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Here's your host, Lucas Rockwood.

Hello and welcome, Lucas Rockwood here

with the Yoga Talk Show.

I have some great questions from students this week.

Tina asks, what do you think of the

paleo diet and is it healthy? So for those of you who don't know the paleo diet

is also referred to as the Paleolithic or the Caveman Diet.

It's become very, very popular in the past 10 years,

particularly, I would say in the past three or four years.

The Cross Fit community has also grown really, really quickly and all the Cross Fit people are very much into the paleo diet.

For me, of all the diet movements that have happened in the past five years the paleo diet is the smartest

and the most interesting of anything that's happened really since raw food

became really popular and so a lot of people think the paleo diet is completely opposite to what I teach.

The truth is it's very, very close.

The only difference is, you know, a lot of people I work with move away from animal foods,

and the paleo diet is very heavy on animal protein. The truth is, what I call the paleo diet is very heavy on animal protein. The truth is what I call the

paleo diet is something I've been calling reverse vegetarianism for about seven

years and reverse vegetarianism is when someone instead of giving up meat and eating dairy they give up dairy and they eat meat.

Now my vegetarian colleagues give me a lot of flack about this calling it even vegetarianism.

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