Just curious if there are any NeanderThin-type dieters still active on this
forum. The basic NeanderThin approach was what originally inspired this
forum, but it seems like a minority view here now. It's not entirely
surprising, given that the author of NeanderThin, Ray Audette, is currently
not active in promoting this dietary approach.

To recap, Ray advocated eating only (or at least mostly) foods that one
could acquire while "naked with a sharp stick." This was a rough criterion
that he does not adhere to absolutely himself. For example, Ray eats cooked
and ground foods and one does need to be able to butcher a carcass after
killing it. So a more accurate criterion might be "naked with a sharp stick,
cutting and grinding stones, and fire." In other words, foods one can
acquire using only Stone Age technologies--but that doesn't have as good a
ring to it, I know. :-)

The food categories that Ray saw as meeting his criterion include the
following:

Meats and fish (and organs and seafood)
Fruits (for some reason he listed berries separately)
Vegetables
Nuts and seeds
Herbs/teas and spices (he didn't list this category, but does include these
foods in his recipes)

Also, for beverages he included water, mineral water, teas, vegetable juice,
small amounts of fruit juice and nut milk. He uses honey as a sweetener and
modest amounts of salt as a seasoning.

Diet trends are difficult to sustain for more than 3-5 years after a diet
book is published (which is why Dr. Atkins published very similar diet books
every few years, sold various products, and used various forms of promotion
to keep his approach going). Since Loren Cordain is still very active in
Paleolithic nutrition, it is likely that his approach will eventually
eclipse Ray's in this field (unless Ray publishes another book or somehow
becomes active again in this field), as much as this may disappoint some
here. Some of Ray's views are still being kept alive by other fairly
prominent people (for example, Dr. Michael Eades--a friend of
Cordain--strongly lobbies for the view Ray shared that saturated fat does
not contribute to CHD).