Re: The Paleo Diet

Today, I learned about the existence of what is called the Paleo Diet.  Long story short, it’s a fad diet revolving around exclusively eating the following:

the “contemporary” Paleolithic diet consists mainly of fish, grass-fed pasture raised meats, eggs, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt, refined sugar, and processed oils.

Despite the fact that the whole rationale is that you’d be eating like a caveman since that’s the kind of shit that cavemen were eating, in human, non-moonspeak, it’s a diet revolving around eating healthy food.

Figure that: eat healthy food and your health improves.

Just like every other fucking fad diet on the planet.

BRILLIANT!

Are people really this stupid, lazy, undisciplined and naïve to require so many adjectives and gimmicks attached to pursuing a healthier lifestyle?  Is the word “diet” so scary and intimidating on its own that people have to attach descriptors and subtitles to them in order for people to try them, despite the fact that all of them simply revolve around altering your diet BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY DO SOME FUCKING EXERCISE?

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