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ever looked on the internet for the best weight loss diets? if you have, you’ve probablyread about the next best diet in the world called the paleo diet. but what exactly isthis paleo diet and what makes it better than all the other diets our there?paleo is short for paleolithic, a prehistoric period of human development that existed overtwo and a half million years ago. during this paleolithic era, humans have yet to learnabout agriculture and animal domestication. this meant that humans only ate food thatwere readily available to them in their surrounding environment . they then genetically adaptedto become stronger and healthier by consuming more of these foods. advocators of the dietargue that there has been too little of a time frame between the end of the paleolithicera and modern day for the human body to adapt to today's western diet. the lack of adaptationis supposedly responsible for the existence of modern diseases today such as diabetesand obesity. this paleo-type die...

thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. i'm an archaeological scientist and i study the healthand dietary histories of ancient peoples using bone biochemistry and ancient dna. i'm here because i wantto talk to you about the paleo diet. it's one of america's fastest growingdiet fads. the main idea behind it is that the keyto longevity and optimal health is to abandonour modern agricultural diets, which make us ill, and move far back in timeto our palaeolithic ancestors, more than 10,000 years ago,and eat like them. now, i'm really interested in this idea because it purports to putarchaeology in action, to take information we know about the past and use it in the presentto help us today. now, this idea was really startedin the 1970s with this book, "the stone age diet." it's diversified since theninto several variants, including the paleo diet,the primal blueprint, the new evolution diet, and neanderthin, and most of the language of these dietsmakes r...

ryan: hey, hey everybody out there. this isryan from gmb. today i have the one and only nate miyaki with me. not miyagi, not to beconfused with the karate kid sensei. but nate, you are an ultimate sensei, aren’t you? nate: that’s what they say man. that’swhat they say. my dad kind of looks like mr. miyagi. i won’t be offended if you get alittle confused there. ryan: yeah. well, i’m always confused butyou know that. i will just let everybody know nate is actually my nutrition coach. he hasbeen helping me to get – i don’t want to say back on track but really solidify mynutrition and it’s great. i love working with nate. he’s a good guy. we kind of havea mutual friend over in san francisco so we’ve known each other for quite a while now butwe haven’t really even met yet. so one of these days hopefully we can meetface to face but nate and i, pretty good friends and today we’re going to be talking allabout you. so let’s just keep going with this. is that...

ryan: hey, hey everybody out there. this isryan from gmb. today i have the one and only nate miyaki with me. not miyagi, not to beconfused with the karate kid sensei. but nate, you are an ultimate sensei, aren’t you? nate: that’s what they say man. that’swhat they say. my dad kind of looks like mr. miyagi. i won’t be offended if you get alittle confused there. ryan: yeah. well, i’m always confused butyou know that. i will just let everybody know nate is actually my nutrition coach. he hasbeen helping me to get – i don’t want to say back on track but really solidify mynutrition and it’s great. i love working with nate. he’s a good guy. we kind of havea mutual friend over in san francisco so we’ve known each other for quite a while now butwe haven’t really even met yet. so one of these days hopefully we can meetface to face but nate and i, pretty good friends and today we’re going to be talking allabout you. so let’s just keep going with this. is that cool man? ...