IOW, this is a crock of ****.
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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Q: How do you know if someone is a vegan?
A: They will tell you..................
Another lesson learned about true history indeed.
Thanks!
And if they are pale and look like you wouldn’t touch them or they you.
“I switched to tea from coffee because I can’t stand coffee without the creamer that has a lot of sugar in it.”
According to the Bible, the first humans and many after of them did not eat flesh. They ate plants and drank milk. (In the KJV, the Elizabethan English, all “food” was called “meat.”)
I suppose all those arrowheads, spear points and scraping tools were just jewelry then?
Fresh flesh requires fire for humans to consume - carrion does not.
You never know when you might come upon a field of wild parsnips and need some protection.................
... and in the New Testament, all meat is called ‘food’.........
Acts 10:13
I thought he'd win...hands down. Revealing the one weakness that early man did not have hanging over their heads.
Homesickness...the mental aspect. Which makes the show, a must-see...for me.
IOW, this is a crock of ****.
Actually studies over the past century indicate that hunter/gatherer societies only spend about 27 hours a week seeking food. Since they are not capitalists, they are not trying to have big surpluses, so the 40 your week is not their norm.
And game animals were plentiful, so they had no trouble finding stuff to eat................
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