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> It is certainly possible to combine the paleo and CAD approaches, and in
> fact I find that this is the combination that works best for me.
> Plus, doing this seems to minimize the need for gluconeogenesis, which in
> turn should help to keep the cortisol level down. Being up late at night
> is already a cortisol trigger, but we have to live our lives.
Thanks, Todd.
After almost 5 years on this list, your comments carry the greatest of
weight.
One additional (prolonged) comment Re: Paleo and weight loss --
A paleo diet (quibbles over definition aside, for the moment) is the
*correct diet* for human beings. I am convinced of this, although my
ignorance makes this conviction resemble a belief. The fact that so many
well-educated people on this list share my *belief* butresses this
conviction.
Yet, is surprises me that so many contributors to this list equate the
"correct diet" with a cure for modern ailments. Again, this is more
intuitive than logical, but: The removal of a cause does not necessarily
remove the condition. Can we expect that a return to a "correct diet" will
automatically mediate the effects of years of an "incorrect diet"?
I won't bore you all with a list of the disfunctions I attibute to a
lifetime of SAD. I am 6'1" and weigh in exess of 300 lbs. My greatest
weight exceed 370 lbs., and I have prevsiouly used Atkins/paleo to drop to
240 lbs. The charts say I should weigh about 185. My goals aren't as
ambitous as Todd's -- to "look great naked before I die". However, I would
like to wear 38-inch jeans again. If -- when, dammit! -- I get there, I'll
worry about fitting into 34-inch jeans.
In the meantime, I carry no illusions that a "paleo pure" diet will enable
to reach my goals. Nature -- and what do we mean about "paleo pure" other
than "nature" -- is all about equilibrium. My goal is to upset that
equilibrium, to shed the excess pounds that years of SAD has induced.
I plan to leave the "taboo" topics of supplements, etc. until I'm trying to
drop that final 40 pounds. But I realize that even the reference to CAD
broached the taboo. Thus, this aplogia, even if it falls short of an
apology.
Robert
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