Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet.\nFrassetto LA, Schloetter M, Mietus-Synder M, Morris RC Jr, Sebastian A.\nEur J Clin Nutr. 2009 Feb 11. [Epub ahead of print]\nPMID: 19209185 \ndoi: 10.1038/ejcn.2009.4\n
I imagine most readers of this blog would expect a group of subjects to do better on a Paleolithic diet as compared to a standard American diet, but there are few studies actually making the comparison. One was posted yesterday in the Advance-0nline-Publication section of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition that shows subjects following a Paleolithic diet made major metabolic changes, and made them rapidly
Beneficial effects of a Paleolithic diet on cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes: a randomized cross-over pilot study.
onsson T, Granfeldt Y, Ahren B, Branell UC, Palsson G, Hansson A, Soderstrom M, Lindeberg S.
Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2009 Jul 16;8(1):35. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 19604407
doi:10.1186/1475-2840-8-35