Current Events > What's up with this Ancestral fad diet going on nowadays?

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Like eat like cave men and shit, and keep food raw as possible like meat, fruit, and grains? Do these people realize they only ate like that because they lacked the intelligence, and the resources/technology needed to have anything else? Also, do these people realize our Ancestral cavemen had life expectancy of 20-30 years old? Yeah, live healthy like them, to live a long life. Fucking morons.

Is this science?

R1masher posted...

Is this science?

Bro science

Palaeo has been a thing for a while.

it always sounded to me like the concept of "don't eat food with weird additives" (which is not that bad an idea) taken to an extreme where it's no longer helpful advice

people just want something new, doesnt matter how healthy or unhealthy it is

They're dumb cause humans have been cooking since before they were the current species. Also, they were eating grains for that long too

I don't think life expectency was ever really that low. Just statistics skewed downward by high infant/child mortality.

Paleo has been around a while, bro. It has its benefits by eliminating processed shit and making you eat more real food. Its expensive to get into, however. And its hard to stick to if youre constantly on the go and dont have time for meal prep.

Eating non processed foods is healthier for you.

TC you don't actually seem to know what YOU'RE talking about

Many foods have more nutrients before being cooked, teeth health cam benefit from eating uncooked foods, and it's just a myth that they didn't live as long as us they only had high child mortality. Eating whole food plant based has always been known to be significantly healthier for you. Your gut works better, you barely need to wipe when you poop, you eat til you're satiated without gaining weight...

I'm not supporting the diet but you're just spewing American bullshit tbh

Eating uncooked meat is stupidly dangerous.

Dumb. Our ancestors used fire to cook food because cooked food is more nutritious. I can understand wanting to eat organic, but no reason not to cook it.

The real benefit of such a diet is that it forces you to eat more fruits and vegetables, and cut out junk food.

It's a reaction to overly processed foods. Problem is they took it way too far in the opposite direction.

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Not with their fiber intake they can't

Eating raw veggies and fruits are fine. But the raw meat thing? That's because some humans are dumb. It'll probably stop once people start getting parasites. Ugh.

mustachedmystic posted...

I don't think life expectency was ever really that low. Just statistics skewed downward by high infant/child mortality.

Well I mean, when we were still actively on the menu I'm sure our species life expectancy wasn't as long.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Well I mean, when we were still actively on the menu I'm sure our species life expectancy wasn't as long.

I don't think our species was ever part of the usual diet of any animals.

DeadBankerDream posted...

I don't think our species was ever part of the usual diet of any animals.

Us.

Njolk posted...

TC you don't actually seem to know what YOU'RE talking about

Many foods have more nutrients before being cooked, teeth health cam benefit from eating uncooked foods, and it's just a myth that they didn't live as long as us they only had high child mortality. Eating whole food plant based has always been known to be significantly healthier for you. Your gut works better, you barely need to wipe when you poop, you eat til you're satiated without gaining weight...

I'm not supporting the diet but you're just spewing American bullshit tbh

Shut the fuck up.

That sounds like some Joe Rogan shit.

Heartomaton posted...

That sounds like some Joe Rogan shit.

It is. He's one of the bigger influencers that really shot this diet up. Then the youtube/tiktok influencers went with it.

Sheiky-Baby posted...

It is. He's one of the bigger influencers that really shot this diet up. Then the youtube/tiktok influencers went with it.

Huh.

I was just joking, but I was right?

Weird.

Sheiky-Baby posted...

Like eat like cave men and shit, and keep food raw as possible like meat, fruit, and grains? Do these people realize they only ate like that because they lacked the intelligence, and the resources/technology needed to have anything else? Also, do these people realize our Ancestral cavemen had life expectancy of 20-30 years old? Yeah, live healthy like them, to live a long life. Fucking morons.

Almost everything you said is wrong.

You think they lack the intelligence? Well guess what? We're still the same species. Our species is roughly 300,000 years old, which means you have the same brain capacity that they did. The average lifespan was also a bit more then 20-30 years. Not to mention it was lower because of all the deaths in childbirth which lowers the average. The biggest reason for death though was predators and disease, not because of their diet. The only lack of intelligence involved here is your post with its astounding ignorance.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Eating raw veggies and fruits are fine. But the raw meat thing? That's because some humans are dumb. It'll probably stop once people start getting parasites. Ugh.

but you see, man you the parasites are good because they eat all the toxins and bacteria in your body and that's good for you!

You'll be rocking that beach body in no time!

This is from like, 2013. What spurred the revival?

