Posted: May 07, 2010 7:55 am
Although one could say that most of your arguments don't tackle a palaeolithic diet per se, but rather the general circumstances palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used to live in, i.e. no medical care, times of scarcity, etc.
One could argue that taking the good things from our modern society (medical science, abundance of food resources, etc.) and at the same time changing our diet to something more hunter-gatherer like could have positive effects. Of course, we would first have to define what kind of food that entails and then see if that really is healthier than an agriculture based life-style. (i.e. apply scientific methods to find out.)
Also, that's where your "What kind of hunter-gatherer society do you mean?" argument comes in.
I'm by no means a nutritional/dietary scientist, but I'd wager that even if we do the above it would turn out that this idea is horse-shit, though.
And don't even get me started on that conspiracy guano.
One could argue that taking the good things from our modern society (medical science, abundance of food resources, etc.) and at the same time changing our diet to something more hunter-gatherer like could have positive effects. Of course, we would first have to define what kind of food that entails and then see if that really is healthier than an agriculture based life-style. (i.e. apply scientific methods to find out.)
Also, that's where your "What kind of hunter-gatherer society do you mean?" argument comes in.
I'm by no means a nutritional/dietary scientist, but I'd wager that even if we do the above it would turn out that this idea is horse-shit, though.
And don't even get me started on that conspiracy guano.