One of my readers recommended the blog of Art De Vany. Art is a Professor of Economics at UCI and he has been following the guidelines of what he calls ‘evolutionary fitness’ for twenty years. It seems that it’s working out quite well for him. He is writing a book about the topic: the first chapter on Art’s book Evolutionary Fitness.

Art also has some theories on the dangers of endurance training that I’m not really sure I agree with, but they are intriguing. I’m definitely open to new ideas. He writes about a good deal of other topics as well.

Anyways, Art sums up a lot of the ideas concerning an evolutionary diet elegantly, so he probably explains it much better than I can:

It begins with the premise that our bodies and minds are adapted to an ancient environment that passed more than 10,000 years ago. We evolved as hunter-gatherers over at least three million years and that lifeway shapes our attributes, behaviors, and capabilities as human beings. It is by understanding the hunter-gatherer adaptation and incorporating the activity and eating patterns of our ancestral lifeway with the findings of the best of modern science that we can live a natural and healthy life in a modern world that is very different from the one in which human beings evolved.

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