Obesity and its consequences are not to be ignored. Daily exercise, fruit, vegetables, grains, dairy and meat works best for me. I don’t eat paleo.
Here’s the way I put it in my most recent post.
“I think it’s important to mention that humans aren’t fixed. We are still evolving. This raises certain questions as to how we should live our lives.
For example, should we eat paleo because that is our ‘true diet?’ That is the diet that we evolved with over most of the past 7 million years? Maybe.
But would eating paleo be best given that it’s 2024. The Paleolithic era is over and we might do better adapting to our current situation? I suppose my answer to this question is in what I eat. I don’t follow a strict paleo diet. But this is an example of a religious question.
What is the right answer to a religious question? It depends on you.“
Yes our ancestors were eating meat but their average life expectancy was less than 40 - not old enough to develop heart disease.
In general, ancestral diets are not necessarily good indicators of healthy eating behaviors.
See here: https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/should-we-eat-like-hunter-gatherers
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Obesity and its consequences are not to be ignored. Daily exercise, fruit, vegetables, grains, dairy and meat works best for me. I don’t eat paleo.
Here’s the way I put it in my most recent post.
“I think it’s important to mention that humans aren’t fixed. We are still evolving. This raises certain questions as to how we should live our lives.
For example, should we eat paleo because that is our ‘true diet?’ That is the diet that we evolved with over most of the past 7 million years? Maybe.
But would eating paleo be best given that it’s 2024. The Paleolithic era is over and we might do better adapting to our current situation? I suppose my answer to this question is in what I eat. I don’t follow a strict paleo diet. But this is an example of a religious question.
What is the right answer to a religious question? It depends on you.“