Cordain's Paleo Diet seen through Sally Fallon's eyes:
Review by Sally Fallon
Peter Paleolith goes ahunting and catches himself a plump prairie hen. Using 
tools of stone and bone, he removes the entrails and throws them away. Then 
he plucks off the feathers and peels off the skin—he’d like to eat the 
succulent fat underneath but he learned during his rites of passage that the 
fat is taboo. Next he cuts off the dark meat and discards that too. Deftly he 
separates the white meat from the bone. The bones go in the trash heap and 
Peter Paleolith is left with. . . skinless chicken breasts!
Then Peter prepares his meal. Because salt didn’t exist in those days, he 
bathes his chicken breasts in lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. He greases 
his Paleolithic pot with canola oil, the kind his elders recommend. He 
seasons his meal with ground black pepper or perhaps chili powder which he 
always carries with him in a leather pouch. And, because he doesn’t have any 
sugar, he washes down his Paleolithic meal with. . . a diet soda! 
If this sounds absurd, it’s because absurd things happen when a professor of 
exercise tries to write a diet book that captures the current interest in the 
so-called caveman diet and adheres to political correctness at the same time. 
This book is as pc as pc can be—and totally ignorant of what we know about 
hunter-gatherer diets. Everyone who has described the diets of primitive 
peoples—Stefansson, Samuel Hearne, Cabeza de Vaca, Weston Price—has detailed 
the great emphasis these groups put on animal fat. Animal foods rich in fat 
were the basis of these diets. Animals were hunted selectively to procure 
those richest in fat. In good times, only the fattest parts were eaten, the 
lean meat was thrown away. In fact, the one thing Paleolithic Peter would 
never have eaten was a skinless chicken breast. He wanted the fat, the 
entrails, the bones, the contents of the stomach. . . the lean meat went to 
his dogs. ...... rest of article at:
http://www.westonaprice.org/book_reviews/paleodiet.html
First published in Wise Traditions, the quarterly journal of 
The Weston A. Price Foundation, Volume 3, Number One, Spring 2002. 




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