![]() Old habits die hard, and even the digestion-obsessed ancient Romans believed that eating once per day was the healthiest option. What we can learn from our ancestors, however, is that we are probably better off eating fewer processed foods and getting more exercise.” “Anthropologists have found that one adaptation to the limited availability of food was in the lengths of their small and large intestines, allowing them to survive on less. “Our hunter-gatherer ancestors’ bodies were well-adapted to times of feast or famine,” he says. It’s tempting then to imagine that we’re still suited to eat our calories outside of a breakfast, lunch, and dinner paradigm, but Jim White, R.D., a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, casts some doubt on whether we still have the necessary physiology to eat so sporadically. In other words, before the domestication of plants and animals, we ate when there was food available to us and fasted when there wasn’t. Before that, humans ate less often - but eating less frequently is a Paleo habit we don’t need to resurrect.įor the vast majority of human history, people ate when they were lucky enough to get a spear into a warthog, stumble across some honeycomb, gather a few nuts, or dig up a tuber. ![]() ![]() A lot of things separate our species from other mammals: opposable thumbs, large brains, pants, and, for the past 10,000 years or so (right up to the end of the Paleo age), a fairly predictable food supply.
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