I’m a nutritionist with a BSc in Public Nutrition and a MSc in Clinical Nutrition. Throughout my formal nutrition education, I learned nothing about evolution. I learned a lot about the nutrients that make up the food we eat, chemistry, appetite regulation, statistics, and human physiology, among other things, but nothing about evolutionary biology. I […]
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Healthy Fats: A Cornerstone of the Paleolithic Diet
These days, one doesn’t have to look far and wide to find information about Paleolithic nutrition and evolutionary eating. These topics are no longer constrained to tiny sections of the world of science; they have proliferated and mutated and made their way into bookstores, magazines, newspapers, and blogs. Hence, it’s not surprising that Paleo is […]
How the Western Diet Has Changed the Human Face
Most people know that children who grow up eating a processed, nutrient-poor diet are at increased risk of a wide range of medical problems, including obesity, type-2 diabetes, and hypertension. What is less known is that diet – particularly the diet you eat when you grow up – can have a major impact on the […]