(Which obviously doesn't necessarily mean that refined sugar is either good or bad.)
So we should all stop mentioning our ancestors when thinking about what to eat.
(Which obviously doesn't necessarily mean that refined sugar is either good or bad.)
So we should all stop mentioning our ancestors when thinking about what to eat.
That’s not to say we should eat what our ancestors ate, it’s just a nice starting point when you want to go hunt for the optimal food. Evolution obviously influences what we can eat – lactose tolerance (only a few thousand years old) is the best example of that – and evolution clearly had not yet time to react to our radically changing environment (cookies still taste absolutely delicious and not the least bit awful as they should).
Basically, what I'm saying is that the truth about nutrition and caveman diets are conditionally independent given currently actually-known science about nutrition. If we didn't have science, and all you had was cavemen observations, that might be valid, but we do, so it's not.
(And by "currently actually-known science" I mean very basic things like that we can't make iron from scratch so if we don't eat stuff with iron in it then we get sick, and same with some amino acids, and same with noticing that if you eat 20 cheeseburgers a day you get fat quickly. Not stuff like whether fat is bad or good.)