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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I guess all those “Folsom Points” found means they had to be armed to sneak up on a plant.
Early humans ate what their environment best provided—meat and/or plants, and sometimes bugs!
Those who want us to go on a bug diet are just plain evil!
I think scientists will say whatever their paymaster tells them to say.
I’ve been on a Ketovore diet for 6 months and love it. About 95% beef, pork, eggs, and chicken with some light cooked non starchy veggies and some peanut butter. I always use lard, tallow, ghee, or butter to pan fry anything. I feel better and my moods and energy levels stay consistent instead of big spikes from carbs and/or sugar. I switched to tea from coffee because I can’t stand coffee without the creamer that has a lot of sugar in it.
My mind is consistently clearer because my brain is getting the needed fats and cholesterol it needs to function properly.
The ketovore diet is often called “The Proper Human” diet for good reason.
I’d say these scientists are full of the stuff that comes out the south end of a north bound horse.
Perfect
Rabbit food didn’t grow the human brain.
Mostly vegetarian?
So that’s why we have so many wooly mammoths running around in our backyards... Because we didn’t eat every single one of them we could find.
A man know his life is forfeit and that his actions are who he is, he will offer his life against challenges, women want to live forever and be comfortable doing it.
Have you ever tried “caveman” cooking? That’s what we call it when hubby throws meat directly on the hot charcoal. It really gives a nice “crust” to the meat. (Only use real lump charcoal for this method, not briquets.)
Just love the Far Side. I have the huge volumes of his work...he loved takeoffs on cavemen for some reason!
This is why commercial dog food is so bad for dogs. These foods are filled with carbs, which oxidizes to sugar in their bloodstream.
The best diet for dogs is a raw meat diet with bones. Cooking meat removes the vitamins dogs need. The bones and sinews help keep their teeth clean and gums and scent glands healthy. Their skin is less itchy. Healthy skin promotes healthy fur.
420,000 years ago....at least...
When I lived in Va, I ate fish most of the time...never used the salt shaker during the year I was there.
gotta wonder how caveman fried steak compares to chicken fried steak. anyone?
Some really hungry guy.
Assuming they were like every other nomadic or semi-nomadic group, they were awesome at trapping small animals — rabbits and whatnot, too.
He shot it with his re-curve bow and arrow.
It was injured so he ran up and stabbed it with a knife once or twice.
Pretty bad A$$ dude.
He was a very experienced big game hunter/survivalist.
It took place in the NW Territories of Canada just south of the Arctic Circle.
“Man found fire. The start of barbecue began.”
A study — based on observation of a frat bro intern who came up with the hypothesis, not joking — was the way to look for caves previously inhabited by Neanderthals and Denisovans and whatnot was looking to see if a cave had a flat area suitable for a BBQ.
This had a near perfect hit record.
Yeah, that lasted about 1 day and then they were eating mutton.
“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.”
You are correct. We evolved to eat anything we could kill or gather.
LOL it’s what they want us to believe their just mad because they are always sick with some thing and very ugly too.
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