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1. Introduction
2. Talk topics
3. Human origins (1)
4. Human origins (2)
5. Genetic distances - human and gorillas
6. Humans are genetic Stone-Agers (1)
7. Humans are genetic Stone-Agers (2)
8. Contemporary humans live unnaturally
9. Discordance hypothesis postulate
10. Ancestral nutrition (1)
11. Ancestral nutrition (2)
12. Hunter-gatherer energy sources
13. American energy sources
14. Ancestral nutrition - data sources
15. Hunter-gatherer subsistence from animals
16. Late Paleolithic macronutrients (1)
17. Wild game vs. choice beef steak
18. Late Paleolithic macronutrients (2)
19. Game animal fat
20. Fat intake: % dietary energy
21. Wild game fat content
22. Trans fatty acids
23. Daily cholesterol intake
24. Comparative serum cholesterol levels
25. Total PUFA consumption
26. Differences in dietary omega 6 and 3 ratios
27. Dietary protein
28. Protein as % of dietary energy
29. Dietary protein intake
30. Protein intake and disease
31. Dietary carbohydrate: % total energy then and now
32. Refined carbohydrate and dental health
33. Fruit and vegetable consumption: % total energy
34. Phytochemicals
35. Apparent risk reduction: 18 different cancer types
36. Daily fiber intake
37. Dietary fiber intake
38. Daily energy intake
39. Subsistence efficiency (1)
40. Subsistence efficiency (2)
41. Triceps skinfold thickness in young males
42. Comparative body mass indices
43. Vitamin intake
44. Vitamin D from sunlight (1)
45. Vitamin D from sunlight (2)
46. Mineral intake
47. Sodium and potassium
48. Calcium intake
49. Calcium sources
50. Recommended nutrient intake
51. Acid-base balance, then and now
52. The acidosis hypothesis
53. Current implications
54. Food industry successes: availability and safety
55. A food science weakness
56. Girth of a nation
57. Diabetes
58. Hypertension prevalence in the US
59. No decline in coronary herart disease
60. Cancer mortality rates
61. Healthy people 2000: 1998-99 progress review
62. Contradictions in research
63. Kuhnian paradigm (1)
64. Kuhnian paradigm (2)
65. Paradigms and science (1)
66. Paradigms and science (2)
67. Health promotion and disease prevention (1)
68. Health promotion and disease prevention (2)
69. Health promotion and disease prevention (3)
70. We are genetic Stone-Agers
71. Conclusions (1)
72. Conclusions (2)

Topics Covered

• Human evolution
• Contemporary genetic-lifestyle discordance
• Ancestral nutrition as a model for the present
• Current American nutrition
• Successes (life expectancy) and failures ('afflictions of affluence')
• The paradigm concept

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Series:

• Evolution and Medicine

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Eaton, S.B. (2020, August 16). The original human diet: what was it and should it be a model for contemporary nutrition? [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 19, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/ZGYC2237.
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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Reviewed on August 16, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. S. Boyd Eaton has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.