--- "S.B. Feldman, MD" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
<<>  I beg to differ in that I find the questions and
> commentary to be entirely
> reasonable. Why 'scathing'?>>

Look, I am not against the Paleolithic Diet.  It seems
to me that in many ways it is a good diet and not
complicated, as so many of these diets are.

HOWEVER, it also occurs to me that for some people
(and my observation comes from real experiences)diet
(and this applies to all "health food" diets, not just
paleo) take on a life of their own.  Some people
expect too much from the diet...they expect MAGICAL
results.  The search for the perfect diet becomes no
less that Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of
Youth.  So, they get some good results from Paleo, but
that is not enough.  Their lives become this
neverending quest for the perfect diet.

As William Burroughs convincingly portrays in novels
like "Naked Lunch", we are a society of addicts (to
one thing or another).  Addiction enslaves...addiction
narrows life.  I have seen people whose whole life
(outside of work) revolves around going to the health
food store, eating, cooking, and getting the exercise
(usually even that is regimented by some kind of Guru
as in the "Live Right For Your Type" books). The rest
of their free time is divided between groups like this
and reading about the newest entry to the dietary
pantheon.  Is such a life worhty of living?  You are
going to die, you know.  On your deathbed will you be
happy that this is how you lived?  Would you want your
children to live this way?

Of course, eating well and exercising can be
liberatory and open up life...however, when it becomes
an obsession, an addiction, it narrows life.

My comments are not aimed at everyone on this
list..but I am sure (having been on this list for
nearly two years now) that it applies to some.
I dont mean to irritate but to hopefully provoke some
thought on this matter.

Thomas

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