows only what human ate during the Neolithic Revolution, the time period in which human became more agricultural than hunters and gatherers, this means the removal of processed oils, salt, alcohol, and coffee. The idea of the diet was behind a man call Walter Voegtlin, a man who would be made famous by the best-selling author Loren Cordain. Walter Voegtlin sparked the idea of the paleolithic diet back in a book of his in 1975 and was only further developed by Stanley Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner in 1985. However Voegtlin`s motive of this …show more content…
Ever ads of theirs shows the model and the measuring tape and some sort of all natural organic food being eaten by seid model. Which goes against Voegtlin's personal responsibility goal. If Voegtlin's diet becomes mainstream doesn't lose some of what it was originally supposed to mean. Nonetheless this diet follows all the cliches of diet marketing, and their claim revolve around the removal of food items and how you will feel better after their removal. The obvious one is that it is a nutritionally viable diet. But is it? According to an article on Prevention.com it says that the paleo diet operates under false pretences. Explaining that the only reason why grains were not apart of paleolithic human diet was that they were not evolved. Now humans digestive systems have evolved and we obviously now eat grains without issues. If their was any con to this diet it would be that it did not consider human
The Paleolithic diet, or the Paleo diet, is a diet plan that consists of foods that would be available to paleolithic humans. Since this diet encompases the diet of early man it excludes modern processed foods and follows only what human ate during the Neolithic Revolution, the time period in which human became more agricultural than hunters and gatherers, this means the removal of processed oils, salt, alcohol, and coffee. The idea of the diet was behind a man call Walter Voegtlin, a man who would be made famous by the best-selling author Loren Cordain. Walter Voegtlin sparked the idea of the paleolithic diet back in a book of his in 1975 and was only further developed by Stanley Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner in 1985. However Voegtlin`s motive of this …show more content…
Ever ads of theirs shows the model and the measuring tape and some sort of all natural organic food being eaten by seid model. Which goes against Voegtlin's personal responsibility goal. If Voegtlin's diet becomes mainstream doesn't lose some of what it was originally supposed to mean. Nonetheless this diet follows all the cliches of diet marketing, and their claim revolve around the removal of food items and how you will feel better after their removal. The obvious one is that it is a nutritionally viable diet. But is it? According to an article on Prevention.com it says that the paleo diet operates under false pretences. Explaining that the only reason why grains were not apart of paleolithic human diet was that they were not evolved. Now humans digestive systems have evolved and we obviously now eat grains without issues. If their was any con to this diet it would be that it did not consider human