Wait, Didn’t Our Ancestors Eat Red Meat? // Food myths (video)

[DirkGently]

68. I generally interpret these meat / salt / sugar / fat reports as follows:

1. Meat, salt, sugar, and fat are all useful nutritionally, but were hard to come by as our species evolved.

2. Now people in wealthy industrialized countries can have all they want, but retain some ancient "EAT MORE OF THIS" triggers.

3. We essentially do best eating more plant matter and less meat, salt, sugar, and fat than we might be naturally inclined to do.

4. Unless we are native people living in northern latitudes eating large proportions of seal and whale meat, which seems to work fine for those people.


I've been reading these headlines my entire life, and the bottom line has never really changed. Our ideal diet is high in plant matter, with meat as a high-value supplement. In this country at least, we get so much salt, fat, and sugar so easily that we need to actively avoid over-consuming them.

And as I recall, this report concluded first that processed meats are the worst. Again, nothing new here.

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