There's a new Swedish paleo diet study out: A Palaeolithic-type diet causes strong tissue-specific effects on ectopic fat deposition in obese postmenopausal women. The title sounds promising, but my first reaction to it, sadly, not so much about the potential findings, but, what exactly is this paleo-TYPE diet?? It would appear to be based loosely on Cordain's original Paleo Diet (I hear that's trademarked).
This was a small study, 10 women, no control group, lasting only 5 weeks. There were some benefits including around 10 lbs average weight loss and almost 50% reduction in liver fat. This shall be for another blog post. But what diet was tested? Here's the diet description from the full text:
Participants were given prepared meal portions that were intended to provide an average intake of about 30 energy percentage (E%) protein, 40 E% fat (mostly unsaturated) and 30 E% carbohydrates for breakfast, lunch and dinner, together with 40 g nuts (walnuts and sweet almonds) on a daily basis for 5 weeks.
