winstonw wrote:C_C, the trouble starts when exercise junkies unfamiliar with the Krebs cycle, liver and kidney function etc, start googling 'diet', and take macro percentages literally, no matter their energy spend.
I believe that I already mentioned that there is no such thing as a recommended macro percentages in Paleo. It's quite variable depending on the individual. And I'm not about to defend people who "start googling 'diet', and take macro percentages literally, no matter their energy spend". You get what you reap. It's a bit like the people who use the wikipedia page on Paleo as their only reference, and then can't even manage to quote that correctly.
The 2g/kg of protein a day limit is fairly well known. I've actually tried to eat that much protein when I started weight lifting. It's a lot. I wasn't comfortable with that much and scaled it back. I also have a friend who rides track at a national level. They are totally into Paleo and are all
steak monsters.
winstonw wrote:And you better sort out with Zynster whether Joe Friel knows what dinkum Paleo is.
Or you could try reading the actual book, in which he does recommend a low fat diet. In his defence, this book came out 8 years ago when Paleo was still rather new, and there was a lot of fear of litigation in going against the established belief that saturated fats are bad.
Now he's all for it.