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Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 24 May 2013 09:49:24PM *  0 points [-]

From an evolutionary standpoint, legumes, milk, and grains are "artificial" food, at least for humans. Agriculture is a recent thing. Would you also endorse the Paleolithic diet movement?

(I do actually endorse the paleolithic diet as probably optimal at the moment and I agree with your central point - I just want to point out that even unprocessed modern diets are already rather unnatural.)

Comment author: Prismattic 25 May 2013 01:29:07AM 0 points [-]

Although agriculture is only about 10,000 years old, humans have been gathering and eating wild grains for 30,000.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 25 May 2013 01:50:50AM *  1 point [-]

Which is an order of magnitude less than the 200,000 years that we've been anatomically modern - although who is to say that they didn't gather wild grains back then, too.

Of course, even 10,000 years is more than enough time for evolution to change us.