For the (Prehistoric) Birds: 7 Reasons I Can't Get on Board with the Paleo Diet

Ahem. Let's make this clear up front, this is my personal opinion. But as an RD, it's my job to evaluate diets, and because it's my job, I hear from a lot of people day in and day out who try different fad diets, and so I get to see how they work in "real life," not just what the textbook says. Here's the thing. It doesn't matter what a diet is supposed to call for, it matters how people tend to interpret it. Just like the Atkins diet wasn't meant to be a free-for-all of bacon and salami doesn't mean that didn't happen. Here's what I generally think of the Paleo Diet, a diet based on eating the way our prehistoric ancestors did. I'll give you a hint: The obsession with the Paleo Diet makes me want to crawl out of my skin. - By Heather Neal

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