Originally Posted by
Poopadoop
The logic behind the Paleo diet goes something like "In olde days, primitive man didn't eat processed foods. Processed foods are bad for you. Therefore they must have had a better diet overall. Here's some stuff we imagine they might have ate. You should eat that too."
1. There's no detailed evidence on what primitive man actually ate. They had teeth like ours, so they must have been omnivorous. Based on what we can gather from studying primitive tribes today, they spent a lot of their time looking for food and ate whatever they could get their hands on, either plants or animals. They didn't have farms, so they didn't eat a lot of grains. So, they ate fruits, nuts, vegetables, and when they could catch something and kill it, meat. Maybe they ate a lot of meat, maybe not. No-one fucking knows.
2. There's no detailed evidence about what kind of health primitive man enjoyed. For all we know, there lives were probably brutal, nasty and short. Primitive tribes today have one thing in common; there aren't a lot of old people around. At least none of them are obese.
3. It's impossible to combine the lack of knowledge about diet with the lack of knowledge about health and come to any conclusions about what is or isn't a healthy diet based on primitive man. It's all just fad bullshit. Really.