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The paleo diet bites the dust as new evidence is unearthed [View all]
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11513922[font size=8]Paleo enthusiasts, you've got it all wrong[/font]
11:29 AM Wednesday Sep 16, 2015
Ancient people likely ate more grains than researchers previously thought. Photo / iStock
The orthodoxy of the Paleo diet has been challenged by the most unlikely of contenders: the humble oat.
Paleo dieters shun most grains and carbohydrates on the premise that our Palaeolithic ancestors did not eat them and were healthier for it, but a new archealogical discovery suggests oatmeal was actually part of ancient diets.
Analysis of a stone pestle by an Italian research team found it was dusted with the starch of wild oat plants, Men's Fitness reported.
11:29 AM Wednesday Sep 16, 2015
Ancient people likely ate more grains than researchers previously thought. Photo / iStock
The orthodoxy of the Paleo diet has been challenged by the most unlikely of contenders: the humble oat.
Paleo dieters shun most grains and carbohydrates on the premise that our Palaeolithic ancestors did not eat them and were healthier for it, but a new archealogical discovery suggests oatmeal was actually part of ancient diets.
Analysis of a stone pestle by an Italian research team found it was dusted with the starch of wild oat plants, Men's Fitness reported.
More at the link, and another feather in the cap of Dr. McDougall's Starch-Based Diet
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