Ugh. The first 5-10 pages of the Paleo thread relived...
Hello complete proteins! I'm sure cavemen totally knew about essential amino acids and figured out in their chemistry labs what plant combinations to put together in order to get the proper nutrient profile.
Or more likely they just ate meat
when available because Occam's Razor works especially well with less developed brains.
She argues that our bodies need Vitamin C and it only comes from plants, yet somehow the Eskimos survived with almost zero plant based Vitamin C and didn't get scurvy. Wonder where that came from? Maybe it's because you can get Vitamin C from UNCOOKED meat.
Because after we began eating meat
our brains grew and we started using tools and did not need sharp carnivore teeth teeth anymore. Oh, we also shared saliva with dogs and hyenas, but hey, no adaptions to eating meat, right?
Oh my god, there's evidence that some populations might have eaten seeds and grain during the
final 1% of what we've, way after the fact, labeled the "paleolithic era". OMG totally not paleo!
Obviously there's going to be some overlap between learning how to process and eat a food in the wild and learning how to cultivate that food. The date we set for the end of the paleolithic era (10,000 years ago or whatever), is somewhat arbitrary and is going to be different for different civilizations.
We try to group things into compartmentalized categories and try to make sharp delineations because it helps our brains to comprehend things, but it's not the way reality works. In reality, of course there's going to be a gradual change into eating different types of food. We're not going to suddenly change overnight into planting and caring for some crop we know nothing about. To even know what seeds are or how they work we must have already been in intimate contact with these plants.
A nitpick based of some totally insignificant detail that
completely misses the point.
True. Yeah, maybe we bred tomatoes to have no toxins. It just means that we can actually eat more of them, instead of....oh, animal products. Maybe it's not the exact thing they ate, but it's like something that they could have eaten. The point of paleo is to eat more "like" a caveman, not literally eat million year old food chewed up from their mouths.
They chose foods that allowed them to survive and flourish. I'm sure there are plenty of tribes/civs that died out from poor nutrition. If the food allowed them to flourish and survive in the most dire conditions it is probably good, and probably meets the standards our body needs in order to thrive without food abundance, supplemental nutrition, and modern medicine. Certain types of foods had 2 million years of testing to be either be found healthy, or to be adapted to become more healthy.
Obviously. And if they had an abundance of pigs in that region they easily would have eaten them.
Oh, you mean
the same fucking things that paleo diet proponents are saying????
