“So easy a caveman can do it!”, proclaims the Geico commercial. Well, here is some news for Geico. An article about the Paleolithic diet (see ‘Consumption of Trace Elements and Minerals by Preagricultural Humans’ by Eaton and Eaton in ‘Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements And Minerals’) tells us that cavemen were far from stupid: in fact, they were smart eaters. Their diet can tell us what is wrong with the modern one.Meat was very important. They especially ate the organs, bone marrow and brains of animals, which are the most nutrient-dense parts. They also ate wild plants and berries but rarely grains. Stone Agers lived in small groups as nomadic hunters and gatherers. The time and energy needed to gather and mill grains into digestible forms with primitive technology was not worthwhile for them.The authors list the nutritional advantages Stone Agers had over modern people.They got their energy from foods with far more nutrients per unit of energy than do modern humans. They consumed no ‘empty calories’: energy intake without associated nutrients such as you find with soda, sugar and white flour.They probably took in two to 8 times more minerals than us. […]

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