Palio Diet Included Carbs Too For Early Human’s Brain Development: Finding

High in meat, fish and vegetables, it largely excludes dairy and cereal or anything else that emerged in the agricultural revolution, arguing that it was a protein-rich regime that fuelled massive brain growth for early humans. Our ancestors evolved genes that could help with breaking down sugar, and once they started cooking plants with starch, it made them much more digestible and nutritious.

Experts acknowledged that the new study placed the possibility that carbohydrates played a role in human evolution, adds the Times. Instead, it is argued that it was due to a high protein diet.

But new research has called into question the popular diet’s very foundation, revealing carbs were an important part of human evolution.

Many think of the Paleolithic diet as a remarkably efficient one at the present time as well, as it is considered that what used to be good for our metabolisms back in the Old Stone Age would be good for us nowadays too.

Moreover, starch is a naturally abundant carbohydrate found primarily in seeds, fruits and roots of plants, for instance in potatoes, corn, wheat and rice, commonly prepared as a tasteless powder.

“Palaeolithic humans would not have evolved on today’s “Paleo” diet”, study author Jennie Brand-Miller told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Palaeontologist Darren Curnoe from the University of New South Wales says evidence from the Palaeolithic era contradict the aims of the Paleo diet.

Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, said the diet could help people lose weight through calorie restriction but eating a more balanced diet was sensible.

The main idea of Prof. Because these plants grow underground, they were likely a key source of nutrition for our gathering forebears, who could dig them up as needed, the researchers say, and probably hunted much less than once thought.

Professor Thomas argues “it was a combination of the invention of cooking and the emergence of starch-digesting enzymes in the saliva and pancreas that allowed the rapid growth” of the human brain. But bear in mind that even the premise of the paleo diet is a bit off. It seems that early man did not steer clear of carbohydrates at all.

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