Honestly, in the absence of autoimmune conditions that impose dietary restrictions, ANY diet that says that Homo Sapiens Sapiens, a species that is wildly successful in large part because we have spent the last six million or so years evolving to be opportunistic omnivores (and yes, that’s going back before any human species, to our common ancestor with chimpanzees, because chimps are also opportunistic omnivores and we both got that from our common ancestor) is not designed to eat __________, immediately trips my ‘bullshit’ alarms.
We can eat just about any damn thing we can shove in our faces and chew. If it’s toxic, we may be able to cook it so it isn’t and still shove it in our faces and extract nutrition from it. We’ll sure as hell try.
You are absolutely designed by millions of years of evolution to eat plants, animals, grains, fungi, whatever. ‘Original human diet’ my left asscheek. Show a Cro Magnon hunter a burger and fries and he’d be all over that shit.
“but Paaaaaleo is what hunter gatherers ate! You can’t prove it’s not! It’s not like we can ask them!”
…..Might be the Whitest thing anyone has ever said to me outside political discussion. I am a Native American. My people were hunter gatherers within living memory. I know what we ate and still eat when we have the chance. It DOES include regular amounts of seeds and grains
so no, Paleo isn’t Paleo.
YES THANK YOU
This is the other thing that rubs me wrong about “paleo” diets.
As you said, your people….and other groups of people right up until today…have practiced hunter gatherer lifestyles within living memory. Some groups still do. If you want to know what hunter gatherers eat, you can just ask them. And the answer is usually “Anything and everything in the area that’s edible, plant, fish, fungi, animal, nut, berry, fruit, root, vegetable, and seed.”
But nah these people would rather build their ‘paleo’ diet around a white cro magnon hunter power fantasy.
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