Lets talk about the paleolithic diet (pre-agricultural diet)

[spesmilitis]

Interesting article in wikiepedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

It says people ate this way during "2 million years duration, ending about 10,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens, invented agriculture"

The article mentions eggs as part of the p-diet. But, aren't eggs an agricultural food? I also thought that eggs were only available in china for a while before they were spread throughout the globe.

For some reason I thought potatoes were what hunters and gatherers ate.
edit: nevermind
"It has been established that wild tubers would have been a common component in historically studied hunter-gatherer diets, comprising 23.6 % of all the plant food consumed by the average hunter-gatherer.[31] High glycemic load tubers (such as potatoes, which were developed from intensive agricultural inbreeding of wild types), however, would not have been part of pre-agricultural diets"

It says they didn't eat fatty meats, there were no fatty animals back in the day?

It says they ate nuts, but not cashews. Aren't cashews nuts?

"There is evidence that legumes were not generally consumed before the agricultural revolution.[37] However, recent archeological finds indicate that large seeded legumes were part of the human diet long before the neolithic agricultural revolution"

Thoughts?

[wolf116]

There are lots of animals that lay eggs on every continent. Aboriginals eat wild snake and bird eggs all the time.

Another big difference is that we no longer eat the organs of animals, like the liver and brains. This is why everyone is deficient in omega 3's and B vitamins.

Game meat is very lean compared to lazy cow meat. So yes less body fat.

[Throttle]

caveat: talking about paleolithic diets always involves a heavy dose of speculation.

but I would add to organ meat that paleolithic hunters are also believed to have cracked open bones to consume the marrow. you can get the same effect by making your own broth/stock. the gelatin within is protein sparing & very flavorful.

[Kerpal]

I don't really buy into it too much. It seems more like another fad diet than anything.

[spesmilitis]

I'm not suggesting the exact diet be followed. But the foods in the diet are what the human body has adapted most to.

[BluEyes]

Originally Posted by Kerpal

I don't really buy into it too much. It seems more like another fad diet than anything.

That's if you call the diet that homo erectus has been eating for the past 1.8 million years, a "fad" diet...

[mrRuckus]

Homo erectus eating anything today would absolutely shock me.

[Throttle]

[Bible_Belt]

They always leave out the bugs. Early man enjoyed tasty and high-protein grasshoppers, beetles, and grubs. The foods that are the easiest to catch would have been the ones most commonly consumed.

[Quiksilver]

I watched a show on discovery channel a few months ago about a group of people advocating eating bugs.

Apparently a large spider has 60g of protein, and a fat juicy caterpillar close behind with 50g.