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Of course, but we have a much clearer idea of what sustains health than ancient civilizations. I agree, a variety is your best bet. But if better than X is no

Of course, but we have a much clearer idea of what sustains health than ancient civilizations. I agree, a variety is your best bet. But if better than X is not optimal, where X is the standard diet and the varied vegetarian diet is the alternative - what's the other option?

Evgeny 16y ago
Of course, but we have a much clearer idea of what sustains health than ancient civilizations. I'm not so sure about that. I usually offer two of my favourite links that describe well how the human health deteriorated when agriculture became widely adopted. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology-at-origins-of.html http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology... http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/mistake_jared_diamond.pdf http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m... I think that paleolithic diet is more natural - one can eat pretty much all fruits and vegetable but does not have to avoid animal products. The idea is to avoid 'neolithic' foods - those that came into human diet less than 10-20K years ago: processed foods, sugars, grains etc.