Paleo and the weight loss diets that history teaches us

Now that there is a lot of talk about the Paleo diet, which speculates on an ideal diet inspired by that of primitive men, wrongly considered healthy (so who can deny you?), A nice article that appeared on Slate lists the possible slimming diets that can be based on the same theoretical bases of the Paleo, that is: we find a historical epoch randomly little documented on the daily diet and let’s say that that population x in that historical period y ate like this and was fine.
The author of the article therefore suggests weight loss diets such as the Victorian orphan diet (starve like Oliver Twist), the diet of the Founding Fathers(you always eat like on Thanksgiving: turkey, apple pie, rhubarb sauce), Shakespeare’s diet (a ghost will watch over your portions), the Magician’s diet (eat as much and how you want, so much are you Merlin, one shot of wand and away), the diet of the Pharaoh etc.

The idea is nice. And it is terrible to think that a diet like Paleo (eat meat and fish as the basis of the diet, even several times a day; then vegetables and fruit, fat at will but not industrialized, nuts and hazelnuts, no dairy products, sugars, carbohydrates), who now has many proselytes, has a theoretical apparatus not unlike that which the author of the article invented. The Paleo in fact is based on these assumptions, but here we are not joking:
–the Paleo diet is the only approach that works with your genetics (yes, and based on what?)

– since free animals don’t get fat, we have to eat like free animals (which ones? how?)
– it was agriculture to bring us many diseases with cereals (so primitive man following the Paleolithic did the damage, I understand. Scientific evidence to support this thesis?)
– cereals and legumes to be edible require some technological process(ah, really?) or industrial (like, no. Preceramic Neolithic cereal processing industries and technologies are famous! In fact, in the photo of the article we see a very advanced technological tool for the industrial production of cereals!
) that all sentences, apart from the comments in parentheses, are true, and source Paleo diet sites . At this point, if we really want to invent a story to ennoble our food choices , I quote Shakespeare’s diet with a ghost of a dead king who tells me how much to eat.