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Primal Claims Oversimplify Evolution
- The modern “primal” or paleo movement cherry-picks ancestral facts to sell products and identity.
- Claiming ancient diets are universally optimal ignores huge variability and evolutionary change.
Account For Access Before Blaming Diet
- Consider socioeconomic status when judging diet outcomes; access and money drive many health differences.
- Don't assume fad-diet benefits are intrinsic when people switching diets can also afford better food and time.
Human Biology Has Rapidly Evolved
- Humans and our gut microbes have evolved since the Stone Age, so modern diets can't simply revert us to a 'natural' optimum.
- Traits like lactase persistence and eye color changed in the last 10,000 years, undermining static-genome arguments.