Neanderthals diet: 80% meat, 20% vegetables

ScienceDaily ^ | March 14, 2016 | Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum

[flaglady47]

Trump eats lots of meat and very little vegetables and he seems to be healthy as a horse.

[Defiant]

Why yes. It appears to be a cumquat.

[napscoordinator]

I’m cool with that but what was their life expectancy? 30?

[central_va]

Life without beer. Intolerable

[Arthur McGowan]

The Paleo Diet seems to be well-founded in scientific data.

But the argument from what the “cavemen” ate is fallacious. Should be live in caves? Should we be wearing skins instead of cloth? Should we go without doctors, mathematicians, engineers, electricians?

I mean, what basis is there for the belief that the Neanderthals, who otherwise lived in what we would not even dignify with the name “grinding poverty,” were eating the healthiest diet possible?

BTW: I eat meat, cheese, fish, and non-starchy veggies. No white potatoes, no grains, no legumes.

[Mike Darancette]

You need garnish for the rino burgers.

[Grimmy]

The fur on the woolies made for good roughage. Even cavemen had to keep regular, you know?

[To Hell With Poverty]

Interesting about the lion and wolf bones. Wonder if they had evidence of having been butchered, or if they were there because the lions and wolves were eating the Neanderthals.

Also, wouldn’t it be a hoot if it were discovered that Neanderthals were the actual domesticators of wolves into dogs.

“It could happen!” — Judy Tenuta

[SunkenCiv]

It wouldn’t surprise me.

[SunkenCiv]

And the really big rolls.

[Gator113]

So is mine...UGG