Talk:Paleolithic lifestyle

Lacking criticism
This article reads like someone is trying to convince me of adapting to a paleo diet. Not objective at all. It reads like an about.com article. How about including the actual evidence that is said to come from these various fields, instead of making broad claims that we just have to assume are accurate. I study anthropology, one of the things that gets brought up often, is the actual amount of animal protein consumed by hunter-gatherers. It is really common to see in any Intro to Anthropological Data class this argument being made from both sides. I believe there is an article by Ember in 1978 titled "Myths About Hunter Gatherers" (argues for an emphasis on hunting over gathering) would be a good one to add.


 * I agree. It's very one sided (especially for something that hasn't really been proved to have much benefit). At the very least, there should be a section detailing the views from the mainstream scientific community. Bloodredchaos (talk) 22:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I also agree: a very poor article that reads like plain advocacy. Also, it lacks suggestions for the "Paleo lifestyle" such as "dying young from preventable diseases, like paleolithic hunter-gatherers did". Also, I miss guidelines about cannibalism and whether it's good for your skin. 190.17.52.238 (talk) 02:14, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

If you think this article is biased and is supporting a particular lifestyle, insert information from secondary sources that criticizes and neutralizes such information, or create a new article titled criticism of paleolithic lifestyle, etc. Nashhinton (talk) 16:16, 13 February 2013 (UTC)


 * But this article mostly just lists recommendations "inspired by the paleo philosophy" and I don't know that there are any facts about what paleolithic people did worldwide, lifestyle-wise. Soranoch (talk) 17:54, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

There is no sense criticizing this article because you don't believe in the philosophy advocated by the Paleo movement. If there are good reasons to criticize these tenets, they should be included in a separate section "criticisms of Paleo lifestyle" with clear sources for evidence. The article itself objectively describes what Paleo followers say with plenty of references. You might as well criticize or remove an article about Islam because you don't believe in the admonitions of the Qu'ran, even when the article merely describes what Islamic theologians say... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.49.227.126 (talk) 21:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

POV
In its current state this article is heavily slanted towards the fringe "paleo" movement. I've flagged specific statements with dubious tags, but the root of the problem is that it consistently repeats the misconstrued, cherry picked, and often flat out wrong scientific claims of paleo advocates as if they were fact. In actuality, real scientists who study the Palaeolithic period are overwhelmingly critical of most if not all of these claims. We need to give a lot more weight to these criticisms, which are currently completely absent from the article. We also need to take care to frame statements such as "[diseases] are attributed to the modern, 'civilized' lifestyle", "our minds and emotions too are adapted for a life as hunter-gatherers" and "hunter-gatherers consumed substantial amounts of animal protein" in a way that makes it clear they are contentious views of proponents of a so-called "paleolithic lifestyle", not scientific fact. Joe Roe (talk) 12:23, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Paleolithic movement
I'd prefer the article be titled "paleolithic movement". There is no singular, well defined, monolithic "lifestyle" - but instead a raft of commercial books/lifestyle products.

I'll change the lead sentence. There are quite obvious POV issues and dubious tags throughout.

-- Callinus (talk) 03:43, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * A more accurate title might be: "Pseudo-paleolithic industry". That is, after all, what is going on here. You cannot live a paleolithic lifestyle in the 20th Century, and the evidence shows that the purported paleo diets and practices are largely based on scientifically illiterate conjecture. Guy (Help!) 11:30, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

What is ancestral health?
Is there a difference between ancestral health and paleolithic lifestyle? QuackGuru ( talk ) 01:29, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Needs an explanation
Aside from the clear bias in this article, would someone please state what the tenets of this lifestyle are? I see a few ideas in the captions to the images, but that's not enough. I think the first section would be a list of the tenets along with some supporting copy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seffer (talk • contribs) 21:18, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Is this page even notable?
Paleolithic diet obviously is, but apart from two online articles, I think there's no support given for the notability of this article. Chriswaterguy talk 06:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)


 * This looks like a good candidate for an AfD. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:16, 20 February 2018 (UTC)