Sometimes I think Paleo is full of crazies ... page

[Lewis]

I like the movement, but goodness there's some oddball stuff out there. The basic Paleo template is spot-on, but no-one can really pretend that it's only the vegans who are a bit ... err ... off-the-wall.

Here's an example.

I heard Robb Wolf say, in the middle of a sprawling formless monologue, on his latest podcast that weight-gain is caused by salting your food -- apparently, on the grounds that Stephan Guynet said so, and that he once knew a fat guy who ate a lot of salted peanuts. Even the co-host seemed taken aback.

And yet Robb is often fairly sensible.

Maybe I need to thin out my iTunes subscriptions again ...

Anyone else got any recent craziness from the movement?

[Gilleh]

Pretty sure he was makin a gag.

[Grumpycakes]

Everyone who has been investigating paleo for over a month is suddenly a molecular biologist.

[Forgotmylastusername]

I think some people take the whole thing a bit far beyond what it should be, a good way to eat. And people seem to have an overly unrealistic romantic notions of what life was actually like in the paleolithic period. The truth is we don't really know exactly what grok done, ate or how he lived, but I'm sure it wasn't as pretty as people here tend to visualize. It's important to keep an open mind and not pretend we have all the answers because nutritional science is such a diverse area open to so many different interpretations, you're not going to find all the answers by spending a few years reading blogs and studies.

[meateater]

He was talking about the food reward/hyperpalatability concept. Those theories are not something Robb or Stephan pulled out of thin air, there has been a lot of research done in that area over many years. Stephan has blogged about that quite a bit over the past years if you want to check it out. It does make sense as a factor for the obesity epidemic as an explanation of why people binge on processed food.

Woah, first post after lurking for quite some time

[Bess58]

I think that any movement that is not mainstream attracts its fair share of neurotics and attention-seekers ...

[patrickh]

What meateater said.

He wasn't saying that salt made you fat, but that salty foods encourage you to eat more due to their hyperpalatability.

[labmonkey]

He was talking about the food reward/hyperpalatability concept. Those theories are not something Robb or Stephan pulled out of thin air, there has been a lot of research done in that area over many years. Stephan has blogged about that quite a bit over the past years if you want to check it out. It does make sense as a factor for the obesity epidemic as an explanation of why people binge on processed food.

Woah, first post after lurking for quite some time

Thanks for the clear up. I was a little "Whaaaa" when I read Lewis' comment. I really like Robb Wolf. Smart guy

[cori93437]

Everyone who has been investigating paleo for over a month is suddenly a molecular biologist.

I much prefer molecular gastronomy.

[ATTAACK]

Lots of people go a little overboard. I like the PB and all, but when I see threads on how to take a dump primally, then I roll my eyes...