OK, once goodsamaritan gets back on the 20th of May, I'll start updating rawpaleodiet.com with some of my new ideas, a few days after that.


The first new article will be more or less a rehash of what I've already written in the child boards of this forum re how to adapt to an RVAF diet, perhaps with an extended(or separate) section for RVAF newbies on how to handle social situations with SAD-eaters(ideas welcome). I may set up a separate thread on RVAF-style hygiene/toothbrushing/washing, but only if enough RVAFers on this website/board provide me with decent material, enough to fill 1 page. Otherwise, it's not worth it.

I'll also, very slowly, start doing prolonged reviews of various books which are vaguely related to rawpalaeo doctrine, such as the Stefansson book "Not by bread alone", weston-price's work, and, eventually, reviews of michael eades' books, the 2 aajonus books, cordain  etc(although, IMO, cordain's and audette's books are largely worthless as they're mass-market pulp,  intended to be read by morons). All these reviews  will take months as I have other things on my mind.

I would prefer it if others, not me,  could post here  their own suggestions re exercise. My own view is that the only suitable "Palaeo" exercise would be along the lines of bodyweight training in a general sense, with various martial arts and other aerobic exercise being OK. Anaerobic exercise, such as weight-lifting would likely be non-Palaeo as it wasn't practised too much in Palaeo time(well, other than lifting rocks). But if you disagree re this, feel free to make that clear with a detailed explanation.

If anyone can think of anything else that might be suitable for the rawpaleodiet.com website, either write your suggestion in this thread, or post to me privately. I would appreciate further testimonials from people re a RAF/RVAF diet. You DON'T have to post photos or your name, if that's your preference, so don't worry about that.

I'll also seriously consider putting in some serious articles from palaeoanthropologists about Palaeolithic art/culture/lifestyle. I hope no one has any objections.

TD

Thank you very much.  That was my design.  My idea and I probably never should have given it away.  Yeah, blogging software makes no sense for an informational site.  Oh well, c'est la vie! 

OK, I agree the new design looks frightful and is difficult to navigate. Trouble is, that we also need a site which is easy to update on a regular basis. Perhaps we could persuade GS to keep the old rawpaleodiet.com site but to enable the wordpress version c.2-5 days every  month or 2 or 3  months, so as to allow people like me to update the site, within that period, while leaving things as they are the rest of the time.

The main issue I have is this:- those Palaeo cave-paintings are not only very beautiful but also  extremely symbolic with the Palaeolithic era  and people, throughout history, have always related more to symbols than anything else. It's sort of like having a pro-Christian website but without having  a Cross shown. I would prefer all those cave-paintings back.

That's an unfortunate view about Audette's NeanderThin, as it is the only book which mentions the Paleo diet and the theory of biological discordance and advocates eating lots of animal fats and eating nearly-raw meat (Audette just briefly seared the outsides of his steaks and also ate beef jerky, which is dried raw beef, though I don't know at what temp. he dried it at). So it seems to be the closest thing to a RPD book ever written, despite some amateur errors.

The books of Stefansson, Weston Price and Aajonus don't really claim to be Paleo and vary too much from a Paleo diet to be put into that category. Boyd Eaton's Paleolithic Prescription is the only other book that claims to be Paleo, but it's diet is much less like the RPD than Audette's. So up till now, Audette's book is the closest thing to a RPD book.

I really don't consider the mass market point to be a negative, because all of these books were aimed at laymen (ie., the mass market), rather than academicians and diet books tend to be mass market by their nature. They couldn't make any significant revenues from them or convince a lot of the masses if they weren't. Audette's book was written by a layman for laymen. So he accomplished its purpose.

I just ordered a book by Roy Mankovitz after akaikumo suggested it. If it turns out to be a better fit for RPD than NeanderThin, I'll let you know.

If you read ray audette's book in detail you'll find that while he grudgingly admits that raw meat seems best he still actively warns to cook it because of the bacteria-parasite issue.