the caveman diet
I was just reading up on this, and it's amazing the amount of bullshit that people will spout to justify their particular diet.
"There are races of people who are all slim, who are stronger and faster than us. They all have straight teeth and perfect eyesight. Arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, depression, schizophrenia and cancer are absolute rarities for them. These people are the last 84 tribes of hunter-gatherers in the world."
Yes, because in general hunter-gatherer societies have slightly lower levels of medical care than us.
"Around 10,000 years ago, an enormous breakthrough was made- a breakthrough that was to change the course of history, and our diet, forever. This breakthrough was the discovery that cooking these foods made them edible- the heat destroyed enough toxins to render them edible."
Cooking could have started as early as two million years ago, but probably more like 250,000 to 50,000 years ago. 10,000 years ago we discovered farming these crops - and the thing is, hunter gatherers had been eating these things for a long time, because hunter-gatherers will eat things that provide high calories for low effort, because it's most efficient. That's how crops evolved - hunter gatherers ate them!
Now this is not knocking any actual benefits the caveman diet might have for you - if it works for you, awesome! But I hate the justifications that people use for such stuff. It's pseudo-scientific and dishonest. (I'm rereading
Guns, Germss and Steel and the stuff I read on the caveman diet annoyed me by being wrong.)