Paleolithic Diets

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we go back in time to look at the diet of Paleolithic man and discover what there is to recommend in today’s Paleo fad diets.
This episode features audio from The Problem With the Paleo Diet Argument, Paleo Diet Studies Show Benefits, and Paleolithic Lessons.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Nutrition Facts.
0:03.4	The podcast that brings you the latest
0:05.4	and evidence-based nutrition research.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.
0:11.3	I know that facts have been in the news a lot lately,
0:14.8	both real and fake.
0:17.9	The concept of alternative facts is nothing new
0:21.6	in the field of nutrition, though,
0:23.3	where powerful commercial interests have tried to not only
0:26.1	keep people in the dark, but actively try to confuse them.
0:31.5	That's why I stick to the science.
0:34.8	What's the best available balance of evidence
0:36.7	published in the peer-reviewed medical journals right now?
0:39.9	That's why I wrote my New York Times best-selling book,
0:42.8	How Not to Die, and why I created my nonprofit site
0:46.1	NutritionFacts.org, and now this podcast.
0:51.5	Today we go back in time, way back in time, to the Paleolithic.
0:59.2	The Paleolithic period represents just the last two million
1:02.6	years of human evolution, though.
1:04.6	What did our bodies evolve to eat during the first 90%
1:08.6	of our time on Earth before that?
1:11.9	Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal
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