Well, there are attempts at “paleo diets” though for the most part they seem like unscientific fads. However it’s also true that we’ve been at the agricultural game for long enough that we have adapted to that as well (case in point: lactose tolerance).
Or maybe our ancestors had to eat these things because they were efficient ways to get protein and fat into their bodies, and we consume enough of that already and too much of the bad things we do not fully understand that they also contain.
That doesn’t convince me much, we mostly consume enough (or too much) of that via animal products in the first place. Well, putting aside seed oils, but their entire point is to be a cheap replacement for an animal saturated fat (butter) most of the time. Our diets tend to have “too much” of virtually anything, be it cholesterol from animal products or refined carbs from grains. We just eat too much. The non-adaptive part there is “we were never meant to deal with infinite food at our fingertips and so we never bothered evolving strong defences against that”. Maybe a few centuries of evolution under these conditions would change that.
Well, there are attempts at “paleo diets” though for the most part they seem like unscientific fads. However it’s also true that we’ve been at the agricultural game for long enough that we have adapted to that as well (case in point: lactose tolerance).
That doesn’t convince me much, we mostly consume enough (or too much) of that via animal products in the first place. Well, putting aside seed oils, but their entire point is to be a cheap replacement for an animal saturated fat (butter) most of the time. Our diets tend to have “too much” of virtually anything, be it cholesterol from animal products or refined carbs from grains. We just eat too much. The non-adaptive part there is “we were never meant to deal with infinite food at our fingertips and so we never bothered evolving strong defences against that”. Maybe a few centuries of evolution under these conditions would change that.
Sorry if I was not clear enough but what you write is what I meant as well.