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That advice has a Michael Pollan (eat food, mostly plants, not too much) or Paleo Diet vibe to it. Perhaps a better term would be closer to what we would have e
by aggie 8y ago
That advice has a Michael Pollan (eat food, mostly plants, not too much) or Paleo Diet vibe to it. Perhaps a better term would be closer to what we would have encountered through most of the evolutionary history of our digestive system. In that time, nature hasn't generally been full of fatty meat. I don't know if that's actually true or if the theory of the diet is correct, but it is intuitive.
- vibrato 8y agoNature has been full of fatty meat until we killed it all and had to invent agriculture.
- scottlocklin 8y agoNow there's someone who has never been hunting or fishing. Animals don't tend to get real fat in nature; you need to raise them on a farm for that. People can actually die of "rabbit starvation" from eating lots of wild rabbit meat without enough grease and carbs from something else.
- int_19h 8y agoThat depends a lot on the animals. Plenty of fat in a whale, for example, and societies that depend on whaling (or hunting other cetaceans) usually consume it in large quantities. Conversely, rabbit is one of the most lean game animals out there.