Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians
July 28, 2012 1:40 AM Subscribe
"An entire class of self-help books recommends a return to the diets of our ancestors...big, bad, hunters, who supplemented meaty diets with the occasional berry “chaser.”...[But] which paleo diet should we eat? The one from twelve thousand years ago? A hundred thousand years ago? Forty million years ago? If we want to return to our ancestral diets, the ones we ate when most of the features of our guts were evolving, we might reasonably eat what our ancestors spent the most time eating during the largest periods of the evolution of our guts...fruits, nuts, and vegetables—especially fungus-covered tropical leaves." [via SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN BLOG]
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