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From Chef To TV Star
- Pete Evans rose from chef to TV star via cookbooks and My Kitchen Rules, becoming a beloved media figure.
- His charm and good looks helped launch a mainstream celebrity chef career before his health claims emerged.
The Paleolithic Pitch Is Simplified Nostalgia
- The paleo diet sells a tidy nostalgia: 'eat like prehistoric humans' as a health fix.
- That pitch collapses under biological diversity and limited archaeological evidence.
Paleo's Troubled Origins
- Early paleo origins include dated, problematic politics like eugenic rhetoric from 1975.
- Contemporary paleo borrows that origin story yet often distances itself from its explicit white supremacist past.