Lyle McDonald on Paleo

[Neill Smith]

Lyle McDonald cites some interesting research and weighs in on Paleo here: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/res...ch-review.html

[George Mounce]

Originally Posted by Neill Smith

Lyle McDonald cites some interesting research and weighs in on Paleo here: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/res...ch-review.html

Prefer this one: http://thepaleodiet.blogspot.com/200...idence-of.html

[Steven Low]

I think that Lyle is missing the fact that 'whatever makes you feel and perform the best is probably optimal.'

If that's Paleo for most people then eat Paleo. It doesn't matter if people way back ate grains. What matters is how your individual genetics are going to affect your health through what you eat.

Basically, experiment and find out what works best.

[peace warson]

nice response from dr. cordain. and i agree with steven.

[Emily Mattes]

What Steven said. I couldn't give a crap what the Paleo man ate, I think all that business is just to hype up the diet itself and sell books. I feel at my healthiest while eating Paleo, so that's what I go for and what I advocate others to try.

[Derek Weaver]

I'm with you guys, but will add this: Lyle does tend to take a firm stance that if a certain approach has worked for you then do that approach. whether it's his own diet set ups (UD 2.0, RFL etc.) the important thing that matters is that you'll do it.

[Steven Low]

True.

I don't agree with any dogmatic approach to things and neither does Lyle. But he comes off as dogmatic about the stuff he writes most of the time as well which he obviously isn't trying to be (I hope) most of the time.

[Arien Malec]

Lyle believes, as best as I can tell, (based on what he's posted on his blogs in in his forums) that, in the presence of adequate macronutrients and micronutrients, food quality is pretty much a non-scientific notion and that the paleo critique of grains, dairy, etc., is also silly and pseudo-scientific. It's what Michael Pollen critiques as nutritientism (although Pollen also believes that anti-grain, anti-dairy types are wacky as well).

IMHO, Lyle's the go-to guy for fat loss, and in the contexts that he recommends them, eating your Fruit Loops can be sound nutritional strategy. You want abz with minimal loss of lean tissue, Lyle's the guy.

If you are looking for good, solid patterns for life long living, there are a bunch out there, some pre-industrial but post-agricultural, and some pre-agricultural, and none of them contain Fruit Loops.

[Steven Low]

Ah I see. Well, I think I'm gonna have to stick with a more Paleo-ized view. Hard to go wrong there IMO.

[Arien Malec]

Originally Posted by Steven Low

Well, I think I'm gonna have to stick with a more Paleo-ized view. Hard to go wrong there IMO.

That's the key bit, IMHO. The science isn't settled here, but Paleo gives you some pretty firm guardrails that make it really hard to screw up.