Gentle readers, this has been bugging me ever since I came across The Primal Blueprint one afternoon at Barnes & Noble, so you are going to have to humor me while I rant.
The premise of the book is that for optimal health, we should go back to eating the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors did. The author talks about how Paleolithic people ate a wider variety of foods than we do now, and so lived longer, healthier lives.
Now I am no expert in Paleolithic history, but even I know that while our ancestors would have foraged a wide variety of plants and fruits in the warm months, they would have subsisted on very little over the winter and gone hungry during times of drought. They ate a great deal of something like large game when it was available, and a lot of something else like berries when they were available. They did not necessarily have much day-to-day variety. And they certainly did not buy expensive dietary supplements over the internet.
Here's another thing I know: I've lived quite a bit longer than the average person in the Paleolithic, and I've subsisted mostly on chocolate.
Another thing... They're all dead.
ReplyDelete... yeah, we all die, but their version of "human" never came back.