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And for all your bro-dieters out there eating a "paleo" diet, realize that our Paleolithic friends ate mostly plants. The Hadza tribe is one of our last living

And for all your bro-dieters out there eating a "paleo" diet, realize that our Paleolithic friends ate mostly plants. The Hadza tribe is one of our last living examples and their gut biome is amazing. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/24/545631521/is-the-secret-to-a-healthier-microbiome-hidden-in-the-hadza-diet https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/24/5456315... https://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-microbiome/ https://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-micr...

causi 4y ago
That would depend on your ancestry. If you're European, yes. If you're, say, Inuit, your ancestors ate mostly meat and fat.
pc86 4y ago
This seems pretty dismissive of a diet that - like all diets - has some idiotic and vocal adherents, but consists basically of "don't eat processed food or added sugar."
- shadowfox 4y ago
  > but consists basically of "don't eat processed food or added sugar." Paleo goes a bit beyond that, to be fair.
  - 7speter 4y ago
    The last I checked (maybe 6 years ago), the paleo diet strongly encouraged adherents to eat greens, berries, and seeds.
samatman 4y ago
The only thing we know Paleolithic people ate a lot of is meat. Paleolithic archaeological sites are full of marrow-scraped bones and the stone tools used to kill and butcher. Paleolithic teeth have little of the damage associated with eating grit from ground grains. We have such remarkable discoveries as a building made entirely of mammoth skulls. The Hadza are a modern people, and modern hunter-gatherers have been pushed to the fringes. Early English and French explorers documented the diets of the North American people they encountered: they ate a lot of meat, growing the Three Sisters as a supplement to a diet heavy in game and fish. It was the Neolithic in which population pressure forced people to start eating grain, and eventually growing it. They immediately became shorter and their teeth started falling out.
- mstipetic 4y ago
  Some did some didn’t. You can’t claim something for all Paleolithic peoples across all climates and regions
- zikduruqe 4y ago
  > The only thing we know Paleolithic people ate a lot of is meat. > Paleolithic archaeological sites are full of marrow-scraped bones and the stone tools used to kill and butcher. That's only because all the archaeologic evidence is preserved in bones and tools. All if not most of the plant based evidence has been reclaimed by nature. There are some new discoveries surrounding preserved pollens that are showing how early hominids had plants in their camps. > We have such remarkable discoveries as a building made entirely of mammoth skulls. That's because all the wooden based structures didn't survive. We should quit calling it the Stone Age and call it the Wood Age, because their stone tools were used to build wooden structures (along with butchering critters).
  - samatman 4y ago
    Thank you for confirming that "realize that our Paleolithic friends ate mostly plants" is not something we know, that we only have evidence that they ate a lot of meat, and that you knew this to be the case, so I have to ask: why did you state something you know to be untrue?
    - zikduruqe 4y ago
      I never said Grok was vegan. Maybe I should have worded it better... "realize that our Paleolithic friends ate more plants than we were lead to believe"
  - majkinetor 4y ago
    You can also see proof in the form of bone content - it also shows that paleolithic people ate a lot of meat and that no single vegan has been found so far...

causi 4y ago

That would depend on your ancestry. If you're European, yes. If you're, say, Inuit, your ancestors ate mostly meat and fat.

pc86 4y ago

This seems pretty dismissive of a diet that - like all diets - has some idiotic and vocal adherents, but consists basically of "don't eat processed food or added sugar."

shadowfox 4y ago
> but consists basically of "don't eat processed food or added sugar." Paleo goes a bit beyond that, to be fair.
- 7speter 4y ago
  The last I checked (maybe 6 years ago), the paleo diet strongly encouraged adherents to eat greens, berries, and seeds.

samatman 4y ago

The only thing we know Paleolithic people ate a lot of is meat. Paleolithic archaeological sites are full of marrow-scraped bones and the stone tools used to kill and butcher. Paleolithic teeth have little of the damage associated with eating grit from ground grains. We have such remarkable discoveries as a building made entirely of mammoth skulls. The Hadza are a modern people, and modern hunter-gatherers have been pushed to the fringes. Early English and French explorers documented the diets of the North American people they encountered: they ate a lot of meat, growing the Three Sisters as a supplement to a diet heavy in game and fish. It was the Neolithic in which population pressure forced people to start eating grain, and eventually growing it. They immediately became shorter and their teeth started falling out.

mstipetic 4y ago
Some did some didn’t. You can’t claim something for all Paleolithic peoples across all climates and regions
zikduruqe 4y ago
> The only thing we know Paleolithic people ate a lot of is meat. > Paleolithic archaeological sites are full of marrow-scraped bones and the stone tools used to kill and butcher. That's only because all the archaeologic evidence is preserved in bones and tools. All if not most of the plant based evidence has been reclaimed by nature. There are some new discoveries surrounding preserved pollens that are showing how early hominids had plants in their camps. > We have such remarkable discoveries as a building made entirely of mammoth skulls. That's because all the wooden based structures didn't survive. We should quit calling it the Stone Age and call it the Wood Age, because their stone tools were used to build wooden structures (along with butchering critters).
- samatman 4y ago
  Thank you for confirming that "realize that our Paleolithic friends ate mostly plants" is not something we know, that we only have evidence that they ate a lot of meat, and that you knew this to be the case, so I have to ask: why did you state something you know to be untrue?
  - zikduruqe 4y ago
    I never said Grok was vegan. Maybe I should have worded it better... "realize that our Paleolithic friends ate more plants than we were lead to believe"
- majkinetor 4y ago
  You can also see proof in the form of bone content - it also shows that paleolithic people ate a lot of meat and that no single vegan has been found so far...