A Modern Stone Age Family Indeed

To the outside world, the Flintstones appeared to be enjoying a perfectly Paleo lifestyle. They ate eggs:

And meat:

They moved around a lot:

And lifted heavy things:

But brace yourselves: Mounting evidence suggests that the Flintstones weren't, in fact, as Paleo-compliant as we have been led to believe. Believe ir or not, research indicates that they ingested all sorts of NEOLITHIC AGENTS OF DISEASE!

Consider, for example, this!





And this!

And this!

And this!

And this!

And this!

And this!



Let's hope Captain Caveman was better about hewing closer to an ancestral diet. Otherwise, I swear I'm going to stop watching (as many) Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Link Dump: Lunchtime Edition

• The latest version of the ever-unhelpful USDA Dietary Guidelines (“just eat less!”) are out. Once again, they’re dumb. Once again, Guidelines demonize saturated fat and sodium, but seem to have no problem with carbs despite the USDA's own acknowledgment that Americans are stuffing themselves silly with the stuff.

• (Psst: Saturated fat ain't the enemy. Get yourself a tub of coconut oil and see.)

• But no one pays any attention to the Dietary Guidelines, anyway.

• We ‘muricuns prefer to get our dietary advice from people like Pepsico's CEO, who announced today that "Doritos are not bad for you" and cola must be healthy because it was "discovered in a pharmacy."So true!

• But just Doritos and Pepsi make a great lunch combo doesn’t mean you should break into vending machines. Thankfully, technology firms are already investing resources into safeguarding our nation's most precious natural resources: Funyons and Dr. Pepper.

• So if you don't have enough change jangling around in your pocket, skip the vending machine and go get yourself some ice cream nachos and/or ice cream bread.

• (On second thought, please don’t.)

• Speaking of ice cream bread, the Latest in Paleo podcast just launched. Subscribe already.

Okay. I'm off to get me a big grass-fed burger patty topped with ham, bacon, and a fried egg.

What Bread Is Good For:

Of course, as Melissa McEwen points out, it's likely that bread was originally borne of booze, which makes this photo doubly awesome.
(Source: Buzzfeed)