Posted on 01/07/2025 9:06:01 AM PST by Red Badger
The Caveman Diet, also known as the Paleo Diet, is a weight-loss craze where calorie-counters pick foods they think early humans may have eaten.
For most followers, this means a meat-heavy diet.
But a new study suggests that if you truly want to eat like a caveman, you should be steering clear of red meat.
Contrary to popular belief, researchers from Bar-Ilan University say that early humans were not solely focused on animal protein.
Instead, cavemen were mostly vegetarians whose diets featured plant-based foods including acorns, cereals, legumes, and aquatic plants.
'This discovery underscores the importance of plant foods in the evolution of our ancestors,' said Dr Hadar Ahituv, lead author of the study.
'We now understand that early hominids gathered a wide variety of plants year-round, which they processed using tools made from basalt.
'This discovery opens a new chapter in the study of early human diets and their profound connection to plant-based foods.'
Cavemen have long been portrayed as voracious meat eaters.
But in their new study, the team set out to understand what early humans truly ate.
The researchers focused on basalt tools found at an ancient settlement site near Gesher Benot Ya'akov.
This site, located on the shores of the ancient Hula Lake, includes over 20 layers of settlement, fossilised animal remains, and plant remnants.
During their analysis, the researchers discovered starch grains approximately 780,000 years old on the basalt tools.
'These include acorns, grass grains, water chestnuts, yellow water lily rhizomes, and legume seeds,' the researchers wrote in their study, published in PNAS.
According to the experts, this indicates that plants played a central role in the cave man diet.
As for why our ancient ancestors prioritised these foods, the researchers suggest that it may be linked to the evolution of the human brain.
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“Scientists slam the Caveman Diet”
Got to keep their masters in Big Pharma happy...
Didn’t live too long did they?
Yeah, well, we managed to hunt mammoths and other fauna to extinction, so we *clearly* weren’t eating just salads...
I am sure cavemen wanted to eat meat—the hard part was obtaining it.
if they couldnt kill something
yes they had a salad
Simple tests on bones, especially teeth, can tell them what that person ate. So this is just woke stuff.
another fake studly design to get you to eat plant an bugs as food.
If we ate just plants, why are we ‘evolved’ to eat meat? Where else can people find the necessary nutrients and protein? Certainly not plants.
We still age our beef.
Man found fire. The start of barbecue began.
Exactly.
Highly misleading. Ancient man gathered SMALL amounts of acorns and aquatic plants. Thhe former are indihestible in any sofnificant amount and the latter arent common. You had to live. near a coastline with plant life. Legumes and cereals from where? These are agrocultiral products, pre caveman. hard to access and cannot be digested without cooking. Some legumes would even be poisonous raw.
The real takeaway is here yeah plant foods IN SMALL AMOUNTS. Meat being the most inportant food for protein and possibly even calories.
Any Bible believer could tell you the first humans were vegetarians.
Vegetarian = BAD HUNTER
Acorns are edible if you boil them several times to remove the tannins that make them bitter.................Or you run them through a pig first.............
‘Nuff said!........................
Yes a super ager made it to thirty. 😏
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