Richard Nikoley - Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet

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• Born & raised in Reno, Nevada. I attended and graduated from a small, religious-oriented private high school. Went on to attend a first year of college at a religious-oriented school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I have had no interest in religious matters whatsoever for more than 25 years and don't plan on doing so again.

  "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." - Theodosius Dobzhansky

  I Graduated Oregon State University in 1984 with a bachelor's in Business Administration and two minor courses of study in mathematics / computer science, and naval science.

  I was commissioned in the US Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) immediately upon graduation from OSU. After some 8 months attending various schools in San Diego, CA, I traveled off to Yokosuka, Japan to join my first ship, the USS REEVES (CG-24), where I served from 1984-1987 as the Assistant Missiles Officer, First Lieutenant, and then finally, Electrical Officer.

  After those first three years in Japan, I crossed the pier for another two years, joining the U.S. SEVENTH FLEET embarked aboard USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19). From 1988-1989 I was both the Assistant Fleet Scheduling Officer and the Assistant Logistics Officer. I managed a fuel budget of $180 million.

  I left Japan after five years and headed to Monterey, California, where I was a student at the Defense Language Institute for the latter half of 1989. Upon successful completion of the French language course, I headed to Toulon, France, where from late 1989 - early 1992 I took up duties an exchange officer with the French Navy: first aboard the FNS COLBERT (C 611), and later, the FNS DUQUESNE (D 603), both as the Navigator.

  I left the US Navy in 1992 and returned to the U.S., San Francisco Bay Area. After a few false starts in entrepreneurial endeavors, I started a company in my bedroom in the summer of 1993 that evolved into what is today, Provanta Corp. I still regularly harass a modest cabal of employees.

  Activity wise, I took up the sport of Hang-Gliding in 1996, and powered aircraft in 2005. Though I've soloed in the powered plane, I've yet to complete licensing requirements but plan to someday. I also fly sailplanes now and then.

  In 2011 I celebrated my 10 year anniversary with my wife, Beatrice.

  Book edited by Richard Nikoley

If youve been watching or reading the news over the past couple of years, you may have noticed references to bizarre new terms: the Paleo diet, the Caveman diet, and the Evolutionary diet. Perhaps youve seen variations on these themes that that seem familiar.

What does the popularity of these primitive diets mean?

It means a couple of things. The most important thing it means is that something is wrong. Youd think we were in the Golden Age of sound, peer-reviewed medical, diet, and nutrition advice; its hard to go a day without seeing some news piece telling us what to eat and how to exercise. But for the past years people in the United States have generally become fatter, weaker, and less healthy. They have become less virile as males, less sexually attractive as females.

Pictures of folks from decades past show that they were all pretty lean. Do you imagine they may have been starving? I dont think so. Instead, might it be possible that the advice weve been given over the last four decadesadvice couched as Dietary Guidelines for All Americanshas been completely wrong?

Have you ever wondered why one guy can eat like a horse, stay perfectly lean, and live to age 90, while one girl eats like a bird, seems to always be hungry and miserable, and yet carries around 50 pounds of fat that would only be necessary if she were about to go into hibernation like a bear for a few months? You can reverse the gender, because examples abound.

I think women and men should be hot and enjoy that status for as long as possible. Isnt desiring each other what most fundamentally advances the human species? I think everyone should have the opportunity to jump, climb, run, and play to be active like the animalswe are for as long as nature allows. I think people should be aware of the adverse health effects of eating processed grains and sugars, and equally aware of the fact that theres a different way to eat that can prevent and even cure the diseases of civilization.

A common objection to my pointing to governmental and institutional dietary guidelines as being behind the obesity epidemic is this: maybe its that Americans arent actually following the Dietary Advice for all Americans, as proclaimed from on high. Theyre eating whatever they want, primarily junk food.