New Paleo Research

I personally follow a Paleo diet, but I am still open-minded about this.  So it was interesting to read a news article this morning with a UK source.  

Unilever has gathered a leading research team of scientists and experts in fields such as evolutionary genetics, food scientists and anthropologists to explore how the stone-age Paleolithic diet could benefit us in the modern era (which is based on an agricultural neolithic diet).  

Palaeolithic man may have died earlier than we do now, but he didn't die of bad nutrition...”

- Prof Mark Thomas, University College London

As further stated in the article, previous research has shown that the nutrition of the paleolithic era (as hunter-gatherers) saw lower incidences of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.  Diseases which plague the modern era.

Read more about it on the BBC website here: Recreating the caveman diet