How different we really are, physiologically, from our recent and our distant ancestors, is still a matter of huge debate. There have certainly been some adaptations, like the ability to digest milk and the ability to tolerate grains. Some folks insist that the best, healthiest diet is the diet your own ancestors ate - like, if you're Polynesian, you should be eating coconut and fish, and if you're Asian, you should be eating fish and seaweed and rice, and if you're European you should be eating, I dunno, turnips and borscht.

I don't know where that leaves me. My family migrated too much. I can trace them back to Poland, but my dad did DNA tests that showed we're related to a family from Spain, and the Spanish Jews might have been in Italy first, but in the Middle East before that, and it just gets ridiculous.

this diet coke was clearly about to attck me, so I saved myself. and that thai food earlier, it was plotting.

I a trying not to be a grump today, but AM SUCH A GRUMP. omg I am sick of me.

I was really happy in general for many hours in a row yesterday. today? nsm.

There's plenty of evidence that humans became less healthy with the advent of agriculture, but I don't think you can simplify it that much. Agriculture and civilization go hand in hand; and civilization frequently means the development of classes. The lower class would get the cheapest food, which would be the corn or potatoes grown in mass quantities.

There's certainly evidence that humans ate grains before agriculture. To begin with, why the hell would they go to a lot of trouble to grow better versions of something they didn't eat? Also, there are historical hunter-gatherers that harvested and stored large amounts of grains.

They could have had a fairly steady supply of fruit through the warm months, if they traveled in a circuit based on when different things ripen.

I a trying not to be a grump today, but AM SUCH A GRUMP. omg I am sick of me.

I'd high-five you, but I'm too goddamn cranky. I am really, REALLY glad I said I was working from home today, even if the corporate VPN is thwarting me. Because I am not fit to be out around people. I'm going to sulk with my work laptop and watch every version of Dracula I own.

msbelle, watch NPH's opening number from the Tonys. I want to watch it every day.

I would, for the next fifteen minutes, have to power to smite.

I will smite judiciously, but, seriously QUARTER OF AN HOUR.

cannot see the you tube at work, will watch once at home, or tomorrow, today I may just get dinner and fall asleep.

I am totally good with eating fish and rice and seaweed, but a) I live in the desert. Seriously, it is a long way to any fish that isn't trout. And b) I could afford to eat the carbs of rice if I were a fisherman, who eked out a living by the mercy of the sea and had the resulting lean sinewy build.

Instead I loll around a lot. It is not a rice-conducive lifestyle.

Agreed theoretically except for the huge health costs related to unhealthy eating of all stripes that we all pay for.

Agreed theoretically, except for how problematical it is to define "healthy eating". I think animal fats are healthy and I have much evidence on my side. Other people claim animal fats will kill you and they claim to have much evidence on their side. I'm sure someone would tell me I'm contributing to huge health costs related to unhealthy eating because I eat bacon and eggs and steak instead of cereal and fat-free everything, despite that my physicals show that I'm healthy.

I imagine the Crossfit helped a great deal as well. There's lots of evidence that healthy habits help the people engaged in them become healthier.

CrossFit helped indeed, but the change started with her Paleo diet. It was only because she felt so much better eating that way that she was able to get into the extreme workouts of CrossFit. (Seriously. I tried it. It's HARD exercise. I'm not sure it's actually not damaging, to work out that hard almost every day.)

I don't know where that leaves me. My family migrated too much. ...

Seriously. And what if you're, say, half Asian and half European? Whose traditional diet do you follow? It doesn't make much sense.

There's plenty of evidence that humans became less healthy with the advent of agriculture, but I don't think you can simplify it that much. Agriculture and civilization go hand in hand; and civilization frequently means the development of classes.

Exactly this, and civilization and agriculture leads to a lot of people living on top of each other in the same place all the time, which leads to endemic diseases that nomads and small tribes of H/Gs don't have to deal with. (They have OTHER diseases to deal with.)

I am not cranky. No. I just went out and bought ice cream, and it's sitting in the fridge calling to me in a sultry voice. Soon I will give in and eat it, and its non-Paleo-ness will be delicious.