A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition that holds
promise for the prevention and treatment of diseases of civilisation
Nutrition Research Reviews, 07/18/2012
Kuipers RS et al. – There is ample evidence that ancestors lived in a
land–water ecosystem and extracted a substantial part of their diets from both
terrestrial and aquatic resources. Rather than rejecting this possibility by
lack of evidence, the default assumption should be that hominins, living in
coastal ecosystems with catchable aquatic resources, consumed these resources.
Finally, the composition and merits of so–called ‘Palaeolithic diets’, based on
different hominin niche–reconstructions, are evaluated. The benefits of these
diets illustrate that it is time to incorporate this knowledge into dietary
recommendations.
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