Is a Paleolithic Age Diet an Optimal Diet for Modern Human Beings?
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Background: For anthropologists and archaeologists, studying and theorizing about what pre-agricultural peoples ate has been of interest for many decades. In 1985, a physician and an anthropologist from Emory University published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine entitled " Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications, " which brought the issue more into the arena of the healthcare world.
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TRENDS in Sport Sciences 2014 Vol.21 No.4
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