According to my Facebook stream the “paleo diet” is the latest trend of shortcuts people are taking towards healthy eating. The concept is you eat like people did during the Paleolithic Era. This is all fine and dandy but I have issues with it. The first being that I have to constantly hear about it. The second is that while you are eating like our evolutionary ancestors you aren’t gathering your food in the same way. Were you to say, spend a whole day hunting a deer and then killing it an preparing it with stone tools you’d be much more authentic.
Additionally I watched this video produced by the BBC and featuring a scientist from my alma mata that explores how our diet may have helped us evolve to have larger brains. (The video is an hour but totally worth it)
