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amen Bodhi - i'm 56 and hoping the damage is not too much from all that crap - and i am happy that my 3 year old is getting the chance at real nutrition! live now & live later, learn and move on, yes?

What does the woman that discovered the genes that control aging in worms eat?

No desserts. No sweets. No potatoes. No rice. No bread. No pasta. “When I say ‘no,’ I mean ‘no, or not much,’” she notes. “Instead, eat green vegetables. Eat the fruits that aren't the sweet fruits, like melon.” Bananas? “Bananas are a little sweet.” Meat? “Meat, yes, of course. Avocados. All vegetables. Nuts. Fish. Chicken. That's what I eat. Cheese. Eggs. And one glass of red wine a day.”

Why?

“I did it because we fed our worms glucose and it shortened their lifespan.”

i also beat my self up sometimes thinking about the shit i ate in the past. but on the flip side i am so grateful i discovered this diet/lifestyle while i'm just 23 years old, while most guys my age are still pounding down bagels and beer. i wish more people could know what it feels like to be a properly functioning human being. i'm looking forward to see what happens in the long term.

thanks J for what you do...

Ah, yes. I do feel regret that I did not get off the SAD or USDA diet until 65.
(I lost about 100 pounds, basically cutting out the fructose.)

All those years of carrying extra weight, very low energy, losing jobs because I could not stay awake or drinking too much coffee and losing the job because I was driven to total exhaustion and could not continue. The runs in the afternoon for candy, more coffee, anything to keep awake. I was falling asleep in high school classes. People just don't tolerate that and don't understand that it's not intentional. Not to mention being the fat kid that gym teachers liked to torture and was always picked last for games.

They called me beer belly in Boys Scout camp, I was a fat kid when I was in grade school when it wasn't common and the food was relatively healthy. Today someone in grade school with my genotype might be 300 pounds.

And anger about the bad to the point of genocidal nutritional misinformation I got. I remember looking at the nutritional information on a package of brown rice and thinking what is so good about this stuff, must be some mystical something and continued to eat it.

I suppose those who take advice from the government and the nutritional establishment (and the major non food manufacturers deserve what they get, but the only thing you learn is not to take such advice.

Anyway, we American and those of similar diets don't have an antidepressant deficiency nor an anti tension drug deficiency, but we *do* have an animal fat deficiency.

Oh, and I just came across the idea that one reason for the Japanese being so healthy is their large consumption of sea weed and other sea foods. IIUC their consumption of iodine is about 1000 times the MDR (which most Americans don't reach). Notice that the Establishment is more concerned about people getting too much micro nutrients than to little. For example, the Vitamin D RDA level is set to the level that prevents rickets, the most spectacular and obvious sigh of Vitamin D deficiency.

OK, better stop here before I start to rant.

My favourite saying is "If it's hard you're doing it wrong.

Now to encourage and almost teen to go paleo. She was much more compliant as a toddler

J,

I come to your blog via Tom Naughton's Fat Head blog. Just wanted to say I'm enjoying myself so much as I make my way through your older posts. I consider myself falling somewhere between the "labels" of Paleo and low-carb, although the names truly don't count. My husband and I have been eating much as you describe since the beginning of this year. To date, he has lost over forty pounds and I have lost over fifty. Our aches and pains has disappeared and we are enjoying life more than we did just a few short months ago.

I just wanted to remark on something you said in this post: "I deeply regret the year I spent trying to be vegetarian, and the decades I spent not eating the delicious food I eat now because it was ‘too high in fat’." It reminded me of what has become my one great regret since discovering this way of eating. For many years I was a binge eater. I tried everything I could think of to stop binging...from sheer willpower to therapy. Nothing worked. When I came to LCHF/Paleo, I was interested in being in optimal health and shedding some weight. Both of those have happened (with the speed and amount of weight loss both surprising and thrilling me!) But the most astounding thing that I realized was that my binging had stopped. Cold turkey. No need to fight the desire...the desire just wasn't there. The thought of binging doesn't even cross my mind.

Before, I was convinced I had some psychological problem. Uh, no, I just needed REAL FOOD! I deeply regret that I was sucked into the whole USDA, FDA, food pyramid mess. Eating low-fat with grainsgrainsgrains made me a hungry MESS. Now that I have high-fat, satiating meals I'm HAPPY. I truly regret the mental anguish I endured thinking that there was something seriously WRONG with me.

I see plenty of commenters here that describe the great things that have happened with their health after eating this way, but I haven't seen anyone else mention this particular "improvement."

Just want to say you have a great blog here! I'm so thankful for people like you (and Tom!) who have completely changed my life!

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Interesting read - not on Paleo, but on why we would ever think like that!

Brilliant article as always.