Doctor Greg Ellis told me he made his best cuts when he ate basically just Pemmican.which is about 60% fat and 40% protein (depending on recipe). If you adopt a low carb lifestyle (I am more paleo, but when I cut I go meat and eggs), you have to not freak out about fats.you are becoming a fat burner not a sugar burner. He is dogmatic about his anti-fat stance.so, he looks at low carb as high protein only. I commented he should have eaten lots of fats (oils). Then, I commented on his 'Mistake.' His is a lawyer-type.doesn't like to hear this concept of 'Mistake.' He complains in the book about moodiness on low carb, but you will note that he is in total 'Rabbit Starvation.' He only ate tuna, chicken breasts and a very dry salad. I read 'Ripped' a number of times and commented to Bass that his OWN experience found that he was 'most' ripped on a ultra low carb diet. I have emailed back and forth with Clarence for a couple of years. It is intriguing to me that Bass when refering to Art Devany's EvolutionaryFitness said 'it makses perfect sense' yet bass still makes the base of his diet from neolithic foods.that does not make sense. When the nutrient density of grains, legumes and dairy are compared to that of lean meat, vegetables and fruit the neolithic foods are like eating cardboard! We are being told to eat a diet which even after it is 'enriched' ( bread, pasta etc) it WILL lead to nutrient deficiencies in a sedentary person.to say nothing of the demands of an athlete to say nothing of the benefits of ingesting vitamins and minerals at levels well above the RDA. Why? Because eating this way is like taking a nutritional supplement! This is perhaps the most convincing point: If one puts the ADA recomended diet for your theoretical 70kg person it is IMPOSSIBLE to reach measly RDA levels of virtually all vitamins and minerals. All of the articles at () are excellent (and free) but I am just struk dumb by the sample diet here:

I think coach mentions around here somewhere that what Bass advocates is a good step above the current diet of most americans.but it is NOT optimal. The standard of health of primitive agriculturalists was abysmall compared to that of their HG predicessors. The neolithic defines the transition from a huntergatherer economy to agriculture and domestication of animals.

If one buys into the theory of evolution.paleo is what we and our prehuman ancestors ate for millions of years.

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