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The Top 10 Diets of 2013 Are All Useless (Except to Book Publishers)

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Google’s trending diets of 2013 reflect an ever growing trend in the way we eat now: a distrust of the way we eat now. The problem is, they’re practically useless.

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The results are in and Homo habilis, our primate forebear, has won another round.

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Yes, at number one in the year’s top ten trending diet searches on Google stands the Paleo diet, a hunter-and-gatherer sort of hominid approach to dining that re-acquaints us with the Wisdom of the Caveman.

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