The Paleo Diet® is built upon an extremely simple concept: we should eat foods similar to those we evolved around, and we should avoid the foods that were not part of our evolution. Media and popular personalities can make it seem complicated, but it is not. The Paleo Diet consists of vegetables, fruits, lean meats, fish, eggs, nuts, and seeds. Essentially, it’s what you learned in kindergarten.
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The paleosphere has jumped on the notion that added salt is healthy based on research showing a J-shaped relationship. Learn why there were major flaws in this research and why a high-salt diet is not Paleo
By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.Over the past few years, craze over bacon has surged in the Paleo community, but is it Paleo or isn’t it?
By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.The recent Game Changers documentary has made many people consider veganism, but is it as simple a question as the movie makes it seem.
By Nell StephensonI was delighted to learn Dr. Oz was going to again feature The Paleo Diet, except expounding upon the health virtues of beans and legumes is unacceptable.
By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.Dr. Cordain discusses dairy's unfavorable effect on health and how milk proteins and peptides can promote allergies, inflammation, and autoimmune disease.
By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.Dr. Loren Cordain’s final graduate student, Trevor Connor, M.S., brings more than a decade of nutrition and physiology expertise to spearhead the new Paleo Diet team.
One of the original members of the Paleo movement, Mark J. Smith, Ph.D., has spent nearly 30 years advocating for the benefits of Paleo nutrition.
Ironman athlete, mom, author, and nutrition blogger Nell Stephenson has been an influential member of the Paleo movement for over a decade.
As a professor at Colorado State University, Dr. Loren Cordain developed The Paleo Diet® through decades of research and collaboration with fellow scientists around the world.
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