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Pop evo-psych stories are a marketing strategy for diets, not a real reason to follow one. Look at the paleo diet - which apparently promotes the ancestral state of malnourishment and dehydration, on the basis of an evo-psych story.
Diets are best evaluated by testing them, not by telling memorable stories about their origins.
Why evo-psych? Psychology has nothing to do with that.
Diets are, of course, evaluated by testing, but Roberts goes further and makes an explanation of his diet, and whether this explanation is consistent from evolutionary perspective is a relevant question.
Or, in my view, not as far, by promoting an almost totally-untested diet.