As y'all probably know by now, part of my daily web reading is to check in on what's happening on paleobuzz.com followed blogs ... which landed me at Dr. BG's Animal Pharm in a post discussing a 2009 study by Linda Frassetto, et.al. (Frassetto presented at AHS12): Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet.
This post is not addressing Dr. BG's post and the results of this study ... perhaps another time for that one ... but rather the diet used in the study. From the abstract, bullet-pointed and formatted for clarity:
Methods: We performed an outpatient, metabolically controlled study, in nine non-obese sedentary healthy volunteers, ensuring no weight loss by daily weight.
We compared the findings when the participants consumed their usual diet with those when they consumed a paleolithic type diet. The participants consumed their usual diet for 3 days, three ramp-up diets of increasing potassium and fiber for 7 days, then a paleolithic type diet comprising lean meat, fruits, vegetables and nuts, and excluding nonpaleolithic type foods, such as cereal grains, dairy or legumes, for 10 days.
