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I would point anyone who subscribes to any of the several current fad diets to this one: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php#a8 http

• darkchasma 13y ago
  What fad diets are you referring to?
  • prawks 13y ago
    Perhaps Paleo, but I'm not the parent.
  • mjt0229 13y ago
    Any diet that is based on an unsubstantiated claim that "humans have not evolved to digest X" where X is something that humans have been eating for thousands of years. Paleo comes to mind, but there are others. The claim made by these diets isn't structurally invalid, but often the claims are made without any investigation and are substantiated by anecdotal evidence that people feel better when eliminating X from their diet. That's fine, but that's not the same thing as being incompatible from an evolutionary standpoint.
• darkarmani 13y ago
  In particular the milk adaptation: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/070401_lactose http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/070401_lactose