It's a decently healthy diet, but the arrogance of calling it "paleo" and pretending it's how our ancestors ate and is therefore the "correct" human diet is so offputting that I'm willing to discount the whole thing.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Eating raw veggies and fruits are fine. But the raw meat thing? That's because some humans are dumb. It'll probably stop once people start getting parasites. Ugh.

Raw meat was fine when they were all wild and hunted. The factory farmed ones we eat now? Those will give you parasites and salmonella.

Jagr_68 posted...

but you see, man you the parasites are good because they eat all the toxins and bacteria in your body and that's good for you!

You'll be rocking that beach body in no time!

Humans haven't ate raw meat in over a million years since we discovered fire.

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Hey, during dry years, you gotta eat what you got.

Wait until you see the people that eat expired and moldy raw food intentionally.

3PiesAndAFork posted...

Raw meat was fine when they were all wild and hunted. The factory farmed ones we eat now? Those will give you parasites and salmonella.

Not really true. Wild animals have loads of parasites. Most of the modern day parasitic infections from meat in the US come out of people hunting deer and boar

Gamerguymass posted...

Humans haven't ate raw meat in over a million years since we discovered fire.

i can never tell if you are joking lmao

Guide posted...

i can never tell if you are joking lmao

I don't know why you would think this is a joke. The million years part may or may not be 100% accurate since I can't find a consistent time frame for when humans started cooking meat. It ranges anywhere from 500,000 years to 1.5 million years ago. Regardless of what it actually is though, the point is that humans started cooking meat long before our species ever showed up.

Kakapo posted...

Palaeo has been a thing for a while.

sensible chuckle

The paleolithic diet? Literally been around forever. Meat and pototaes.

Gamerguymass posted...

I don't know why you would think this is a joke. The million years part may or may not be 100% accurate since I can't find a consistent time frame for when humans started cooking meat. It ranges anywhere from 500,000 years to 1.5 million years ago. Regardless of what it actually is though, the point is that humans started cooking meat long before our species ever showed up.

Okay, this actually communicates your point well. Just your initial statement was a vague number, and a denial that raw meat is still part of culinary fields to this day.

Guide posted...

Okay, this actually communicates your point well. Just your initial statement was a vague number, and a denial that raw meat is still part of culinary fields to this day.

I meant as a species obviously, not that no individual ever eats raw meat as part of a certain dish. Other then a few nut bags no humans alive today eat raw meat on a regular basis., not counting sushi I suppose. Besides I meant more something with legs that you need to hunt down like our ancestors would have eaten.

Gamerguymass posted...

Almost everything you said is wrong.

You think they lack the intelligence? Well guess what? We're still the same species. Our species is roughly 300,000 years old, which means you have the same brain capacity that they did. The average lifespan was also a bit more then 20-30 years. Not to mention it was lower because of all the deaths in childbirth which lowers the average. The biggest reason for death though was predators and disease, not because of their diet. The only lack of intelligence involved here is your post with its astounding ignorance.

Looks like I offended the Geico Caveman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMQg0m13IY4

Currently, this guy seems to be the face of the Ancestral diet going on atm. I didn't know cavemen had HGH, T-Shots, whole boiled eggs, protein powders, maple syrup, liver pills, and Himalayan salt back in the day, but according to the resident present cave dwellers on this board, what do I know. Maybe they just did. Maybe they were time travelers.

Sheiky-Baby posted...

Also, do these people realize our Ancestral cavemen had life expectancy of 20-30 years old?

i believe that's only true if you include the deaths of toddlers and babies.
those people that got to adulthood, they lived much closer to modern lifespans

ROBANN_88 posted...

i believe that's only true if you include the deaths of toddlers and babies.
those people that got to adulthood, they lived much closer to modern lifespans

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First and foremost is that while Paleolithic-era humans may have been fit and trim, their average life expectancy was in the neighborhood of 35 years. The standard response to this is that average life expectancy fluctuated throughout history, and after the advent of farming was sometimes even lower than 35. It's only in recent modern history, with the advent of nutrition, that life expectancy has soared.

I know this board have people that like to talk out of their ass, but stop it.

Another one:

Paleolithic 22 33 Neolithic 20 33 Bronze Age and Iron Age 26 Classical Greece 25 28

You guys are thinking of medieval/ancient era civilizations, where people would generally live to 70+ if they made it past infancy. Paleo man had a hard time reaching 50

Hunter-gatherers were the least successful type of human lifestyle that has ever existed. Agrarian societies replaced them everywhere they went for a reason