Paleo Whip of the Year + Ironic Juxtaposition
Indeed. Laf. Stupid worthy, too.
Via PrimalPalate.com
In other news, Paleo has been crushing other diet trends over the past few years according to Google Trends, a measure of interest using terms people search for. South Beach, Master Cleanse, Mediterranean, Atkins, Raw Food, Gluten Free, Skinny Bitch, and even Low Fat. Click the link to see the graphs.
It’s still The Cupcake Diet’s bitch, though.
OK, my dot-connecting ironic juxtaposition is done for the day, and the clock only just struck 8 am.
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That has cracked me up since I started this journey 2 years ago. I always call things like those brownies Technically Paleo Compliant Treats because they aren’t really Paleo, they just meet the minimum requirements. I feel that the whole trend toward healthier eating with the “Paleo” brand is going to come to a crawl as more and more Paleo Cookbook makers recreate the same foods that made them sick in the first place with “healthy” ingredients.
Don’t get me wrong, I whip up some pretty interesting concoctions that don’t make me feel immediately sick using what I’ve learned from Paleo, but those are safe cheats to me, not everyday items. I’ve had to steer many newcomer friends away from these cheats when they expect to eat them every day and have similar health improvement results to me.
Thank you for this! I am worried that Paleo is going the way of the “gluten free” movement: making junk food out of technically Paleo ingredients. I mean, are we really solving our health problems by making brownies with coconut flour and honey? I seems to me that all these dessert and mock junk food recipes show that most of us still have the exact same food issues that we had before eating Paleo. I seriously think Paleo people would be better off having occasional cheats of conventional brownies than making this stuff.
Hmmmm,
Had the Brownie been labelled as Herbal and the potatoes been carefully selected so that they were neither scabby nor spade damaged, the Paleo label would be reversed.
Spin-Doctoring & Marketing. J’s wept, & the Cock crowed thrice – but ‘twould be unAmerican otherwise.
Sláinte
“I mean, are we really solving our health problems by making brownies with coconut flour and honey?”
Good question. I think the real issue is food combining.
The Hadza eat anywhere between 5-16% total calories in honey, with a drop off at the end of the dry and an increase at the end of the wet (obviously). Since a lot of modern humanity’s genetic code was, likely, residing in the Hadza foraging range not that long ago — in evolutionary terms, I think safe to say it is very healthy for you, and likely for reasons we don’t fully understand, particularly with regard to honey’s bacterial activity.
A key issue, however, is the Hadza don’t make cupcakes, and they don’t do food combining very well at all (silly HG’s that they are).
For example, they will often eat honey standalone, but also closely proceeded or followed by large amounts of rs and large amounts of high nutrient, glucose regulating fruit (like the baobab). Then they might eat some baboon eyes and brains later that night.
“Then they might eat some baboon eyes and brains later that night.”
That’s dessert. Just like the fatty paw pads.
here’s an interesting paper summarizing how honey:
-kills “bad” guys (Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella typhimurium, Shigella sp., Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio cholera and Helicobacter pylori)
-but also how it may enhance “good” guys, including bifido (honey was not inhibitory to S. thermophilus, L. delbrueckii subsp bulgaricus, L. acidophilus,or B. bifidum)
lib3.dss.go.th/fulltext/Journal/Journal%20of%20food%20science/2001%20v.66/no.3/jfsv66n3p0478-0481ms2…
Another general comment, I was digging into the types of tubers eaten by the Hadza, and a lot of them are actually legume tubers (ie, vignas) ( eg Vigna sp. (Papilionoidea Leguminosae).
So, not only are tubers, honey, fruit and legumes part of the Hadza diet, they are significant daily staples.
But, also, obviously, not “paleo approved”.
LOL. Reminds me of the time Jimmy Moore went “Paleo” and one of the first primal meals he shared with his readers was “Luscious Lemon Squares”. Oh, and Paleo didn’t work for him. The mystery of it all…