(I kind of think people should eat whatever they want and people who don't want to eat that way should mind their own damn business. If the Paleo diet makes you happy, go for it. If living off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches makes you happy, eat that instead. Nobody with enough privilege to choose a diet that has a name is going to die of malnutrition.)

Agreed theoretically except for the huge health costs related to unhealthy eating of all stripes that we all pay for.

Agreed theoretically except for the huge health costs related to unhealthy eating of all stripes that we all pay for

I think due diligence extends as far as education and availability, and after that, it's like any other health risk consenting adults take upon themselves--our lot as a nation.

Tumblr just managed to bum me the fuck out (flippantly speaking). They definitely aren't the sort of stuff that's appropriate for goodstuff, although the news in each of them is eventually good--it's just the need is bad:

• Basically the pink sari junta
• A personal story of surviving reproductive coercion--following the links in that entry gets you to some stats I wasn't aware of.

In totally other topics, I wonder if Order and Chaos Muppets would map to Scully and Mulder.

She was miserable and tired and sick. It wasn't just "eating less and losing some weight", it was eating in this particular way that helped her.

I imagine the Crossfit helped a great deal as well. There's lots of evidence that healthy habits help the people engaged in them become healthier.

There is a lot of disagreement among the Paleo crowd about what exactly our H/G ancestors would or would not have eaten ...

My impression has always been that our H/G ancestors would eat pretty much anything that didn't eat them first.

My impression has always been that our H/G ancestors would eat pretty much anything that didn't eat them first.

That's why I'm eating an assload of saltwater taffy today (I brought it back from the beach for my co-workers) -- to save my co-workers from certain sticky death.

Because I'm a giver.

How different we really are, physiologically, from our recent and our distant ancestors, is still a matter of huge debate. There have certainly been some adaptations, like the ability to digest milk and the ability to tolerate grains. Some folks insist that the best, healthiest diet is the diet your own ancestors ate - like, if you're Polynesian, you should be eating coconut and fish, and if you're Asian, you should be eating fish and seaweed and rice, and if you're European you should be eating, I dunno, turnips and borscht.

I don't know where that leaves me. My family migrated too much. I can trace them back to Poland, but my dad did DNA tests that showed we're related to a family from Spain, and the Spanish Jews might have been in Italy first, but in the Middle East before that, and it just gets ridiculous.

this diet coke was clearly about to attck me, so I saved myself. and that thai food earlier, it was plotting.

I a trying not to be a grump today, but AM SUCH A GRUMP. omg I am sick of me.

I was really happy in general for many hours in a row yesterday. today? nsm.

There's plenty of evidence that humans became less healthy with the advent of agriculture, but I don't think you can simplify it that much. Agriculture and civilization go hand in hand; and civilization frequently means the development of classes. The lower class would get the cheapest food, which would be the corn or potatoes grown in mass quantities.

There's certainly evidence that humans ate grains before agriculture. To begin with, why the hell would they go to a lot of trouble to grow better versions of something they didn't eat? Also, there are historical hunter-gatherers that harvested and stored large amounts of grains.

They could have had a fairly steady supply of fruit through the warm months, if they traveled in a circuit based on when different things ripen.