The Paleo Diet

A Good Nutrition Book — And the Bad Advice That Inspired It

The Consistency Project, 1 October 2026. The book comes up at 17 min 42 sec in.

EC mentions having read Lorraine Cordain's paleo book during her early years of exploring paleo eating. She criticizes it for citing studies claiming beans were harmful that turned out to examine populations eating raw beans or to use rat models—the kind of cherry-picked, methodologically weak evidence she later came to recognize as characteristic of nutrition misinformation.

Listen to this episode ↗︎