I mean, if trying to reproduce a paleolithic diet was a good idea, then why stop at it? Why don’t also try paleo healthcare or paleo housing?
I can think of at least one obvious answer to this question. Was it supposed to be rhetorical?
Modern medical and housing technologies are dramatically superior to ancient ones. A modern house is a better place to live than an ancient dwelling in quite a lot of ways. Modern technology gives us the ability to produce much more food than the ancients did, but it is unclear that the food is superior: nutritionally, modern foods do not have obvious and dramatic advantages over ancient foods (in many cases it’s the same food!), certainly not to the same degree modern medicine can outperform ancient herbalism.
(This is not by itself sufficient to justify the idea of a paleo-like diet. That specific criticism just doesn’t hold up.)
I can think of at least one obvious answer to this question. Was it supposed to be rhetorical?
Modern medical and housing technologies are dramatically superior to ancient ones. A modern house is a better place to live than an ancient dwelling in quite a lot of ways. Modern technology gives us the ability to produce much more food than the ancients did, but it is unclear that the food is superior: nutritionally, modern foods do not have obvious and dramatic advantages over ancient foods (in many cases it’s the same food!), certainly not to the same degree modern medicine can outperform ancient herbalism.
(This is not by itself sufficient to justify the idea of a paleo-like diet. That specific criticism just doesn’t hold up.)