Article
Beyond the Paleolithic prescription: incorporating diversity and flexibility in the study of human diet evolution.
Nutrition reviews - 1 Aug 2013
Turner Bethany L, Thompson Amanda L
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary paradigms of human health and nutrition center on the evolutionary discordance or "mismatch" model in which human bodies, reflecting adaptations established in the Paleolithic era, are ill-suited to modern industrialized diets, resulting in rapidly increasing rates of chronic metabolic disease. Though this model remains useful, its utility in explaining the evolution of human dietary tendencies is...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Diet
- Feeding Behavior
- Genetic Variation
- Health Status
- Humans
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
- Nutritional Status