Important Gwyneth news

[Dave W]

Gwyneth Paltrow has started eating carbs and cheese again

Turns out that quackery doesn't work. What a surprise.

[TBird1958]

 Isn't she a treasure! 

[Pilgrim]

She said "I 1have to be really careful not to have inflammation in my brain."

I think that boat sailed long ago.

[uwe]

Gone are the days when Dave warmed her heart (and Lord knows what else ...) by bringing her a freshly hunted mammoth steak. Sad.



A recommendation: Try pasta, Dave, that always does it.

[uwe]

What those paleo diet guys completely miss out on is that growing, culturing, harvesting and eating grain, wheat, corn and rice is the source of all human culture. Before you do that and settle down - and no longer hunt and scavenge like a tribe of roaming apes - nothing much happens culturally. Most hunter & scavenger cultures never even developed reading and writing, why would you if you build nothing on which you could inscribe your language because you're always on the move? Books aren't really made to be lugged around either, too heavy.

So apart from the unproven biological effects, I wonder why in the grand scheme of things (which somehow always end up making sense with another), a foodstuff that was and continues to be so vital to our existence and development should be harmful to us, just sayin'.

Banal things like the consistent availability of food can have huge cultural impact: The potato (not a grain and paleo-friendly if largely unprocessed) and its increasing importance as a crop that - unlike grain - worked in poor soils and under adverse weather conditions gradually drove out famine in Europe, it went side by side with Renaissance and the development of the modern world as we know it. And when potato crops failed on a grander scale, the consequences were severe ---> Irish emigration.

[doombass]

So finally the sheep herd can turn 180 degrees and run the other direction.