"the way we are eating now is poorly aligned with our biology"
This statement seems unambiguously true. More than half of the population is overweight, we suffer from chronic diseases that don't afflict hunter gatherers, and there are clinical studies supporting the harmful effects of processed sugar.
It doesn't follow, from the statement you highlighted, that paleo is the answer. We'd need evidence in support of that particular answer to the problem.
But there clearly is a problem. We're not meant to eat the way we are eating - the evidence is all around us.
The flowering of fad diets is an attempt to deal with this. It has its flaws and incorrect theories, like all experiments.
You're also using an ad hominem fallacy. You say that a diet is wrong, because the reasons for it are wrong. But that isn't evidence about the diet itself. You should address whether the diet works.
Edit: parent post deleted. Well, now I just look irrelevant.
I'll note so-called overweight - BMI 25-30 - is the longest-lived cohort, followed by normal (18-25), obese (30-40), underweight (<18), morbidly obese (40+).
True. Those are good points. I'll just say the piece isn't really about paleo diet so I didn't make any effort to justify it there. I only mentioned it because my lifestyle choices wrt food got me thinking along parallel lines for my technology addictions.
I don't know if "paleo" is the answer. I'm not sure there is "an" answer. I do know that eight months into a significant lifestyle change my HDL is up, my LDL is down, my body fat is 13% (down from > 22%), I don't crash in the afternoon, and I'm wearing a pant size I last saw when I was 22.
Of course, none of that says anything about longevity - which is the primary reason I started my fitness and dietary changes. To address that question I'm cloning a thousand instances of me and will feed 200 vegan, 200 paleo, 200 atkins, 200 standard american diet...
Obviously I can't know with any certainty that what I'm doing is the "right" answer, all I know is that I feel good and am no longer manifesting the typical pathologies of the standard American diet. That makes me happy.
