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comment by jleopold
jleopold  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trying to Apply Stoicism to a Primal Lifestyle

I'm thinking you may have taken the primal part a little bit too seriously, but you did manage to bring up most of the major criticism of the fad. Personally, I was more surprised by the attempt to reconcile the two approaches than really awed by idea. There are better primal bloggers out there, who focus more on looking at parts of past lifestyles, even just to the 1940s, for ways to live healthier. I mean, there is probably something there, because it seems that the incidence rates of every major disease I can think of, from Lyme to cancer, have increased in that period. But for some reason, likely marketing, Mark has managed to gain a much larger following than those likely more worthy writers.