This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page the world's population will reach 7 billion Only a tiny fraction of this number still makes a living by hunting and gathering the way all our ancestors did before about 12,000 years ago According to a set of claims relentlessly pushed in some books and blogs as many modern humans as possible should adopt a hunter-gatherer diet we should eat lean meat and vegetables because our Paleolithic hunting-and-gathering ancestors did grains and sugars because our hunting-and-gathering ancestors didn't eat these items I'd greet this embrace of the human prehistoric past with unalloyed delight especially in a country where a high percentage of our population is evolution-averse I don't think there's good science behind these claims It's best to clarify right off that leaders of the paleo-diet movement don't think monolithically. Lean meat and veggies take center stage, but the emphasis may vary in details such as how much seafood to eat. A look at the current issue of Paleo — a magazine devoted to "modern primal living" — indicates that paleo-faddists think hard about exercise and lifestyle choices Some of them, in fact, take a paleo-lifestyle to startling lengths. In profiling this "modern-day Stone Age subculture" and its leaders, Arthur de Vany and Loren Cordain, the German magazine Der Spiegel interviews disciples who run through the undergrowth and eat wild boar in explicit emulation of their Paleolithic forebears When I've interacted online with paleo-diet fans I've found the great majority to be measured and thoughtful I worried aloud about the consequences of urging even more carnivory than we've already got But the paleo-movement seems to doom (even if unintentionally) more animals to life and death in factory farms A greater percentage of grain crops would also be diverted to rich countries' animals and away from poor countries' people What I learned is that some paleo-dieters reject the eating of animals from factory farms focusing instead on avoiding grains and sugary foods So no one should dismiss these people as blind fanatics But do their core beliefs accord with good science Many nutrition scientists give the paleo-diet a thumbs-down They worry about its dearth of carbohydrates and the fact that its boasts for good health are medically unproven Our ancestors began to eat meat in large quantities around 2 million years ago when the first Homo forms began regular use of stone tool technology the diet of australopithecines and their relatives was overwhelmingly plant-based I could argue that the more genuine "paleo" diet was vegetarian More worrisome are persistent attempts to match a modern diet to an "average" Paleolithic one, or Loren Cordain's insistence that "we were genetically designed to eat lean meat and fish and other foods that made up the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors." Here's where science most forcefully speaks back ancient hunter-gatherer groups adapted to local environments that were regionally and seasonally variable — for instance game-saturated or grain-abundant (eating grains was not necessarily incompatible with hunter-gatherer living) People learned what worked in local context for survival and reproduction cultural traditions began to play a role in who ate what there was no single hunter-gatherer foraging strategy and genes no more "designed" our eating behavior than they designed our language or our ways of relating between the genders It's not paleo-fantasy that's going to help us negotiate a healthy future Become an NPR sponsor German newspaper, inFranden.de reports that a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta crashed into a central reservation over the weekend Fortunately neither driver nor passenger suffered injuries Damage is quite heavy to the front with the right side rear fender and rear bumper damaged too The accident happened near Allersberg on the derestricted section of the A9 autobahn The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta is a thoroughbred Ferrari GT car It features a 6.3 litre V12 engine with 730hp routed exclusively to the rear wheels it is inevitable that one or two accidents were going to occur The pictures reveal that a BMW M6 was also at the scene of the accident and website in this browser for the next time I comment Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.