Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt, reports new study in journal Science, which suggests the real “paleo diet” included lots of roasted vegetables rich in carbohydrates, similar to modern potatoes.

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There were many "paleo" era diets, and the modern language about this (ie "the paleo diet") is just an advertising concept to push unhealthy diets of eating animal corpses.

But not all these very old diets were healthy, eg eskimos:

Eskimos have high rates of cardiovascular disease. And they always have- even hundreds of years ago - which we know because frozen bodies found of eskimo people had cardiovascular disease.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6N8CJ_Wy9c&t=5m30s

Protein and cancer.

  • "High-Protein Diet Raises Cancer Risk As Much As Smoking. People who eat a high-protein diet during middle age are more likely to die of cancer than those who eat less protein, a new study finds"

-- https://www.livescience.com/43839-too-much-protein-help-cancers-grow.html