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Account For Access Before Blaming Diet
- Consider socioeconomic status when judging diet outcomes; access and money drive many health differences.
- Don't assume fad-diet benefits are intrinsic when people switching diets can also afford better food and time.
No Single Hunter-Gatherer Diet
- There is no single “hunter-gatherer” diet; intake varied dramatically by region and season.
- Using one imagined ancestral diet as a universal health guide is scientifically unsound.
Huey Diet Is High-Meat But Not Ideal
- Evans describes the Huey people, who get about 75% of calories from meat and still face serious health and survival challenges.
- Their diet includes species unavailable in modern grocery stores and reflects ecological constraints.