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How plant based was the paleo diet?
In the Stone Age people ate mainly fish and meat - and because our genes are still adjusted for the paleo diet we should also eat mainly fish and meat. That's the argument that paleo diet fans use. But archaeologists from Bar Ilan University, who are studying a spot where humans lived nearly eight hundred thousand years ago, have made discoveries that make one suspect that the paleo diet contained more plants that we've always assumed.
Excavations
Palaeontologists believe that we - the upright primates that call themselves Homo sapiens - have only been walking the earth for about two hundred thousand years.
Previously archaeologists had discovered that human-like primates had slaughtered, roasted and eaten deer at this site.
Results
The notations on the x-axis below, such as V-4, V-5, V-6 and I-4 stand for separate archaeological layers.
Conclusions
It's also remarkable that a number of the plants that the researchers found are poisonous when eaten raw, but edible after being heated. That's why they think that the human-like beings of the mid-Pleistocene roasted roots, nuts and other plant products as they did meat.
And so another idea of some paleo-adepts bites the dust: the idea that cooking and frying food is unnatural - and therefore also unhealthy.
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