The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Dietary Trends is conventional thinking inching toward ancestral wisdom?

As the calendar draws toward the close of yet another year, I'm inclined to take stock of where the primal vision stands.

Are people slowly warming to the idea of primal eating and living?

Or are we merely seeing small, inconsequential, lateral shifts within the same old confines

of conventional, grain-based, saturated, fat-averse, dietary wisdom?

All right, all right, it's fair to say that without examining the numbers, the majority of

people are still stuck in their same detrimental ways.

But are the cracks in CW, I noted a few years ago, deepening and expanding?

If we look closely enough, could there be a bit of whole-food common sense shining in there?

Or is it just some refracted marketing gloss that catches the right angle from time to time?

Or just wishful starry-eyed delusion?

All good questions with their own claim on truth.

Still, are there any substantive takeaways from 2016,

and how are things shaping up for the next year at that?

Let's take a brief look.

2016 in review.

Where did GrockC fit in?

Last month, Google released its report on 2016 food trends.

With its window into public curiosity, it gives us a refreshing take on how the Internet-connected

world views food, highlighting consumer preferences rather than dietitian dictates. And while I'm always a little

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