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Is the Paleo Diet supported by scientific research? Part 2.

Last week, I countered claims that paleo's got no science, with summaries of five recent and not so recent papers supporting the paleo or primal approach to diet. The reception to that post was strong enough

that I got requests to cover a few more this week. So today I'm going to explain the findings

of five more relevant studies.

Not all of the studies come from the original list, but each gives an accurate and important

portrayal of the effects of eating in accordance with one's biology.

More importantly, these are all interesting approaches to the diet, with some examining higher carb paleo,

some looking at higher fat and downright ketogenic paleo diets, and still others trying

to disentangle the beneficial effects of the weight loss that normally occurs on the

paleo diet from the effect of going paleo.

Now, let's dig right in.

The first study is called favorable effects of consuming a paleolithic type diet

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