23
Early human ancestors didn’t regularly eat meat
(www.sciencenews.org)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
23 points (89.7% liked)
Science
16533 readers
20 users here now
Subscribe to see new publications and popular science coverage of current research on your homepage
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
Biologically we're not meant anything. We do with what we've got. And for most people, three meals a day works out pretty well. It's just convention.
Meal frequency has been linked to insulin sensitivity in plenty of research.
Don't get too hung up on certain words, I just meant within the scope of how we evolved; our bodily systems are better suited to doing certain things in a certain way. The agricultural revolution happened around 10,000 BCE, yet gluten sensitivity is a very common affliction.