Nothing Prehistoric About This Diet Plan
All sorts of health experts strive to come up with the next great diet: one that promises weight loss, good health and longer life expectancy. Because of that, the diet industry is multi-billion dollar business and there are probably enough fad diets that to try one each day of the year.
But you would expect (or at least hope) a plan released by a doctor would rise above the rest with research based recommendations. Unfortunately The Prehistoric Diet, created by Dr. Oz falls short on several fronts. At first when I read through the plan, I thought I wasn’t on his official website. Maybe I ended up on a fan page, or even a fake site. After double checking I read on and began to think it was a joke or a sarcastic attempt to de-credit other “prehistoric” diets out there. But it is a real attempt to create a diet.
For those of you who don’t know Dr. Oz, he is the same man who scared the public with his claims of high arsenic levels in apple juice. The FDA came out and said that he was measuring the wrong compound in the juice and created a panic for no reason. Dr. Oz is also well known on the talk show circuit... so much so, I consider him more a celebrity spokesperson than an actual doctor.
But, back to his diet. As an introduction to The Prehistoric Diet, Dr Oz’s website explains, “The cave people were ahead of their time when it came to maintaining a healthy diet... To better understand what our prehistoric ancestors already knew, Dr. Oz explores the Prehistoric Diet.”
The name and throwback to the cave people is totally misleading. His diet contains whole grains (not available back then), encourages soy protein (a highly processed version of protein), eating tofu (nothing against vegetarians, but I know our ancestors did not eat this) and contains no animal protein sources. The cave people were hunters. They ate meat.
Some of you may be familiar with the Paleo diet and other similar plans that DO encourage eating what our ancestors had access to: lean meats, healthy fats, fruits, and vegetables. You can even read more about it here . The Prehistoric Diet needs a name change. If you look closer, you’ll see it’s a pretty strict vegetarian diet. So how bout we call it that, and call it a day?
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