The Problem With the Paleo Diet Argument

The Paleolithic period represents just the last 2 million years of human evolution. What did our bodies evolve to eat during the first 90% of our time on Earth?

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For more on the absence of Western diseases in plant-based rural populations, see for example:
• One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-i...)
• Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-bu...)
• Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cavit...)

I’ve touched on “paleo” diets in the past (with more to come!):
• Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleo...)
• Paleolithic Lessons (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleo...)
• Will The Real Paleo Diet Please Stand Up? (http://nutritionfacts.org/2014/09/23/...)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-p... and he'll try to answer it!

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