Caveman Fad Diet

Eat like a caveman and prove you are as smart as one, too.

"'Eat like a caveman for a healthy heart', is the headline in The Daily Telegraph...It and several other newspapers report on a new study which claims that a 'paleolithic' or caveman diet of berries, nuts, lean meat and fish 'could help to reduce the risk of developing heart disease'.

The story is based on a small, short study of 20 young healthy volunteers which had a 30% drop out rate, with complete data for only six people available. However, these six people reduced their calorie intake by about 900 calories to about 1500 calories a day and the whole group of 14 who managed to stick with the study, lost on average 5lbs (2.3kg) in three weeks. There was no control group, so it is not possible to say whether there is anything about a caveman diet compared with any other low calorie diet that produces the weight loss or the other changes noted."

And this is what passes for research.