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|Nature is the cure of illness. Leave thy drugs in the chemist’s pot if thou can heal the patient with food. | |<center>Nature is the cure of illness. Leave thy drugs in the chemist’s pot if thou can heal the patient with food. —Hippocrates of Cos (460-370 BCE)</center> | ||
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|}A <b>Paleolithic diet</b> consumed by contemporary humans consists of items of foods selected from the types or groups of foods consumed by ancestral humans who lived during the Paleolithic age, or Old (''paleo'') Stone (''lithic'') age, predominantly in Sub-Sahara Africa, beginning approximately 2 million years ago (2 mya) | {{-}} | ||
A <b>Paleolithic diet</b> consumed by contemporary humans consists of items of foods selected from the types or groups of foods consumed by ancestral humans who lived during the Paleolithic age, or Old (''paleo'') Stone (''lithic'') age, predominantly in Sub-Sahara Africa, beginning approximately 2 million years ago (2 mya)<ref name=harris1988/> and ending with the introduction of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago (10 kya).<ref name=eatonkonner1985/> <ref name=notemyakya/> The term applies also to the diet consumed by those Paleolithic human ancestors. | |||
Interest in the Paleolithic diet by nutritional scientists stems from the argument that humans adapted their biology (physiology and metabolism)through evolutionary processes operating for millions of years before adopting a dramatically diet different following the recent inventions of agriculture and husbandry, and the industrial and fast-food revolutions, creating a mismatch between evolved biology and diet deleterious to health.<ref name=eatonkonner1985/> | |||
==References | ==References and notes== | ||
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<ref name=notemyakya>In 'mya', 'm' stand for 'mega-'=million; in kya,'k' stands for 'kilo-'=thousand.</ref> | |||
<ref name=eaton&konner1985>Eaton SB, Konner M. (1985) Paleolithic nutrition. A consideration of its nature and current implications. ''N Engl J Med'' 312(5): 283-289. | <font face=Gill Sans MT"><u>Abstract</u>: A detailed literature survey reviews and discusses nutritional aspects of the diets of historical paleolithic societies and their nutritional adequacy in light of current nutritional knowledge. Topics include the evaluation of food consumption habits, ranging from hominids (about 24 to 5 million years ago), through the appearance of archaic homo sapiens (about 400,000 years ago), to the twentieth century; dietary habits of recent hunter-gatherer societies with respect to meat and vegetable consumption; the probable nutrient intakes of paleolithic humans for specific nutrients (energy; fat and fatty acids; cholesterol; sodium and potassium; calcium; ascorbic acid; fiber; and other nutrients), and evidence for nutrient shortages; and a comparison of the late paleolithic diet to the current U.S. diet and the current U.S. dietary recommendations.</font></ref> | |||
<ref name=harris1988>Harris JWK, Williamson PG, Tappen MJ, Stewart K, Helgren D, de Heinzelin J, Boaz NT, Belloma RV. (1988) Late Pliocene hominid occupation in Central AfriCa: the setting, context, and character of the Senga 5A site, Zaire. ''Journal of Human Evolution'' 16:701-728. | <font face=Gill Sans MT"><u>From Abstract</u>: Dating estimates based on fauna1 correlation indicate an age of about 2.0-2.3 million years B.P. [before the present] making it the earliest archaeological site of its size and state of preservation currently known in Africa. As the westernmost Oldowan site known in Africa, Senga 5A significantly expands our knowledge of the geographic range of early tool using hominids.</font></ref> | |||
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A Paleolithic diet consumed by contemporary humans consists of items of foods selected from the types or groups of foods consumed by ancestral humans who lived during the Paleolithic age, or Old (paleo) Stone (lithic) age, predominantly in Sub-Sahara Africa, beginning approximately 2 million years ago (2 mya)[1] and ending with the introduction of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago (10 kya).[2] [3] The term applies also to the diet consumed by those Paleolithic human ancestors.
Interest in the Paleolithic diet by nutritional scientists stems from the argument that humans adapted their biology (physiology and metabolism)through evolutionary processes operating for millions of years before adopting a dramatically diet different following the recent inventions of agriculture and husbandry, and the industrial and fast-food revolutions, creating a mismatch between evolved biology and diet deleterious to health.[2]
References and notes
- ↑ Harris JWK, Williamson PG, Tappen MJ, Stewart K, Helgren D, de Heinzelin J, Boaz NT, Belloma RV. (1988) Late Pliocene hominid occupation in Central AfriCa: the setting, context, and character of the Senga 5A site, Zaire. Journal of Human Evolution 16:701-728. | From Abstract: Dating estimates based on fauna1 correlation indicate an age of about 2.0-2.3 million years B.P. [before the present] making it the earliest archaeological site of its size and state of preservation currently known in Africa. As the westernmost Oldowan site known in Africa, Senga 5A significantly expands our knowledge of the geographic range of early tool using hominids.
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