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Originally Posted by Silock

What do you mean disputing? There's nothing in article disputing that we need meat. It supports eating meat, just the healthy, free-range kind. And it says avoid bad foods like trans-fats. Nothing new or revolutionary there. And that we need an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of 4:1 (although I believe it should be closer to 3:1)

In any case, I agree with most of the premise of the article, but I don't think that person has any clue about how we actually evolved. Why are humans the only purely bipedal primates on the planet? One reason is because running on two legs is efficient. This allowed us to develop a unique form of hunting called "persistence" hunting. We wore down our prey. They couldn't run the long distances we could. Why would we need to evolve that type of hunting style if we only ate small animals? Small animals don't run that far for that long. Only big game does. And with big game comes fat, even if their stores of fat were low. Yes, humans ate small animals, but only as "snacks." Big game was always the priority and still is.

I agree with eating free-range stuff. That's what I do unless it's completely unavoidable. And I also agree that people eat too much of everything, including fats. But it's much harder to overeat on fat than it is on carbs. And it doesn't take much fat to get sufficient calories from.

I didn't say that article disputed it. I just said that there are people who dispute it (look up what vegetarians say about our evolution). Anyway, it's not really an argument that I feel like having. I'm sure that both of us eat healthier than 99% of the population of the USA.