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> Given how little we know about digestion and the interaction between us and our gut flora I'd rather not limit the variety of my food based on the latest fad.

Some folks are saying that what we eat these days in western countries is indeed "the latest fad" - compared to at least what mankind ate 100'000-20'000 years ago. So, don't eat the latest fad - go back what your genome is used to. High protein?

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That's a bunch of pseudo-historic non-sense with basically no scientific foundation to it.

The fact remains that eating less calories than you burn resulting in weight loss. There isn't any magic to this. There is nothing to indicate otherwise.

There is no strong evidence of what people ate dozens of millennia ago, and there is even less evidence that they were healthier than people who follow modern diets recommended by nutritionists.

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