Hunter-Gatherer Diet

• Once people settled into agricultural-based lives, they became dependent on just a few food staples, such as potatoes, rice and wheat.  It is virtually impossible to get enough nutrition by eating the same few foods.
• In the transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer, we lost one of the  keys to good nutrition—variety. In other words, we’ve had 100,000 generations of people who were hunter-gatherers, 500 generations have depended on agriculture, only 10 generations have lived before the start of the industrial age, and only 2 generations have grown up with highly processed fast foods.*
• The difficulty of hunting and gathering food, experienced by early humans, required many more calories to sustain life, thus necessitating both a nutrient and fiber intake considerably in excess of what’s common today.

*Moran T. Diet, health and history. Diet’s role in disease is food for thought. Tex. Med.  1997;93:34-37.