In honor of Thanksgiving – I will present a discussion of the Holiday meal, in light of evolutionary hypotheses of diet, especially the Paleolithic diet. If modern environments are to blame for our ill health, perhaps we would be better off eating as our ancestors did. But what did they eat anyway?

Readings:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/3.5.98/spices.html

Eaton (2006)-Ancestral human diet

Eaton 2000

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Joe Alcock

Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine