Paleo Diet Debunked: Ancient Humans Ate Plants, Study Shows

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 19 January 2025 | https://www.sciencealert.com/

[RomanSoldier19]

Claims that we ought to subscribe to a low-carb, high-protein 'paleo diet' are typically based on assertions our ancestors avoided complicated plant processing in favor of simpler meals consisting of meats, nuts, fruit, and raw vegetables.

"...nonsense ..."

[RomanSoldier19]

Earliest discovered cave painting

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[BobL]

“Ancient Humans Ate Plants, Study Shows”

Fake News. If ancient humans ate plants, we’d have 4 stomachs, just as cows do.

[BipolarBob]

I eat like I have four stomachs.

[Jeff Chandler]

I enjoy tripe, too.

[laplata]

Fake News. If ancient humans ate plants, we’d have 4 stomachs, just as cows do.

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If they couldn’t find any game for meat, yer damned right they ate some plants. And so would you.

We eat plants. A question for you: Why don’t we have 4 stomachs?

[TheThirdRuffian]

Paleo is plants. It’s literally just not processed foods and grains.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Same reason pigs don't.

Because we are omnivores.

[BobL]

“We eat plants. A question for you: Why don’t we have 4 stomachs?”

Because we figured out how to catch animals and got everything we needed from them...one stomach is enough for carnivores.

[frank ballenger]

Obama: I told ya’ so. While I was eating arugula and a plate of soft, spongy white tofu, you guys were ruining your health. I grew up eating vegetables and fruits in Kenya, uh, uh, I mean Hawaii. Pineapples, yeah, I remember now. Actually I never ate any Sukuma Wiki -—that Kenyan Sautéed Collard Greens dish I’ve only read about. As an adult.

[frank ballenger]

Jerry Nadler. Oh, great. I’d have to recover from three more laparoscopic duodenal switch surgeries. One was bad enough.

[Red Badger]

That’s why all those animals are on the cave walls........

[RedMonqey]

Our molars are made to grind food like nuts and grains down so they can be digested.
I thought this was “settled science”?

[dfwgator]

If you think about, depending where you lived there were different kinds of food available.

In the colder areas, where plants didn’t grow, meat was the only food available. So our bodies can handle either kind of diet.

[BobL]

“That’s why all those animals are on the cave walls”

Very true - I’ve never heard of a vegetable arrangement being on a cave war.

[Deaf Smith]

The West was not won eating salad.

[Jonty30]

Where are the salads?

[Jonty30]

Most of them simply ate what was available and let the body draw out the nutrients.

[one guy in new jersey]

and the canines

[N. Theknow]

The Rise and Fall of the Romaine Empite

[JayGalt]

They think we are stupid...