
In their recent paper, Drs. Turner and Thompson1 question whether the assumption of a Paleolithic life as the human standard is complete because of its “relying primarily on genetic understandings of the human diet.” According to the authors, the Paleolithic assumption focuses too much on “a single model of human ancestral diets” and on “cultural evolution outpacing genetic evolution” as a “fundamental cause of disease in the modern world,” thereby “resulting in an incomplete view of the flexibility and variability in human dietary behavior and health in the past and present.” We would like to comment on several statements of Drs. Turner and Thompson as follows: 1. Despite the “incomplete view,” all interventions with a Paleolithic-type diet have shown favorable effects, as also noted by the authors, and were even superior to Mediterranean and diabetic diets with regard to cardiovascular disease risk factors, glucose tolerance, and appetite and body weight regulation.2–6 2. A basic misunderstanding may come from the following sentence: “Fetal imprinting and other epigenetic processes during development underscore the importance of the fetal environment in shaping long-term body composition and metabolic health …
Feeding Behavior, ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE, LACTASE PERSISTENCE, Biological Evolution, EVOLUTION, Diet, INDIVIDUALS, CALORIE, CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS, Humans, MEDITERRANEAN-LIKE DIET, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Feeding Behavior, ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE, LACTASE PERSISTENCE, Biological Evolution, EVOLUTION, Diet, INDIVIDUALS, CALORIE, CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS, Humans, MEDITERRANEAN-LIKE DIET, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 2 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
