Paleo Diet? Our bodies have moved on since the Stone Age
9 years, 9 months ago

Paleo Diet? Our bodies have moved on since the Stone Age

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The belief is that human evolution via survival of the fittest and natural selection is a very slow process and our genes classically take tens of thousands of years to change. It was previously thought this gene mutation started to dominate Europeans around 7,000 to 10,000 years ago at the onset of farming and the use of milk, so the finding that only one in 20 Bronze-age people had it 3,000 years ago was a major shock. They also have a secret weapon called horizontal gene transfer which means they can rapidly swap genes between them to mutual advantage, without waiting for natural selection.

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It’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past
1 year, 9 months ago

It’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past

The Hindu  

The paleo diet urges us to mimic our prehistoric ancestors’ food choices. For example, a recent review found that studies examining the paleo diet’s impact on type 2 diabetes have been “inconclusive.” Similarly, the authors of a 2020 study reported that following the paleo diet resulted in a higher relative abundance of gut bacteria that produce a chemical associated with …

It’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past: Recent studies have failed to support its claims
1 year, 10 months ago

It’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past: Recent studies have failed to support its claims

Salon  

The Paleo Diet urges us to mimic our prehistoric ancestors' food choices. The Paleo Diet's health claims, Author provided While the Paleo Diet has many adherents, clinical research has yet to substantiate its purported health benefits. This makes the Paleo Diet lower in carbohydrate and higher in protein than conventional recommended diets, such as those promoted by Health Canada and …

Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption, study suggests
2 years, 8 months ago

Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption, study suggests

The Independent  

Famine and infectious diseases drove early Europeans to develop the ability to consume milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait enabling lactose digestion as adults, new research has found. In the study, scientists assessed ancient DNA, radiocarbon, and archaeological data using new computer modelling techniques to show that lactase persistence genetic trait was not common until around …

Prehistoric Europeans drank milk long before humans could digest lactose – study
2 years, 8 months ago

Prehistoric Europeans drank milk long before humans could digest lactose – study

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Prehistoric people in Europe were drinking milk thousands of years before …

Europeans were lactose intolerant 5,000 years AFTER adopting farming
10 years, 5 months ago

Europeans were lactose intolerant 5,000 years AFTER adopting farming

Daily Mail  

A study of ancient human bones has revealed how Early Europeans had difficulties digesting milk around 5,000 years after the introduction of farming. Scroll down for video A study of ancient human bones has revealed how Early Europeans had a problem drinking milk around 5,000 years after the introduction of farming. BRITONS DITCHED FISHY DISHES FOR DAIRY DIETS 6,000 YEARS …

Is eating like our ancestors good for us?
12 years, 4 months ago

Is eating like our ancestors good for us?

China Daily  

Get Flash Player Download From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in Special English. At least one million five hundred thousand years ago, humans ate meat as part of their daily diet. "There was an increasing amount of evidence that early humans -- pretty much around two million years ago -- were eating meat. Now, archeologists can …

Evolution of lactose tolerance: Why do humans keep drinking milk?
12 years, 5 months ago

Evolution of lactose tolerance: Why do humans keep drinking milk?

Slate  

To repurpose a handy metaphor, let’s call two of the first Homo sapiens Adam and Eve. Thereafter, nursing or drinking another animal’s milk would have given the little hell-raiser stomach cramps and potentially life-threatening diarrhea; in the absence of lactase, lactose simply rots in the guts. “If you’re at a party and someone says, ‘Oh, I can’t eat that—I’m lactose …

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