Evolution

Miki Ben-Dor

Paleo anthropologist Miki Ben-Dor

How Humans Became Meat Eaters

Our earliest ancestors subsisted on plants, seeds, and nuts. What spurred them to change their diets so dramatically? 

Marta Zaraska is a writer based in France. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, National Geographic, and Newsweek. She is the author of Meathooked.

What Humans Evolved to eat

The vast size and energy demands of the human brain required a diet that differed from that of our hominid ancestors.

Brain changes throughout our evolutionary history is the #1 piece of evidence to answer the  question “What are humans designed to eat?”

Proper Human Nutrition

Low Carb Diets have been a part of our history for thousands of years.

Over the last  forty years there has been an explosion in chronic disease across the world.

We believe that a significant element of that development has been the switch to much higher carbohydrate diets, particularly of processed foods with poor nutritional content  including too many grains and other carbohydrates. 

Many of us have been unable to cope with a diet full of refined processed foods and our health has suffered with rising chronic health conditions including T2 diabetes and obesity.

Many of us have discovered for ourselves with the assistance of a relatively small network of medical professionals and social media,  that the key to recovering our health  has been to adopt a Low carbohydrate or even ketogenic diet. 

This is not a fad diet .  In  320 Ge Hong   writing about  grain avoidance in “Book of the Master Who Embraces Simplicty” said “there was not a fat one among them”. He goes onto describe many of the key features of nutritional ketosis including the lack of hunger! 

In 1796 John Rollo MD the Surgeon General at the Royal Artillery Hospital Woolwich London, wrote up  a case study of the reversal of a man with T2 diabetes, largely through a carbohydrate restricted animal protein diet. 

Ever since then  there has been a steady stream of efforts to bring the news to the population that a diet high in nutrient dense natural proteins  & fats  which largely excludes grains cereals  and starchy carbohydrates is one which can lead to enormous health gains specially for anyone prone putting on weight. 

We are fortunate that over the last few years, a resurgence of interest in low carbohydrate eating has resulted in a large body of scientific research confirming that adopting a lower carbohydrate or even ketogenic diet is both safe and efficacious. 

We are proud that scientific and medical leaders in the space have joined together to create a simple consensus statement which we believe all who have adopted a low carb. higher fat way of eating can get behind, regardless of whether their personal approach includes animal proteins, dairy or not. 

It is the nature of science that it is never “settled” once and for all.  Further breakthroughs in our understanding of the workings of the human body may well lead to further changes to what we consider an “optimal diet”.   

Our goal is only to optimise our health, for now we are convinced that following the principles outlined represents the best way to control, and improve health in the early 21st century. 

Today, social media enables us to reach a larger audience. Through advocacy we want to help bring the message to governments and health authorities that  adopting a fresh food, lower carbohydrate  way of  eating can help improve the health of vast swathes of the world’s population and assist in overcoming the tidal wave of obesity, diabetes  and other chronic conditions of modern civilisation.