Jeb Bush is on the paleo diet. Nothing wrong with that. Except other than that it does not seem to have much scientific basis.
To be honest, I thought about avoiding this link. I thought that I had ruined a friendship by questioning the admissions policies of my old high school. Why risk that again? But I am now told that the friendship ended for other reasons. So go ahead, click the link! It goes to Scientific American. It is a fine and elegant piece of debunkation.
What was in that metal glass, anyway?
Agriculture is 10k to 13k years old. We've evolved since and adapted. This is also rather known.
We are not the pre Neolithic paleo people we were.
The old idea intelligent species stop evolving has been thoroughly debunked.
Posted by: Will Baird | April 27, 2015 at 09:24 PM
Awesome was in that metal becher. Pure. Awesome.
(He has seven cups. Two non-spill sippies for bedtime, two Thomas The Tank Engine plastic beakers that were injection molded in the United States of America, two clear plastic beakers which he has been preferring to take with his meals lately, AND THE FRIDAY NIGHT METAL BEAKER OF AWESOME. Awesome being grape juice, all he cares to drink. Because water and milk are fine beverages, but we have mastered the plow and the press, dammit, and when the time comes, he will be moderately immoderate, and able to judiciously tipple with the best and avoid barfing with the worst.)
(Don't get Leah started on the paleo-diet.)
Posted by: NYCMT | April 28, 2015 at 02:05 PM
No ice cream in the paleo diet, because nobody had the lactase gene yet. So, forget that.
That table, those pizza boxes: pleasant memories!
Doug M.
Posted by: Doug Muir | April 29, 2015 at 03:55 AM
Eh, the paleo diet means lots of vegetables and no sugar. Pseudoanthropology aside, it's probably an improvement over the typical Western diet.
Posted by: Gareth Wilson | April 30, 2015 at 05:30 AM
Gareth: probably. But there are simpler ways to obtain the result, without the pompous pseudoscience. Plus, my understanding (from Jeb Bush's own comments) is that his diet is working because he's hungry all the time. That does not seem sustainable.
NYCMT: "The Friday Night Metal Beaker of Awesome" should be trademarked.
Doug: Those were good memories! Come back again! Bring the family!
Posted by: Noel Maurer | May 01, 2015 at 02:07 AM