John Griswold
1 min readOct 10, 2021

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I notice that you ignore all the points I made. If you compare the modernity of the era of husbandry and agriculture to Erectus, Habilis. or even Neanderthal then they seem very modern indeed, but on a more fundamental level the hypothesized vitamin A poisoning of a person who lived 1.7 million years ago as a critique of the modern practice of paleo is specious in the extreme. The same is true for the dangers to Neanderthal of procuring meat, unless of course those modern paleos are attempting to take down large game with stone points and lack the food safety of refrigeration.

If possible lifestyle and food procurement caused disease is the issue then logic demands an examination of diseases common in agricultural societies as well. You have to include the emergence of dental carries when grains became staples, the prevalence of infections diseases encouraged by the population density of agricultural economies , not to mention obesity, cancer, and heart disease. Diabetes is strongly supposedlu documented in Egypt more than 3000 years ago and in India over 1500 years ago.

These seem to be far stronger critiques of modern diet, given their prevalence right up to modern times, than the dangers or vagaries of obtaining the kind of diet that you point out was that of our ancestors going back for over a million years.

You simply haven't made any kind of persuasive argument.

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John Griswold
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