The Palaeolithic Diet And The Unprovable Links To Our Past

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Harking back to the diet of the caveman. Flickr/George , CC BY-NC-SA

We still hear and read a lot about how a diet based on what our Stone Age ancestors ate may be a cure-all for modern ills. But can we really run the clock backwards and find the optimal way to eat? It’s a largely impossible dream based on a set of fallacies about our ancestors.