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A few rare souls have gone off to the wilderness to live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Of course, Paleo bands were highly sociable, and it would be impossible to replicate Paleo society today; but in the wilderness one naturally eats a Paleo diet.

Such a soul was Dick Proenneke, a carpenter, mechanic, and naturalist who retired at age 51 to live alone in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Preserve. He remained in the wilderness until age 82, when he returned to civilization. He died at age 86 in 2003.

Proenneke kept a journal and took video footage of himself, some of which appeared on US public television as the film Alone in the Wilderness.  Youtube has a collection of this video. Here is Disc 1 Part 1:

P.S.: If you do live a Paleo lifestyle, don’t do your hunting on the Hanford nuclear reservation.

It’s no surprise to students of diet that none of the long-lived monsters eat wheat.

Vampires, of course, live for centuries, and their diet resembles the traditional diet of the Masai. Both groups, indeed, are known for their teeth; like vampires, the Masai rarely get cavities.

There are, to be sure, some monsters with a predilection for sweets. They tend to be short, often barely three feet tall; and their lifespan seems to be short. Often, a sweet-toothed monster is never seen again after a single night spent gorging on sweets.

In searching the web for information on monster diets, I came across this song, which I take to be a celebration of monsters’ favorite way of preparing “safe starches.” Enjoy!

Frostie the Cockatoo has a workout video: