Caveman Nostalgia

Loyal AH reader Andrew MacLeod sends this along I have nothing to add, except that "Caveman Nostalgia" is a good band name. 

I haven't seen you comment on this yet so I'm wagering that you might have missed it.  The Current on August 3 had on an author/professor named Loren Cordain (not sure on the spelling of that) who is a leading advocate of the caveman diet.  It's the usual...humans are designed to be outdoors eating fresh "real" foods and our lack of that has brought on the bulk of our collective health problems blah blah blah.  What it boiled down to was "Eat fresh food and you'll be healthier."  Earthshattering.

But the best part was the interview at the end with a biology professor from UC Riverside (Marlene something...Zuck?) who's writing a book about "paleo-fantasies."  She's fairly critical of this odd caveman nostalgia that's sprung up recently.  Choice comment:  "If they could have, would our hunter-gatherer ancestors have been longing for the days before bipedalism?"