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How do we know that? In modern days people don’t usually get the sort of diseases you mentioned until they are old, and cavemen in general didn’t get anywhere near that old. Yes, there are people out there getting arthritis or what have you at younger ages, but I would blame that on obesity more than anything else. Certainly, being obese is not healthy, but is anyone arguing that it is? And if you remove obesity from the picture, how is the caveman healthier?

That said, I agree with a lot of the paleo diet stuff I have read, except those that are big proponents of cutting grains out of your diet entirely. Most of the advice in this article is common sense (or at least should be, though I suppose with so many fat people maybe it isn’t).

The problem with all of this is that it is the cavemen themselves who adapted out of their lifestyle that we so highly value today. They created shoes, they created other things to make life easier. This is like hearing a caveman write an article talking about his wussy neighbors who are using stone now instead of wooden tools. The lazy pansies!

Looking back to an ancient culture isn’t always the best answer. Yet, we can certainly learn from them. We don’t need to become savages to do this. Let’s just not put the cavemen on the pedestal. It’s too easy to do that.