![]() ![]() Paul Freedman, Ph.D., a food historian from Yale University, says that argument is all wrong. “Just because it’s a dietary practice that our ancestors had in the past, does that mean, A) it was something that was beneficial, and B) it was something that we should return to because it would be good for us today?” Briana Pobiner, Ph.D., paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian, tells Inverse. Historians question how much stock we should put in the “caveman diet,” and the inadvertent intermittent fasting of our predecessors. ![]() Brianna Stubbs, Ph.D., lead translational scientist at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, says “there would’ve definitely been periods during human evolution when we just wouldn’t have been able to eat for a day or two.”īut the idea that it might be better to stop eating three meals a day, and instead, return to ancient eating patterns is still being debated. In today’s world, as “diseases of civilization” - obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease - rapidly grow, wouldn’t it be better if we just went back to the way things were? The argument posits that our prehistoric ancestors would go days, even weeks without food, yet remained healthy. "Wouldn’t it be better if we just went back to the way things were? It’s part of our nature and built into our biology. Whether you’re talking about keto, paleo, intermittent fasting, Weight Watchers, or intuitive eating, there’s one prevailing idea that seems to repeat on a loop: Human beings are wired to fast. In the great diet debate, every argument counts. ![]()
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