Wednesday, August 3, 2016

The Anthropological Argument About Carb Consumption

Are our modern dietary guidelines at odds with evolution?

For many thousands of years, humans survived as hunter-gatherers. Only in the past several thousand, an evolutionary blink of the eye, have we shifted to a diet in which grain-based, high-carbohydrate, and high-sugar content foods dominate our food supply. Even more recently we began to eat the vast amounts of highly processed and refined (highly glycemic loading) foods that now make up the bulk of the modern diet. 


 


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