If you learn to simulate the nutrition of what the human diet has been through 99.99% of our genetic history, there is growing scientific evidence that it will alleviate obesity, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, arthritis, many auto-immune diseases, osteoporosis, rickets, poor health in older age, most all "chronic diseases", "diseases of civilization", asthma, acne, and more. Still existing hunters and gatherers on their traditional diets, and our hunter-gatherer ancestors, rarely have had these health problems. Not coincidentally, wild mammals are also void of these problems - while their domesticated counterparts are not (e.g., dogs, cats, and cattle).

The main foods that are being shown as unnatural, or eaten in unnatural quantities, are grains/grain products, sugars/sugar substitutes, transfats, Omega 6 fatty acid rich animal foods, most industrial vegetable oils, and of course, processed foods.

There have been many "hunter gatherer diets", and thus, foods you can eat. However, all are within certain nutritional constraints which we evolved on over millions of years - and so our "body machinery" will only operate optimally within those nutritional constraints.   They produce specific metabolic/physiologic human responses. Some ancestral groups were very plant food oriented, but others were very animal food oriented. Our genes and physiology are still that of a full-fledged omnivorous hunter gatherer - having changed only an infinitesimal amount from what they were when each of our ancestors ate a hunter-gatherer diet.

This website's mission is chronicling the emerging scientific information, centered around the specific historical disciplines that are pertinent and that ultimately define the "diet". [See the Evolution Diet Chronicles menu to the left]. The chronicles are to be compiled over time as a free resource for professional researchers, science writers and individuals interested for their personal or family health.

An evolution-based nutrition is increasingly being found to maximize human health - with related details progressively increasing from medical and nutritional scientists. It is not yet the dominant paradigm in nutritional science, but there is growing evidence from multiple disciplines that it is the correct one ... and arguably the most robust application of the new field called "evolutionary medicine".