What would a diet appropriate to our actual evolution be like?

[VulpusinaWilfsuit]

As opposed to that determined by our socio-economic and cultural development... And would be all be healthier eating like this?

So, I reckon

mostly nuts seeds and berries
water
roots? parsnips and carrots
very little complex carbs (vv occasional potatoes, grains etc?)
bit of greenery

fasting one or two days a week
meat - loads of it - every couple of weeks at most...

I would be skeletal but glowing?

Do you think that early man had a diet like that then?

But a supposition corny, am waiting for proper people to confirm it. Just wondering if this is how we ought to eat really to stop us being bloaters...

No milk products? And wondering how long evolution will take to catch up with our current diet. Not long enough for chips and marshmallows to be a healthy diet I imagine...

I concur with your list and would add to it:

brassicas and legumes

HTH

oooh stinkyfart, you sound like you know?

I reckon we need blue green algae to counteract the pesticides in and general depletion of the soil.

Am I not a proper person then?

oh yes, a bit of seaweed. You have reminded me we must be well-adapted to fish and shellfish in the UK/Europe?

That sounded like utter offensive shite cornsilk. And I apologise.

I am assuming, from your question, that you, like me are a random amateur on the question of evolution-appropriate foodstuffs?

If I am wrong I am sorry. Sorry anyway

My excuse is a vomiting baby and only 3 hours sleep in 24. hopefully he is now asleep but I am WIRED and WEIRD...

Spidermama I am not sure that early man would have had access to blue/green algae

If domestication is taken into account then milk from goats/cattle may be included; if you go far back, before any type of 'farming' then hunting and foraging remain the only ways of obtaining sustenance.

Interesting stuff

Fish. Early settlements were always near water - obviously - so fish was a huge part of the diet.

So what is the timelag? How long before Pink and White wafers and Big Macs no longer kill us?

hmm I think that we will all die out before we become evolutionarily used to pink wafers and Big macs

[gloomy]

And seafood - eg oysters, mussels etc.

yy seafood

and fowl

Hmm. Not so much local seafood round here in the, um, Midlands. Must move to Morecambe.

Wilf I was only joking!

Yes - I am an amateur evolution foodstuff ponderer as well.

Anyhow. Beer must be more evolutionarily suitable than wine?

Wine is supposedly healthier isn't it so wine would be the one I'd choose. Or gin.

ACtually I reckon fermented fruit alcohol must have been discovered earlier than wine or beer?

I suspect that the biggest influence would be the amount of time which our early ancestors spent walking, running, climbing, chasing, etc in order to find these assorted foods, rather than the actual foods themselves. If we had to walk 5 miles to the nearest burger shop, then the calories in the burger would not have so much effect on our weight.