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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