“The concern is not for intelligent, well informed, highly motivated people who replace grains with vegetable, nuts and seeds. They will get along fine. The concern is for vulnerable groups who have low intakes and/or high needs for thiamin. If society gives up grains in order to be ‘healthy’ these vulnerable groups will be at increased risk of deficiency. Regards, Bill”

Ist world problems….
We live in a country where we can chose to eat whatever we like, but diet plans and nutritional advice has become a huge monopoly and it seems like everyone is in the game.
Paleo is a lifestyle and culture. People living Paleo, feel part of a large community and support and encourage eachother. It is nice and I think the diet has a lot of positives and is nutrient dense if done correctly. However I am not Paleo and I do not wish to become completely Paleo. I dont really eat meat so this is a hard diet for em to follow.
I gather that it may be frustrating that a ‘celebrity chef’ is preaching to Australians about how they should live and eat. But he is just presenting a lifestyle and diet that worked well for him. I believe he is doing it because he truly believes in this way of eating. He is really passionate about it (except on MKR).
Again, I don’t follow Paleo but there are definately benefits to this way of eating and living. Most importantly the emphasis on fresh, whole foods, opposed to processed. But I am not convinced on certain aspects of the diet. I’m not convinced that you need to add coconut oil, butter/ cream to cold drip coffee……
Also Pete’s approach to preaching the diet on social media and flooding the media with information on Paleo doesn’t interest me. I get flooded with posts etc that makes me think it is a culture of people on Paleo to be evangelical about the diet.
I have read some information on cholesterol and on PUFA’s and in my understanding PUFA’s oxidise more easily than saturated fats which is what causes a danger in those with high cholesterol. However this is when exposed to high temperatures. Also the size of the cholesterol particles appears to be an important factor for atherosclerosis, smaller particles being more problematic. Antioxidants play a big role in our diet and whilst some don’t advocate fruit, fruit is a wonderful source of antioxidant nutrients. Forget superfoods, just eat the real foods grown locally, including fruits.
People have become so obsessed with what specific foods do to the body in isolation or what specific nutrients one food contains over the other. You need to look at the ‘whole’ diet, not one food item or food group. You can’t hone in on fats and tell people not to eat saturated fats or not to eat PUFA fats. The diet as a whole is important. We need to be more holistic if we want to be balanced in our approach to eating.
Some people will be utterly confused about what to eat, so they are probably gettign information about all different diets and combining them all together e.g. Paleo, Gluten-free, High protein, High saturated fat, standard Australian dietary guidelines. and you know what that could look like – disaster.
We need to be sensible, stop confusing people, be balanced, eat real food, don’t over eat. We don’t need to justify why we are drinking a fresh fruit and vegetable juice over a high fat protein smoothie.

Started learning again what REAL food is, cut out anything synthetic from my diet and started exercising hard. A month later or thereabouts, something magic happened. The weight just started falling off my body. I lost nearly 50kg of fat by learning what real food is and exercising. I had tried the exercise on it’s own before, but rapidly plateaued.

My diet now is absolutely only real whole foods. E numbers and strange long ingredients lists have no place in a healthy diet. I’m probably the Heart Foundation’s worst nightmare. My consumption of natural saturated fats is constant. I put organic butter on everything. I cook everything in organic coconut oil. My dairy is absolutely organic and 100% full fat. You’d also better believe that I always eat the fat on my grass fed steaks and in fact on any other organic meat I consume!

I can’t entirely agree with Peter Evans though, hell would freeze over before I gave up fresh sourdough smothered in butter.

So, according to nutritional guidelines put out by the government and others I should probably be dead ten times over. Instead I’m fitter, healthier and happier than I’ve ever been in my life. Go figure.

POSCH was non-blinded (not feasible in this case), and was confounded by surgical weight loss. It should also be pointed out that mortality was the primary endpoint and was not statistically significant at the end of the formal trial. Yes, there have been numerous post-trial follow-ups, but these are post-hoc and outside of the trial’s original hypothesis.