We humans are what our ancestors ate

At least this is what Doctors Eaton and Konner wrote in their article “Paleolithic Nutrition,” published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 and resulted in one of the dieting bestsellers, the “Neanderthin” by Ray Audette. They concluded that the modern chronic diseases Ñ obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes, are the result of modern diets that are so radically different from the diet of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Now, however, our knowledge about the evolution of human nutrition has advanced and we know that there was no single, Paleolithic diet but was a much more flexible eating pattern resulted in a “omnivorous” nutrition make up. Studies of modern human populations traditionally living in “prehistoric” environments show that we humans are able to use a wide variety of diets. (more…)