I coudn't resist to post the comment from the July 13, 2007 volume of Science. This is the #1 scientific journal in the world which openly "advertises" Cordain's claims. Why no one has looked at the coconut oil consumption of the "Papua New Guinea’s Trobriand islanders"?
The Health Benefits Of Paleocuisine
Swedish men with diabetes showed a dramatic
drop in their blood sugar after 3 months on a
“Paleolithic�?diet, according to researchers in
Sweden, who found that a diet free of grains
and dairy products worked better than the
oft-recommended “Mediterranean�?diet.
Of 29 men with heart disease and diabetic
conditions, 14 showed blood sugar returning to
normal after restricting themselves to lean meat,
fish, fruits, root vegetables, eggs, and nuts.
What’s more, their glucose tolerance improved
by 26%, as shown when glucose levels were
tested after they ate sugars. But the 15 men on
the Mediterranean diet, whose intake included
grains and dairy products, showed only a
7% improvement in glucose tolerance, according
to Lund University physician Staffan Lindeberg,
whose study was published online this month in
Diabetologia. Lindeberg says the study was
inspired when he learned in the 1990s that
Papua New Guinea’s Trobriand islanders,
who live on a “preagricultural�?diet, had no
heart disease or diabetes.
Lindeberg speculates that a Stone Age diet
may owe its success with diabetics to the absence
of “bioactive substances,�?such as the casein protein
in milk and lectin in grains, which may impair
glucose tolerance—as they do in studies of rats.
Evolutionary nutritionist Loren Cordain of
Colorado State University in Fort Collins says the
study is “significant�?because “it represents one of
the first well-controlled trials of a modern paleolike
diet to ever have been conducted.�?/FONT> |
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