User:Pietrosperoni/Primal diet

The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. This is a copy of a deleted article restored to user space in order to allow Pietro to work up a properly neutral version. If you have a problem with this please take it up with me at my talk page. JzG The Primal Diet is a carnivorous, low carbohydrate raw foods diet, pioneered by Aajonus Vonderplanitz. It can also be considered as a Paleolithic diet with the addition of raw milk products. The diet makes high claims on its health benefits; claims that were mostly never scientifically studied, and go against the current scientific understanding. In particular it claims to be successful in reverting serious degenerative conditions, like cancer and osteoporosis. For this reason most of the adherents to this diet are primarily moved by health motives as opposed to the many adherents in the raw food community, who are more often moved by ethical reasons.

Aajonus Vonderplanitz
The diet was created by Aajonus Vonderplanitz. He died in Thailand on August 28, 2013 after a balcony gave way.

Foods in the Diet
Most of Primal Diet is based on a wide range of raw food: raw eggs and raw meat; raw fat (like unpasteurized butter, avocado or stone pressed olive oil)generally mixed with unheated honey; unpasteurized dairies (raw cheese, raw milk, raw cream, and raw butter); freshly squeezed vegetable juices, and some fruits. Very little water, if any is taken, and possibly naturally sparkling water. Although the food is taken raw it is sometimes heated to room temperature, or up to 41 degrees to avoid cooling down the body.

Claims
Primal dietist have a number of claims on health and how food affects the body. Some of which have been accepted by mainstream science, some are being discussed and some are only supported by anecdotal evidence.

Criticism
Some people feel that Aajonus' method for researching the Primal diet, is less scientific than methods used by nutritionists such as Patrick Holford (meticulously studying thousands of scientific papers on nutrition).

Reference

 * Aajonus Vonderplanitz: 'We Want to Live', 1997 (reissued as 'We Want to Live: The Primal Diet', 2005)
 * Aajonus Vonderplanitz: 'The Recipe for Living Without Disease', 2002
 * Dr. Weston A. Price: 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration'
 * Francis Pottenger: 'Pottenger’s Cats'
 * Dr. Edward Howell: 'Enzyme Nutrition'
 * Vilhjalmur Stefansson: 'Cancer: Disease of civilization? An Anthropological and Historical Study' (Available at the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College)
 * William Campbell Douglass: 'The Milk of Human Kindness ---is not Pasteurized'