From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 12:43:19 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Is the question how much meat is healthy in
> the human diet?
No, that is not the question if the subject is Paleolithic diets. This is a
very important point.
The real question is "What is the diet to which we are best genetically
adapted?"
The assumptions underlying paleodiet theory are 1) the basic principles of
evolutionary theory are correct (e.g., natural selection, adaptation) and 2)
modern nutritional science is incomplete and fraught with contradictions
(e.g., the debates between conventional nutritionists about low-carb vs
low-fat diets are not even close to resolution.)
The conclusion then is that evolutionary science is a more reliable guide to
making diet choices than nutritional science. For example if humans spent a
few million years without dairy and only 10,000 years with dairy then it's
likely that humans are not very well adapted to dairy. If the dairy industry
disagrees then they need to explain how we survived for approximately 4
million years without dairy while having larger and stronger bones. The
burden of proof is on them, because the *default* diet is natural and
paleolithic.
-gts
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