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If you want to eat like your paleo ancestors, stop cutting out all carbs, a new study suggests – Business Insider Australia
Advocates of the paleo diet assume that our human ancestors had a meat-heavy, low-carb diet. But research shows Neanderthals ate many starchy foods.
Images of our human ancestors in popular culture often depict muscly hunters chasing and feasting on big game. So it makes sense that contemporary imitators follow diets like Paleo and keto that are meat-heavy and low-carb.
But new evidence suggests that Neanderthals and their ancestors consumed hefty portions of starchy carbohydrates as they expanded across eastern Africa and into Europe.
Traces of ancient bacteria on Neanderthal teeth suggest that starting at least 600,000 years ago, our ancestors…
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