The ‘Caveman Diet’ Is a Lie. Here’s the Truth About Carbs.
Modern diet culture invokes the ‘caveman diet’ to justify restricting carbs, but the evolutionary record suggests our ancestors’ breakthrough was consuming more sugar, not less. The popular hunter-centric paleo narrative erases the women and children who gathered fruit and supplied the caloric foundation for human evolution. The real ancestral lesson isn’t ‘eat meat’ — it’s ‘move constantly, then eat sugar.’