I know this has gone all a bit off-piste but I think a paleo diet is a great place to start when addressing your own nutrition, or looking at fat loss or strength gains, or eating for health, or avoidance of certain foods and tweak it for your needs/lifestyle. As far as I understand the paleo movement as a whole and its history/development it has evolved from hardline/radical 'you can't be paleo unless you devour an entire leg of cow in one go' to the more moderate 'heh, if you can tolerate milk then guzzle it down, man' to the modern marketed 'aswell as my grass fed beef steak I munch on coconut milk protein shake with 10mg of added leucine and s*** loads of additives and food colouring and it makes me s**t strong'. Sitting nicely alongside the paleo movement is also the idea of evolutionary fitness and strength training and how best to optimise your 'own' genetic expression, or that of humans generally. That cavemen/woman didn't exercise on a treadmill or use a machine for fitness and strength is analogous to the fact that they didn't eat bucket loads of processed food either. But we are simply not living in caves anymore, we have modern stressors to contend with and the constant bombardment of product advertising and other stuff to deal with that the idea of living in a cave and hunting a few antelopes sounds far more appealling than a 21st century modern lifestyle. I guess we'd all like a more simple life. And we do, thanks to Pavel for his teachings. The rules of strength have never really changed much, nor has human nutrition.
I'm 50 now and live in the uk. When I was a kid, no one was fat, it was pre the low fat, anti-saturated fat is the devil's sperm and coconuts were banned era and pre computer games, when playing was an 8 hour a day thing. I had my first bowl of pasta on a trip to Italy when I was 19. Never knew what a pizza was, nor a bagel. There were no macdonald's. The science, we now know, of this new low fat dawn, was flawed and a massive increase of food products steamrolled into our homes. This was my diet back then. I was an athletic, strong, sporty kid: hundreds of bananas, coconuts (bizarrely loved them as a kid, no one else did), liver and bone marrow once a week (cuz it was cheap), traditional sunday roast, salmon once a week, cheap old tins of spam and pototoes, ice cream now and then, custard, buckets of nuts, everything cooked in lard, buttery toast, pasties (a westcountry pastry of cheap meat, pototoes), the odd choc bar and gallons of creamy, full fat milk. In short, with the exception of some missing greens (no kid likes spinach and broccoli although I did eat sprouts), not far off paleo with carb back loading, a paleo for athletes mix for good measure. So you don't need to go back 10,000 years ago at all, 35 years ago is fine.
Obviously I didn't know that at the time, nor did my parents, nor their parents. You ate what was given to you, what was on the table and got on with being a kid. With the exception of the imported coconuts. bananas and nuts everything else was local and cheap. What I've read and understand now about nutrition and science - kickstarted by the paleo movement - is that there are many,many diets suited to us. Cross-cultural studies, traditional foods, anthropological studies all point to the same thing - food. Proper unadulterated food, most the the time. The caveman thing is just that 'a thing'. It could be an eskimo thing too, all whale blubber. Call it what you will, plants and animals or God's palate, to get back to the religious 'thing'.