The Palaeolithic Diet

[poliphilo]

Ailz talked to her doctor about her low-carb diet. He was all in favour. He thinks we should eat the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors did- lots of green stuff, nuts and fruit in season, meat when and if- because that's the sort of diet our bodies are designed for.

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[airstrip.livejournal.com]

As one person pointed out, there's been a lot of evolution since that period. It really only takes a few generations to complete a genetic sweep, imparting a gene on every member of our species in breeding range.

The reason "Paleo diets" work so well is that they generally lower your carbohydrate intake. However, I'd be skeptical of anyone who insisted on greatly reduced meat intake based on "how we're designed". Pigs (in Europe and China) along with sheep, cows and goats (almost everywhere) were kind of critical domesticates because the turned unfarmable land into viable grazing grounds. That's been true for far too long not to have the relevant genes sweep the population.