Unless you've recently watched one of your own children starve to death and die then you are not on the Paleo diet. Before the Industrial Revolution (and linked

Unless you've recently watched one of your own children starve to death and die then you are not on the Paleo diet. Before the Industrial Revolution (and linked Agricultural Revolution) humans spent roughly 10% of their lives facing famine conditions. This would typically be concentrated into a few famine years, or perhaps a recurring dry season, depending on where you lived. But that averages out to going 3 days a month without any food. So unless you do a complete 3 day fast each month, then you are not on the Paleo diet. It is known there are many health benefits to fasting. Why is that? It is likely that, after tens of millions of years of surviving episodes of famine, our bodies simply leave certain vital tasks to moments of famine, and therefore if you don't inflict famine on yourself, your body is going without an important reset which used to imposed on us by outside circumstances.