pimg class=”alignright” title=”Cave Painting” alt=”cavepainting” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/cavepainting.jpg” width=”320″ height=”240″ /Critics often lambast the Primal Blueprint and other ancestral/paleo ways of eating for what they see as fatal flaws:/p
pFirst, that we don#8217;t know what our ancestors were truly eating./p
pSecond, that there wasn#8217;t just one paleo diet./p
pThird, that even if we could know exactly what our ancestors were eating, it doesn#8217;t mean those foods were the ideal foods; they were trying to eat whatever was available, not whatever was most nutritious or synergistic with their genome./p
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pBefore I address these, I want to make an important point. The anthropological record provides a framework for further examination of nutritional science; it does not prescribe a diet. It gives us somewhere to start so we#8217;re not flailing blind men dropped off in the middle of a strange city. That is why we#8217;re interested in what early man ate (and didn#8217;t eat)./p
pIt may surprise you to […]

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