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We Evolved to Eat Vegetables and Meat, Not Grains and Dairy

by David Tollen | Oct 29, 2014 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic

MyPlate is a graphic from the USDA that advises Americans how to eat. But I think it’s based on bad history (and bad biology too). It tells us to get almost half of our calories from grains and dairy. Yet through almost all of our history (or prehistory), we fed...
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