Tunajaribu kwa gharama zote kujua muundo wa lishe hii inayofaa kutoshea mahitaji yetu ya maumbile. Lakini je! Usanifishaji wa ulimwengu wa lishe ya kisasa haungefunika uso wetu? Je! Inaweza kuwa kweli kwamba kulikuwa na serikali moja tu wakati huo? Uwezekano mkubwa sio. Kwa mtaalam wa magonjwa ya akili, Jean-Denis Vigne, hakuna shaka. ” Paleolithic imeenea kwa kipindi kikubwa zaidi ya zaidi ya miaka milioni 2. Walakini, wakati huu, hali ya hewa ilitofautiana sana: kwamba mtu anafikiria vipindi vya glaciation au ya joto! Hii inamaanisha kuwa rasilimali inayopatikana ya chakula, iwe ya asili ya mimea au wanyama, pia zimebadilika. [Kwa kuongezea], haipaswi kusahaulika kuwa katika kipindi hiki spishi kadhaa za hominids pia zilifuatana ambazo zilikuwa na tabia tofauti za kulisha kutoka kwa kila mmoja… ”

Kulingana na nakala iliyochapishwa mnamo 2000 katika Jarida la Amerika la Lishe ya Kliniki, lishe iliyopendekezwa na Loren Cordain hailingani kabisa na kile babu zetu wote walikula. Wengine walikuwa, kwa mfano, wenye kula mimea zaidi kuliko ulaji, uwindaji labda ulikuwa mkubwa tu katika idadi ya watu wanaoishi kwenye miinuko ya juu. Kwa kuongezea, wanaume wa kihistoria hawakuwa na uhuru wa kuchagua kile walichokula: walikula kile kilichopatikana, ambayo ni wazi ilitofautiana sana kutoka mahali hadi mahali, na mara kwa mara kwa mwaka.

Utafiti wa Paleo-anthropolojia^1-9 (asante kwa alama zilizopo kwenye mifupa au enamel ya meno) ilionyesha ajabu utofauti wa tabia za kula wa wakati huo, shahidi wa kubadilika kuruhusiwa na shirika. Neanderthals wa Ulaya, kwa mfano, walikuwa na lishe yenye nyama, ilhali Homo Sapiens, spishi zetu, waliweza kulisha bidhaa mbalimbali zaidi, kama vile dagaa au mazao ya asili ya mimea kulingana na eneo lao. .

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