Tag Archives: paleo diet

Monday/Start of the semester links

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

During the break I was busy with typical holiday/break activities (including the first half of my daughter’s improbably exciting U11 girls’ basketball season) as well as a lot of intense reading/writing/research related activities. I’ll hopefully be blogging more about the … Continue reading →

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Meat-eating, porotic hyperostosis and early Homo

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

A large group of researchers working at Olduvai Gorge, including Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo (IDEA, Madrid), Charles Musiba (UC-Denver) and Henry Bunn (U. Wisconsin), have a paper out in PLOS One this week on evidence of porotic hyperostosis in a 1.5 million … Continue reading →

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Problems with “the” paleo-diet

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

NPR recently picked up a story on “the paleo diet” moving more mainstream. The basic idea behind the paleo diet is that evolution has shaped our metabolic processes to fit a certain kind of diet, and by and large, we … Continue reading →

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