On the other hand, you've got the select camp of scientists, journalists, some nutritionists, etc that believe that humans are still adapted to eating more of a «Paleo» style of diet, which greatly limits grains of all types, since grains historically never comprised more than a tiny percentage of
the human diet until just the most recent agricultural age, which allowed mass production of grains for the first time in human history.
In case you're new to the science of Paleolithic nutrition, humans don't actually need grains to survive... grains were never a part of the ancient
human diet until agriculture came around only about ten thousand years ago.
Grains were never a big part of
the human diet until the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago.
Not exact matches
That being said, regardless of our origins, up
until the industrialization of the food supply, less than 100 years ago,
humans had successfully subsisted off of an earth based
diet of plants, seeds, nuts, fruits, and meat.
This
until now seemingly unnoticed mechanism can improve the nutritional value of a large part of the
human diet, since Biologists have yet to discover any type of crop that does not have a variant of these so - called zinc pumps, Michael Broberg Palmgren explains.
«This response never manifested itself
until humans started to eat high - sugar, high - fat, high - calorie
diets,» says Magar Ghazarian, now a medical student in Ireland.
The low - fat
diet, of course, up
until that point in time was completely untested in
humans.
«The rats that stayed cancer - free on an unsupplemented gluten
diet were the equivalent of a
human eating nothing but wheat, every single day, from the moment they're weaned off Momma's teat
until the day they die.
Refined sugars (e.g., sucrose, fructose) were absent in the
diet of most people
until very recently in
human history.
It wasn't
until agriculture became more prominent only a couple thousand years ago, that grains became a major part of the
human diet.