I’m moving this up to the top now that the event is over and a few recaps are available. Stephen Guyenet posted his Thoughts On The McDougall Advanced Study Weekend (ASW) on his site, and an attendee of the ASW, Jim, posted a recap of Saturday’s talks on McDougall’s Forum.
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Dr. McDougall is hosting a debate between himself and Stephan Guyenet (author of Whole Health Source) this Saturday:
Guyenet is one speaker at McDougall’s Advanced Study Weekend, part of a lineup that includes Neal Barnard, Dean Ornish, Gary Null, John Mackey (CEO Whole Foods), Doug Lisle, and others.
I wish I could attend. I only hope someone writes about it.
Interesting, this is not the impression I had when I saw Stephan’s blog post about it.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2014/07/upcoming-talks.html
There was no mention of a debate, and the abstract of his talk doesn’ seem to have anything to do with the paleo diet or meat. I wonder if the two are truly on the same page about what is going to be presented? 🙂
Guyenet’s presentation on insulin is on Sunday morning, not Saturday. McDougall is referencing Saturday evening’s panel discussion. I had purposely linked to the page that directs to the schedule of events to make this clear.
The September National Geographic Magazine has a very interesting article on the Paleo-diets called the “Evolution of Diets.” It looks at the diets of today’s remaining hunter-gatherer groups, the wide variety of paleo-diets of our distance ancestors, and how cooking and processing of foods may have changed human evolution. Interesting read.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/
Thank you for this link. Looks like a good read.
You know, I think there are elements of the Paleo diet that are good. A big one is that it shuns processed food. Overly refined, highly sweetened, lots of stale oxidized oil … the stuff just isn’t healthy. But they don’t eat a lot of great food … no grains, beans, legumes, potatoes. And the meat they do eat has to be raised outside of a factory farm, preferably wild-caught, so it hasn’t been exposed to the pesticide-ridden, genetically-engineered corn and soy that livestock are fed, as well as drugs. I think it’s a hard diet to eat.
From Guyenet’s recap:
He also said that most of the attendees at McDougall’s conference appeared to be older, “in their 60s.” I’ve observed this too.