Who Started the Paleo Diet? The History of the Modern Caveman Movement
                                
                                
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                                In 2002, Dr. Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University, published his influential book, *The Paleo Diet*, officially popularizing the concept for the modern world. But tracing who started the paleo diet reveals a longer history, with important scientific and medical groundwork laid decades prior to Cordain's work.