Paleo “Twinkies” Cause Cavities

Did you hear the NPR story about Paleo cavities yesterday? The take away is at the end: “There’s not one kind of paleo diet,” Humphrey says. “I think wherever people lived, they had to make best of the wild food resources available to them….”

To say that the “paleo diet” isn’t as healthy as people are making it out to be, because one small group in a particular area ate acorns, is shortsighted and unfortunate. There are many good things about the “paleo diet”. Mainly, eating less sugar and more unprocessed, straight from the ground kinds of food. They liken the acorn to the “Paleo twinkie.” It’s well known twinkies aren’t good for you, but twinkies are better than starving. That’s probably what these cave dwellers had to eat, so they ate it.
Scientists have found other ancient skulls with healthy teeth, so it’s obvious that diet effects dental health. That was true in the past, and still is. Eat less sugar, get less cavities. Paleo or otherwise.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/06/260185944/looks-like-the-paleo-diet-wasnt-so-hot-for-ancient-hunters-teeth