Ancient diet

This article describes the diet of ancient humans and argues that it was far healthier than what we eat today.

They spent most of their days hunting and finding food. They ran or walked 5 to 10 miles each day. They lifted carcasses and skins filled with clean water to drink. If they wished to eat more food, they had to spend more energy getting it.

Their total cholesterol was 110 mg/dl; their LDL cholesterol was 50 mg/dl. Their blood pressure was 100/60. They were tall and lean. None of them had cardiovascular disease. Their arteries were free of atherosclerosis. They ate no refined grains or sugars, except for seasonal honey. They ate little, if any, salt. Half of their food intake was meat. The animals they hunted ate grass or leaves. The game meat contained 2-4 percent fat by weight and was high in omega-3 fatty acids.

Comments

[Jordan Henderson]

Their total cholesterol was 110 mg/dl; their LDL cholesterol was 50 mg/dl. They were tall and lean.

I call BS. How does this Cardiologist know the Cholesterol of an Ancient Man? Also, everything I've heard is that we are taller now than we've ever been in the past.

Don't get me wrong, I think this hypothetical 'Ancient Man' lived a lot healthier, in many ways, than we do now, but this romanticism of the noble savage shouldn't be mistaken for science.

But, is this news? Isn't this just a rehash of The Caveman Diet?

Also old technique was using Tape worms.
this in teh victorian era

[Keith]

I am absolutely failed to figure it out as to why are you saying that " Food is worst."