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4. Guest Book Review by Sally Fallon, MA.

Speaking of Sally, here is a stinging review of Loren Cordain's latest foray
into Paleolithic eating. Please feel free to forward this review to friends
who may be following Dr. Cordain's questionable dietary advice.

The Paleo Diet

Loren Cordain, PhD

 . skinless chicken breasts!

What's going on here.  The criticism re salt belies an attitude of
protesteth too much! One example says it all.   Peter (and Paula) Paleo may
well have enjoyed the referenced salt sources but they did not have access
to the ubiquitous salt shaker found on every restaurant table in the free
world!  What did he do to her to deserve this?? This is way beyond fair
criticism.

Cordain says that primitive man did not eat salt. Yet we know that salt was
available in many parts of the world, principally from brine on the
seacoasts and salt flats in the interior. Salt-rich blood from game was
collected and used in food preparation. In Africa, ashes of sodium-rich
marsh grasses were added to food.

Unfortunately, Cordain's Paleo Diet is not only absurd, but also dangerous.
High levels of lean meat lead to vitamin A deficiency and a host of health
problems, even heart disease, which Cordain's high-protein diet is supposed
to prevent. There's no good source of calcium in his diet and no salt, so
vital for digestion. He recommends rubbing flax oil on meat before cooking-a
recipe for creating carcinogenic oxidation products. And then there are
those diet sodas. . . bound to cause trouble in a diet so lacking in
protective nutrients. Fortunately, Peter Paleolith never ate this way, or we
would not have made it this far.

COMMENT: Definitely The Paleo Diet is a must-avoid book!