jacob_cannell comments on Rational Health Optimization - Less Wrong

20 Post author: jacob_cannell 18 September 2010 07:47PM

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 20 September 2010 07:55:08PM 1 point [-]

What part about "what ancient humans ate is probably both untrue and irrelevant"? I mean we don't know exactly what range of foods they ate, but we have pretty good ideas.

The important point here is that the evolutionary diet/lifestyle theory correctly predicted a large swath of specific effects, now validated. Undue attention? You might as well argue against evolution.