Flashback Friday: The Problem with the Paleo Diet Argument
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-01-17

The Paleolithic period represents just the last two million years of human evolution. What did our bodies evolve to eat during the first 90% of our time on Earth?

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