The chain of urls developing from that one i found on the Paleofood List is leading to a lot of very interesting stuff. This one is an article in the Amer J Clinical Nutrition from 2005, titled "Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century".
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Here is a short quote from the abstract:
"... In particular, food staples and food-processing procedures introduced during the Neolithic and Industrial Periods have fundamentally altered 7 crucial nutritional characteristics of ancestral hominin diets: 1) glycemic load, 2) fatty acid composition, 3) macronutrient composition, 4) micronutrient density, 5) acid-base balance, 6) sodium-potassium ratio, and 7) fiber content. The evolutionary collision of our ancient genome with the nutritional qualities of recently introduced foods may underlie many of the chronic diseases of Western civilization."
Great stuff. Hope you all enjoy it as much as i have.
PeggyM
