I don’t say that the Paleo diet is best, I’ve only written what the study says.

I think the Mediterranean diet is a light paleo diet and that the only way that the paleo diet is better then Med diet is for people with Diabetes type 2.

Scott

As to “fighting” over what’s best…Both are healthful diets, but the real goal should be for people to understand what is optimal. The Mediterranean Diet is more healthful than what most Americans are eating. But the real goal of any nutritionist or health advocate should be to tell people what is BEST, not what is “good enough”. Give people the optimal to shoot for, knowing that if they fall short, they’ll still be pretty darn good. It’s that old “Shoot for the moon, if you miss you’re still amongst the stars” thing.

So given that, I do think there should be studies comparing the Mediterranean Diet versus the Paleo Diet (in some variation). I think that it is important that if health advocates and the media are going to trumpet the MD as best, it should have been compared to all denominators, not just the lowest common one. If MD wins out over Paleo in well-controlled studies, I’ll tell people to follow it. I have no dog in this fight and my main goal is to educate myself. Until MD proves itself as something other than “pretty darn good and certainly better than that crap most people eat,” I’ll continue to push a Paleo diet, void of grains and dairy as the optimal. Our genes virtually dictate such a diet.

The thing about the MD is that it’s politically correct. Olive oil is monounsaturated and that’s PC. Whole grains are PC. Red meat isn’t PC. Ditching grains isn’t PC. The MD wins the media race only by virtue of it’s PC-ness.

Cheers
Scott

Are both healthy diets.

The thing that surprises me is the fact that people look for a diet only for weight loss without take care of over all health…their main goal is to appear to the others…health is secodary.

Health should be the main goal, weight loss is only a consequence of health