Sentences with phrase «diet than hunter»

So breast milk, I think, gives us a much clearer indication of the optimal human diet than hunter - gatherer diets.

Not exact matches

In general, hunter - gatherers tend to eat more animal protein than we do in our standard Western diet, with its reliance on agriculture and carbohydrates derived from grains and starchy plants.

Comparative studies show that Neolithic hunter - gatherers ate a more varied and nutritious diet than Neolithic farmers.

Rather than concluding that the «evolutionary diet» of humans may have been net acid - producing, Cordain, Eaton, and Melvin Konner published an editorial in the same issue of AJCN arguing that the many net acid - producing diets of historic hunter - gatherers resulted from a divergence from the ancestral alkaline diets of prehistoric hunter - gatherers.

So if you eat a lot of cholesterol foods, your liver just makes less cholesterol.We are thinking now that the tables set for healthy cholesterol levels are maybe inaccurate, its been know for years for example that older folk with high cholesterol actually live longer and more healthy lives than those with low or medically corrected cholesterol.If we could stay away from junk food with its sugar, oils and even chemical pesticides, take in less calories than we burn and eat a very basic diet, like that of a hunter gatherer, we may be in the best shape of our lives.

Throughout more than 99 % of the evolutionary history of our genus, Homo, all humans ate a hunter - gatherer diet composed of a mix of wild meat and plant foods.

A skeptic could argue that hunter - gatherers routinely ate a flawed diet because some type of food was routinely easier to obtain than others, and thus systematically biased the diet.

Frankly I don't think we have to dive into anthropological theory or research to draw the conclusion that hunter - gatherer diets are healthier than twinkies and Coke — that's common sense isnt it?